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Birdsong (Huntsville – Dizygotic Lass) showed exactly why owner Ben Settree holds her in such high regard at Menangle last night, sweeping around the field to win the Nutrien Equine NSW Breeders Challenge 2yo Fillies Semi Final 1 by 9.2 metres. Trained by KerryAnn Morris and driven by Robert Morris, the bay filly started the […]
Rose Of Juliana (American Ideal – Countess Kaeleigh) is a 7-year-old harness racing mare bred, owned, trained and driven by Arthur Clancy. On Monday evening at Canberra the 83 year old Clancy drove Rose Of Juliana to an upset victory as the $61 outsider It was the 7yo mares 131st race start and she had […]
Harnesslink is delighted to welcome John Tapp OAM to its team, delivering exclusive Australian harness racing news, stories and insights to a global audience. ▶ Watch Tappy’s welcome message https://harnesslink.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/welcome_tappy.mp4 John “Tappy” Tapp is one of Australia’s most celebrated race callers and storytellers. Across a career spanning more than five decades, he called over 50,000 […]
A year ago, Jye Coney was best known around Bathurst as one of two teenage mates sitting near the top of the NSW drivers’ harness racing premiership. Now he is a regular in the biggest races in the country. Since March, the young reinsman has driven the champion mare Captains Mistress in the $1 million […]
While the country’s best open class pacers line up in the SEN Victoria Cup at Melton on Saturday night, the most popular of them all will be racing at home in Brisbane. Leap To Fame (Bettors Delight – Lettucereason) has drawn barrier two in the seven-horse Somerset Farms Open Pace over 2138m at Albion Park, […]
Enjoy Life (Always B Miki – Perfect Life) has won 10 of his 11 harness racing starts, and on Saturday night he showed he can win the hard way too. The Emma Stewart-trained colt took out the first heat of the Woodlands Stud Victoria Derby at Melton by a half head, booking his place in […]
Emma Stewart dominated the Victoria Derby and Oaks heats at Melton on Saturday night, training four of the five winners on a feature-packed harness racing card a week out from the Victoria Cup. Stewart won two of the three Woodlands Stud Victoria Derby heats with Enjoy Life and Brooklyn Dan, and both Prydes Easifeed Victoria […]
Watch live video of the card of harness racing on Saturday, Oct. 10 at Woodbine Mohawk Park featuring eight $350,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Super Finals. For complete race entries, click here. From Harnesslink Media
Soho Trump (Captain Crunch – Aussie Made Lombo) heads into the second heat of the Woodlands Stud Victoria Derby at Melton on Saturday night on the back of two dominant front-running harness racing wins. Trainer Mick Stanley considered skipping the Derby for a Western Australian campaign in late September, but the colt has officially accepted […]
Two years ago, Ben Said sat behind a young pacer in trackwork for the first time and fell for him. Now The Last Trip (Poster Boy – Fususi) is one of the hottest names in Eureka betting, rated a $4.50 second favourite behind Loucasso for the $1.5 million TAB Eureka at Menangle on November 21. […]
Canadian raider Redland Rocket Man (Bulldog Hanover) and Adios champion Al Papi (Papi Rob Hanover) booked their places in the $550,000 Little Brown Jug final with contrasting elimination harness victories at Delaware on Thursday (Sept. 24). REDLAND ROCKET MAN REPLAY Redland Rocket Man produced the faster of the two heats, storming home from last […]
The stage is set for the 81st edition of the $650,000 Little Brown Jug, with 11 three-year-old pacers chasing one of harness racing’s most prestigious titles at the Delaware County Fair on Thursday (September 24). The third leg of pacing’s Triple Crown headlines a 19-race programme, with two $50,000 elimination heats scheduled as races 15 […]
Harnesslink will have a slot in the 2027 $1.25 million TABtouch Nullarbor, with the full list of 10 slot holders for next year’s feature now confirmed. Harnesslink, represented by Mick Harvey, is one of three first-time slot holders for the April 23 event, alongside Gloucester Park’s Michael Radley and Solid Earth Pty Ltd, represented by […]
