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Cran Dalgety hopes Franco Sinatra (Captaintreacherous) won’t reach his peak in the Group Three Sally-Ann Donnelly Hannon Memorial on Sunday. The pacer goes into the New Zealand Cup lead-up following a slashing fifth in the recent New Brighton Cup at Addington. That outing was Franco Sinatra’s first since he was given a let-up following an […]
With so much going on in the harness racing industry it is easy to miss some of the good stuff. So to help you keep tabs here are the five things you should try and catch this week 1: Hannon Memorial: The decent-sized open class spring fields continue and this time bring together some of the […]
Akuta (Bettor’s Delight), the reigning New Zealand two-year-old of the year, and his co-trainer Mark Purdon made a big statement when taking out the time-honoured Hannon Memorial on Sunday afternoon (Sep. 18) in Oamaru. While the 2600m journey was a sedate affair (3:20.1) and the second slowest Hannon since 2005, the manner in which in […]
Three year old Akuta (Bettor’s Delight) showed all the signs of a harness racing champion in the Hannon Memorial at Oamaru today when he sat parked and held out the late charge of Alta Wiseguy. AKUTA REPLAY “He tried really hard all the way up the straight and the other horse had a lovely […]
By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Fifty years ago WAG didn’t have the connotations it does today. And in 1971 the horse with the shortest name beat the short-priced favourite Arapaho to win the Hannon Memorial. On October 25 on the grass at Oamaru, Wag was trained and driven by Ted Lowe from Mid […]
