Two junior drivers – Emma Adams and Olivia Thomas both of whom work for Tisbury trainer Kirstin Green, will be in action on Thursday at Ascot Park. Twenty three year old Emma Adams will be having her first drive. “It’s been a long time coming. I got a concussion at the end of last year […]
Fir’s (Creatine) win at Gore yesterday was special on a number of fronts. Her success came on a day the Club celebrated its 125th Jubilee, it extends the marvellous record of Fir’s dam Larix and provides local trainer Gay McClymont’s brother Ross Given with his first trotting winner as an owner. In yesterday’s race driver […]
The Southland harness racing community celebrated its successes and achievements for the 2024 season last evening in Invercargill. Captains Mistress (Captaintreacherous) was named Regent Car Courts Southland Horse of the Year. Captains Mistress won four of her eight starts for stakes of $209,515. Owned by Mick Boots and trained By Nathan Williamson, Captains Mistress’s wins […]
Buffy Northstain (Majestic Son) kept Sam Thornley’s Junior Drivers Premiership hopes alive when she won the Ward and Sinclair Limited Trot at Gore today. Trained by Bruce Negus, the six year old mare got back in the running and stormed home late to beat Tinkerbelle. The win was Buffy Northstain’s twelfth and puts Thornley on […]
Southland harness racing trainer Gay McClymont had a night she’ll never forget at Addington last night, winning two races and in a career highlight achieving a Group Two win with her six year old mare Rata (Muscle Mass). In the $60,000 Continental Event Hire Grand Duchess Mares Handicap, driver Jonny Cox got Rata away safely […]
Rata (Muscle Mass) provided Gore trainer Gay McClymont with her first winner in nine years when she narrowly won at the Wyndham Harness Racing Club’s meeting at Cromwell yesterday. Over the thirty years she’s held a licence, McClymont has always had a small number of trotters in training and her seventeen winners have all been […]