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The Tasmanian Derby and Oaks will be held at Hobart on Sunday. Here is our harness racing best bets for the weekend’s most important races. We start off the weekend’s pacing action with Magnificent Storm in the FFA at Gloucester Park on Friday night, quickly followed by the Listed Marathon Handicap over 3309m. At Menangle […]
Shes Allaboutluv ($1.90 fav) handled her harness racing rivals with relative ease when claiming the 2026 Brighton Cup in Hobart on Sunday night. Driver Ethan Arnott settled the mare near the tail of the small field before landing in the one-one near the 1500m after mid-race moves at the front of the field. Arnott drove […]
Despite not winning a race in Hobart on Sunday night, driver Brodie Davis still left the track a winner, claiming the 2026 BOTRA Novice Drivers Series. Davis landed three second placings and a fourth place, being enough to secure the top points. It was the first BOTRA Novice Drivers Series win for the driver, having previously […]
Keayang Zahara (Stuart McCormick Photo) Champion mare Keayang Zahara seeks a 14th Group 1 win in the Just Believe Grand Prix at Melton on Saturday night. Keayang Zahara is $1.04 to capture her 26th win from just 27 starts when she contests the Grand Prix. Her stablemate Jilliby Ballerini looks hardest to beat in the […]
Star four year old Fighter Command (Always B Miki) has scored an entry into this year’s $2.1 million Eureka at Menangle when he toyed with his harness racing rivals to take out the $80,000 Beautide at Hobart on Saturday evening. Repeating his success from last year when a three year old Fighter Command was even […]
Local pacer Jorge Street (Captaintreacherous) surprised the mainland contingent when he scored a determined harness racing win in the Group 1 $150,000 Ladbrokes Tasmania Cup Final at Hobart last night. Perfectly driven by Dylan Ford Jorge Street took the trail behind stablemate co favourite Mydadsaid who was well rated in the lead by Mitch Ford.At […]
Mydadsaid (Sportswriter) was the first horse to qualify for the Group 1 Ladbrokes Tasmania Cup after an all the way harness racing win in the first heat (2579m) in Hobart on Friday night. The Tammy Lanlgey-trained pacer opened at $4.60 on the Tasmanian Official Price before drifting out to $5.50, and he ended up starting the […]
The combined harness and greyhound meeting on Good Friday night in Hobart is fast becoming a Tassie racing tradition, and it’s back again with eight greyhound races and six harness racing events making up this year’s 14-race program. Driver Dylan Ford will be out to continue his excellent start to the season when he takes […]
Longford harness racing trainer-driver Todd Rattray will be out to kick off a big weekend on a winning note in Hobart on Friday night. Rattray has Mallan (Sunshine Beach) and Svitolina Leis (Bettor’s Delight) engaged in the Tasmanian Horse Transport Pace (2090m). Mallen resumes from a spell with Rattray driving from the pole draw. “I […]
The Claremont Cricket Club and the Knights Cricket Club both host their season launch at the Tasmanian Trotting Club’s eight-race harness racing card in Hobart on Friday night (Sep. 29). Driver Dylan Ford sits fourth on the state drivers’ premiership this season with 44 wins, and he has six drives at the meeting, most with […]
Seven-year-old gelding Cool Water Paddy (Ohoka Arizona) ended a run of outs when leading all the way to record a narrow harness racing win in the Young Group Pace (2090m) in Hobart on Sunday night (Sep 24). The well-travelled pacer, who started his racing career in Tasmania, had been out of the winners list since […]
Claiming novice harness racing driver Jack Watson will be looking to end a run of outs, with several chances on the 10-race card in Hobart on Sunday night. At the meeting, Watson has four drives (including an emergency), among them is former Victorian pacer Yorkshire (A Rocknroll Dance), who lines up in the night’s open […]
Trainer-driver Mark Yole is unsure of the plans for Sunday night’s Hobart harness racing winner Buster William (Rock N Roll Heaven). The nine-year-old gelding was sent out the $2.15 favourite and led all the way from his pole draw to win the rating 75 to 105 event (2579m), over Cool Water Paddy and Cullenburn in a mile […]
After being placed in eight metropolitan races across Victoria this year, Major Bronski gelding Kosimo has returned to Tasmania to spell and is back in the care of his harness racing owner Mark Jones. But after a look at the race program, Jones saw a suitable no more than eight-lifetime win race in Hobart on Sunday […]
Jakob White has followed the horses for as long as he can remember and when he started playing football with talented Tasmanian harness racing driver Dylan Ford, he was hooked. “My mum and dad, Simone and Michael, were owners when I was five or six years old,” White said. “From then on I was always […]
Fresh off a brilliant first-up win, six-year-old gelding Jimmy The Irishman (Big Jim) will be looking for his second Tasmanian harness racing win when he lines up in the Prydes Easifeed Brighton Cup on Sunday night (Apr. 23) in Hobart. The Big Jim gelding won one of his first six starts in New Zealand before […]
Former Tasmanian-based harness racing driver Ryan Backhouse will be looking to make the most of a weekend back in his home state, with the young reinsman booked for drives in Hobart on Friday night (Apr. 14) and again in Launceston on Sunday evening. Backhouse moved to Victoria in late December to work with Horsham-based trainer […]
Wheres The Gold (NZ) (Somebeachsomewhere) produced a powerful staying harness racing performance to justify his hot favouritism for the Group One Tasmania Cup at Hobart on Saturday night (Mar 18). There was no stopping the NZB Standardbred graduate, especially with driver Mark Pitt taking no risks with the star pacer in Tasmania’s biggest race. Wheres The […]
24-year-old reinsman Jack Watson finally broke through for his first win in the harness racing sulky when guiding Shaun To The Max (Pet Rock) to victory in Hobart on Friday night (Mar. 10). Making the win extra special, Watson also owns the pacer and is trained by one of his most loyal supporters, his mother, […]
The Emma Stewart-trained Wheres The Gold (Somebeachsomewhere) got his Tasmania Cup harness racing preparation back on track after he led all the way to score in the second and final heat in Hobart on Friday night (Mar. 10). The gelding was balloted from the final field of the first heat due to his national rating […]
Former Easter and Hobart Cup winner Harjeet (Rocknroll Hanover) returns to the harness racing track in Sunday (Feb 19) night’s feature in Hobart, the Cavalor Equicare Elite Free For All. Harjeet, the winner of 23 races from 50 starts, hasn’t raced since finishing second to Ryley Major in Launceston on 6 November. “He had a […]
The Shallows (Shadyshark Hanover) recorded the second win of his current preparation with a dominant victory in harness racing’s Woodsdale Football Club Pace in Hobart on Sunday night (Jul. 24). Trainer-driver Heath Woods delivered one of the best drives in Tasmania this season to record the victory. After settling one-out and three-back with the second […]
Lightly race five-year-old entire Shandyman added a splash of colour to Sunday’s harness racing meeting at Hobart when the skewbald pacer broke his maiden status at his third race track appearance. Prepared at Westbury by trainer Michael Laugher, the Mr Feelgood entire settled one-out and two-back from his second-row draw before reinsman Conor Crook asked […]
