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A brilliant drive by Lisa Ryan saw in-form mare Alora (Art Major) win her third race from her past four harness racing starts at Globe Derby Park on Saturday. Coming from gate five on the front row, Ryan had Alora away well and managed to drop into the perfect one-out, one-back position on settling down […]
Brilliant trotter Regal Attire (Muscle Hill) continued his Cups collection with victory in the 2025 Podiatry Care Gawler Hambletonian Trotters Cup (2550m) at Gawler on Monday, March 24. Since coming into the Two Wells stable of trainer Ryan Hryhorec in late 2023, Regal Attire has taken out five Cups for Australia’s most prolific owner Mick […]
Brothers Steven and Michael Byrne have been involved in harness racing for more than 50 years, and their passion is as strong as ever. The Brynes have started 2025 in winning style bringing up a two-state treble on the weekend with horses they bred and own. On Friday, Celestial Zodiac was victorious at Melton in […]
Champion Western Australian harness racing reinsman Gary Hall jnr landed his second Australian Drivers Championship in an exciting 10-race contest at Globe Derby Park on Sunday. A fourth on Jilliby Mistress in the final event was enough to see Hall jnr leapfrog leader Ashleigh Delosa from New South Wales and take the tile by four […]
Port Pirie harness racing trainers, brothers Ryan and Trent Hoare, are excited about the future with their talented three-year-old filly Harro Hill (Art Major). An $11 chance, Harro Hill was given a perfect drive by Lisa Ryan before dashing clear for a five-metre win in the O’Brien’s Meat Pace (1800m) from Tonkawaikon ($4.80) with Resurrects […]
Victorian harness racing driver Allan McDonough has an excellent chance of landing successive winners of the feature $60,000 South Australian Pacing Cup (2645m) at Globe Derby Park this Saturday. And he will be doing it on a pacer which was an unlucky fourth in last year’s version taken out by the Aaron Bain Racing-owned Wheres […]
Impressive three-year-old filly Quick Dip (Downbytheseaside) was a perfect winner of the first running of the $9999 Encipher Stakes (1800m) on the return to harness racing at Globe Derby Park. Formerly the Mermaid Stakes, the race name was changed recently to honour the champion mare Encipher, victor in the first running of the world’s richest […]
Idyllic (Somebeachsomewhere), a Victorian pacer which had not won a race for nearly two years, scored an all-the-way harness racing win in Sunday’s 2024 Pirate Life Brewing & CUB Kapunda Pacing Cup (2610m). Resuming from a break of six months, Idyllic, a drifter from $2.50 to $4.40, led throughout to score a one metre win […]
On Friday morning, Kaela Hryhorec was busy driving heavy machinery in the Adelaide beachside suburb of Semaphore. She took an early minute at lunchtime and headed to the Gawler harness racing meeting to partner Better Be Lively (Bettor’s Delight) to victory in the Cluse Bros Tyrepower Pace (1609m). Hryhorec waited around and made it a […]
The continued rise of Samantha Pascoe in harness racing took another boost at the Gawler meeting on Thursday. Pascoe, 26, drove four winners including the two features. It is the fourth time she has driven four winners at a meeting. Her previous three were all at Globe Derby Park, starting on February 15, 2021, then […]
Star South Australian pacer Artillery (Art Major) returned from a spell in brilliant fashion at Port Pirie on Saturday. Artillery came from fourth at the 400 metre mark to score a three metre harness racing win in the Spencer Motor Company Pace (2050m). The field sprinted home in a brisk 55.8 seconds for the final […]
Talented square gaiter Bishop George (Father Patrick) delivered a lesson to his harness racing opponents at Port Pirie on Saturday. Trained in partnership at Penfield by Jill Neilson and Katie Wilson, Bishop George did it tough but held on to score a photo finish win in the $9,999 2024 Wingate Farm 3YO Trotters Of The […]
The debut harness racing victory by two-year-old Rupert Ross at Globe Derby Park on Saturday proved extremely emotional. While Rupert Ross (Huntsville) stamped himself as a potential star of the future, connections shed a tear over the passing of the horse’s breeder Mark Webster, from Angle Vale. In the first heat of the Kindergarten Stakes […]