Young reinswoman Tasmyn Potter produced the greatest performance of her rapidly rising harness racing career at Riverina Paceway on Friday, driving six winners from just seven drives in an extraordinary display of skill, patience and versatility. Potter dominated the Wagga program, winning with Floppa, Warieda Boy, Bay Of Fires, Hezaflashone, Day Two and Jaccka Evan NZ. Her only other drive, $31 outsider Yella, […]
Harness racing fans can watch live video from Woodbine Mohawk Park as many of North America’s best older horses clash on a huge stakes card. The program is headlined by the $705,000 Canadian Pacing Derby, $620,000 Maple Leaf Trot and $255,000 Milton Stakes. The Canadian Pacing Derby field is listed below. $705,000 Canadian Pacing […]
Mighty Logan (Creatine) made an immediate impact on his return to harness racing with a powerful finishing burst to capture the $37,900 Group 3 ITM Ordeal Trotting Cup at Addington on Friday night. The 2600m handicap feature developed into a race of constantly changing positions, with several runners taking their turn at the head of […]
The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) produced a devastating turn of speed to win the $35,800 Group 3 Avon City Ford New Brighton Cup at Addington on Friday night, securing himself a guaranteed start in the 2026 New Zealand Trotting Cup. The Bob Butt-trained pacer was sent out a dominant harness racing favourite for the 2600m standing […]
The Queen’s Gambit (Captain Crunch) made the perfect start to her Australian harness racing campaign with a dominant victory at Menangle on Tuesday. Owned and part-bred by Mick Harvey, the beautifully bred three-year-old filly was having her first Australian start for leading trainer Jason Grimson and driver Cameron Hart. Despite starting from the outside of […]
New Zealand-bred mare Francent N (Vincent) continued her flying start to North American harness racing with a sharp victory in the $50,000 Fillies and Mares Open Pace at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night. The six-year-old made it three consecutive wins when she defeated a quality field in 1:48.1, providing an ideal lead-up to next […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Live video is available as many of North America’s leading harness racing stars converge on Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania for the track’s biggest program of the year, Sun Stakes Saturday. A massive $2.3 million USD in purses will be on offer across the 14-race all-stakes card, which gets underway at 2:30 […]
The ever-popular Metro Series is back at Alexandra Park after taking a break since June, with heats set down for Friday, August 28. Two $15,000 heats go around that night, four heats in total: R35-40 for three-year-olds and older pacers, and R35-45 for three-year-olds and older trotters. The top five from each heat qualify, if nominated, for two $30,000 Finals back at the Park on Friday, September 4. Win both a heat and the final and that final runs penalty-free. The series remains a cornerstone of HRNZ’s Look North strategy, launched in 2024 to build up racing in the north. Viscount Mackendon won the last Metro Trotters Final at the Park on June 26, driven by Crystal Hackett for trainers […]
Monica Banca didn’t grow up around harness racing. She grew up around a father, Tor Eriksen, who happened to be good friends with a standardbred trainer in Norway, and that was enough to hook her on the athletic animals that would end up shaping her whole career. Norway has a longer harness racing history than […]
Harrisburg, PA. The United States Harness Writers Association has elected owner-breeder Al Libfeld, trainer Åke Svanstedt and USTA president Russell Williams to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, the sport’s highest honour, in an announcement Thursday (Aug. 6). USHWA also voted the late Barry Lefkowitz and longtime industry writer Kim Rinker into the Communicators Hall […]
The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Saturday, August 8 is the place to be, as the iconic harness racing track stages one of the sport’s biggest days of the year, headlined by the $1 million Grade 1 Hambletonian. The 16-race Hambletonian Day program gets underway at 12 noon (EDT) and features a star-studded […]
