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After finishing fifth in the Lyell Creek Stakes in Auckland in March, the trainers of Bet N Win (What The Hill) decided something was not quite right with their star trotter, so he was unable to defend is Rowe Cup title. Remaining up north, he was sent to the Matamata Vet Clinic where he underwent […]
The stocks of the brilliant, young Love You horse Classic Connection, who is standing at the Goulburn Valley Equine Centre, Shepparton, under the banner of Haras Des Trotteurs, received a massive boost with the results of the Breeders Crown eliminations at Woodbine Mohawk Park, Ontario last Friday (October 17). A very close relative of Classic […]
The Muscle Hill horse E L Titan, who is standing this season at Goulburn Valley Equine, Shepparton under the banner of Haras Des Trotteurs and is available chilled to both Australian and New Zealand breeders, is the top of the class on this year’s North American two-year-old sires’ list based on average earnings per foal. […]
The opportunity to compete in the $4 million QBred For Life scheme with first win bonuses of $14,000, second win bonuses worth $7,500 and third win bonuses of $3,000 and the numerous age classics including the $50,000 QBred Finals for two and three-year-olds, the $25,000 Final for four-year-olds and the $20,700 Springboard Series for two […]
Frozen semen stallions are well and truly making their presence felt on Australian and New Zealand racing and breeding, particularly among the ranks of trotting sires. In fact, four of the ten richest square-gaiters ever bred in the southern hemisphere – Just Believe, I Can Doosit, Muscle Mountain and Queen Elida – were sired by […]
The French bred trotting stallion Classic Connection, who stood his first four harness racing seasons at the stud in NSW and Queensland, is a young sire – he was foaled in 2014 – already well on his way to proving a success with his first small crops racing. He is now standing in Victoria at […]
As the 2025/2026 stud season approaches, we are pleased to share some exciting updates regarding our two stallions standing at Wai Eyre Farm in New Zealand – On A Streak and All Cashed Up. Pat Driscoll, of Yabby Dam Farms / Haras des Trotteurs, and Daryl Brown, of Wai Eyre Farm, have entered into a new partnership aimed at […]
Obtaining the best possible international and local trotting genetics has been the Haras Des Trotteurs/Yabby Dam Farms’ mantra since being founded by Ballarat trotting breeder Pat Driscoll in 2014. In the upcoming breeding season the stud is offering seven chilled stallions and five frozen semen stallions. These stallions combined with YDF consistently breeding 40 to […]
Imported European millionaire trotter Callmethebreeze has officially retired to stud, joining the internationally acclaimed Yabby Dam Farms & Haras des Trotteurs stallion roster in 2025. A son of Trixton, Callmethebreeze retires as a multiple Group 1 winner in both Europe and Australia, with 18 career wins and earnings of $1.777 million. The French-bred seven-year-old was […]
Yabby Dam Farms and Haras des Trotteurs will stand multiple group 1-placed All Cashed Up in New Zealand this year. The newly retired son of French great Ready Cash to stand at Wai Eyre Farms, and will be available to New Zealand breeders via a chilled option. He goes to stud after a racing career in […]
Let me introduce myself. I am Dimitri Ferm – an Italian-based French-bred 6yo trotting entire racing in elite company in Europe. I’m keen for Australians to get to know me and follow my path towards what will hopefully culminate in a start in the Prix De Amerique race at Vincennes in Paris on Sunday, January […]
Harness Racing New Zealand CEO, Brad Steele, incurred a few social media scoffs after the unveiling of The Future Starts Now roadshow when in his maiden address to New Zealand stakeholders, the Queenslander stated that he envisioned a future that would address the exodus of horses crossing the ditch. The line that seemed to attract […]
The Steven McRae-trained Galway Girl (Majestic Son) further added to the harness racing legacy of her maternal family becoming the fifth Group Race winner from her dam, Una Bromac (Live Or Die), when taking out tonight’s G3 $40,000 Haras Des Trotteurs Heather Williams Memorial at Addington Raceway. It was a faultless display from the daughter […]
Harnesslink presents harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America brought to you by Yabby Dam Farms & Racing! Yabby Dam Racing, principal Pat Driscoll’s dream to breed and race world class trotters was born after seeing a billboard on the Champs Elysees in Paris advertising the famous trotting race the […]
The champion Orlando Vici gelding Just Believe provided the jewel of a grand slam of successes in feature trotting races in Victoria this month for stallions on the Haras Des Trotteurs’ roster when he captured the $50,000 The Knight Pistol at the Ballarat Cup meeting. Despite a poor barrier draw and having to sit parked […]
Bird Parker, a triple millionaire harness racing son of Ready Cash and a member of the Haras Des Trotteurs’ sire roster in Victoria, produced the winner of the 120,000 euros Prix de Bretagne in Hussard du Landret at Vincennes, Paris recently. The classic was the first qualifying race for the rich Prix d’Amerique to held […]
New Zealand international Lovemeto has well and truly arrived on the harness racing scene here in Australia with an emphatic victory in his heat of the Haras des Trotteurs Victoria Trotters Derby. The Graeme Rogerson and Dylan Ferguson-trained gelding worked his way to the lead shortly after the start and streaked away to win by […]
What a great weekend for sires on the Haras Des Trotteurs roster! Queen Elida NZ (Love You) and Ollivici NZ (Orlando Vici) started the ball rolling by running 1-2 in the Group 2 $50,000 Australasian Trotting Championship at Melton on Saturday night (Sep 02). It was Queen Elida’s fourth win on end and her 26th […]
Champion harness racing sire Love You, whose semen is available from the Haras Des Trotteurs’ stud in Victoria, left important winners in three different countries last weekend. He sired a feature double at Melton on Saturday night (May 20) with the talented Aroha Koe in the $30,000 Vicbred Platinum Metropolitan Final and the quinella pair […]
The best and brightest trotters from across the nation will share the harness racing spotlight at this year’s Queensland Constellations with the newest Group 1 feature The Great Square now to be run for a purse of $150,000. The increased prize money for the three and four-year-old trotting feature is thanks to a generous three-year […]
The Italian bred three-year-old trotting filly And If It Were True (Charly Du Noyer), who was undefeated in four harness racing starts last season, has been purchased by Ballarat breeder-owner Pat Driscoll, the principal of leading stud Haras Des Trotteurs. Offered by legendary French horseman Philippe Allaire, she was bought for 140,000 euros at an […]
Stallions on the Haras Des Trotteurs’ sire roster at Ballarat produced six harness racing heat winners of the rich Vicbred Super Series. The leading percentage sire Orlando Vici sired a pair of heat winners in the three-year-old Cravache Dor, the nominal favourite for the Group 1 $100,000 Final at Melton on New Year’s Eve, and […]
Harness racing’s Group 1 $103,500 NZ Trotting Derby, run at Addington, was a triumph for Haras Des Trotteurs as their sires Love You and Village Mystic sired the first three placegetters. Nazareth, a lightly raced gelding by Love You, powered home from midfield at the half-mile marker to nip Mystic Max (by Village Mystic) in […]
Tough three-year-old filly Con Grazia Love became third winner of harness racing’s $101,750 NZ Trotting Oaks sired by Love You when she outstayed a top field at Addington on Friday night (Nov. 25). She joins Habibti Ivy (2015) and Habibti (2013) as winners of the Group 1 classic. Starting from outside the second row, Con […]
