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In the Lincoln Farms Here For The Horse Mobile Pace at Cambridge tonight, northern junior driver Crystal Hackett achieved her 200th win driving the Andrew and Lyn Neal trained Merie Mary (Bettor’s Delight). MERIE MARY REPLAY Crystal told me earlier this week, “I was sitting on 198 for three weeks and I finally got up […]
Last month’s Rowe Cup in which Queen Elida (Love You) finished third, proved to be her last race. The champion trotting mare has now quietly slipped out of the racing spotlight. The New Zealand bred mare carved out a great career in Australia, competing at the highest level. This season Queen Elida became the richest […]
The post-race interviews summed up how special the win by Arcee Phoenix (Trixton) was in the Listed $600,000 The TAB Trot at Cambridge tonight. As sometimes happens in big money races, the script got completely ripped up as both I’m Ready Jet and Oscar Bonavena broke in the score up. “It wasn’t ideal. The ones […]
Australasian harness racing fans and trotting breeders have been spoilt for choice in the last fifteen years with a huge variety of the best modern bloodlines from Europe and North America at their disposal. The impact on the breed has been immense seeing champions from French line sires such as Monbet, Queen Elida and Just […]
When Aldebaran Zeus won harness racing’s Breeders Crown 3YO Colts and Geldings’ Final at Melton in November he became the second winner of the prestigious Group 1 race bred and reared at Aldebaran Park stud, Nagambie. He joined Kyvalley Kyrie who took out the Breeders Crown 2YO Fillies’ Final five years earlier. Aldebaran Zeus and […]
Talented American-bred, NSW-trained and Victorian-owned trotting mare Aldebaran Revani has taken all before her in a brief campaign in Sydney. Now the four-year-old is set to be unleashed south of the border in search of the rich offerings for trotters in January and February. Her ambitious schedule includes two of the gems of Harness Racing […]
Prominent Victorian breeder Duncan McPherson, who last year became the first ever Australian vendor at a harness racing yearling sale in North America, will break new ground at the sales arena in Sweden next month. McPherson, the principal of Aldebaran Park, Nagambie (Vic.) is the joint breeder with giant Swedish breeding conglomerate Menhammer Stuteri of […]
Aldebaran Park principal Duncan McPherson says victory in this weekend’s $1million Hambletonian would sit right up there with the greatest achievements he could accomplish in harness racing. Three-year-old colt Sonofamistery (Muscle Hill-Mistery Woman) was jointly bred by Aldebaran Park and Millstream Stable, and qualified for the iconic US race with a fourth placing in an […]
