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Life’s experiences have a way of bringing out the best of us despite the challenges it presents. For hobby harness racing trainer Jamie Egan that challenge has shaped his life in ways that he could never have imagined. Jamie whose tough mare Faith Full (Majestic Son) added yet another win to her record in the […]
Four years on from his last race start – and nearly a decade since his trainer last harnessed up a runner – Santa Casa Beach (Somebeachsomewhere) stormed back into the winner’s list at Horsham yesterday (Oct 6). The eight-year-old gelding, trained at Swan Hill by David Wills, was first-up since 2021 and produced a gritty […]
Rising star reinsman Jordan Leedham has etched his name alongside some of harness racing’s elite by claiming victory in the 2024 Noel Smith Memorial Horsham Invitational Drivers Championship this afternoon (June 5). The 22-year-old was the only concession driver who earned a call-up for this year’s edition of the prestigious series — and proved he […]
Rising star Jordan Leedham is among the headline acts for this year’s 2024 Decron Horse Care Noel Smith Memorial Horsham Harness Racing Invitational Drivers Championship, with nominations closing at midday today (June 5). Now in its 34th edition, the prestigious invitational event is named in honour of the late Noel Smith, a long-serving Horsham Harness […]
Highly talented Wimmera pacer Dee Roe (Art Major) looks set to be a key player in tonight’s (Apr 4) $30,000 Barry Bottams Mildura Harness Racing Club Pacing Cup, and the horse’s connections often share a laugh as to how it all come about. Trainer-driver Aaron Dunn gives his other part-owner Helen Friend all the credit […]
Horsham HRC has announced competitors for the 33rd edition of the Decron Horse Care Noel Smith Memorial Horsham Invitation Drivers Championship to be staged on Monday June 17th “Ellen Tormey returns to defend the title she won last year with two wins, a second and a third in the four heats,” said Horsham HRC President Terry Lewis. […]
He’s had more than 50 wins as an owner and trainer, but neither John Kennedy nor his pacer Notsokool (The Wrath Of Pan) had visited the winner’s circle in quite a while before making the long trek to the Horsham harness racing meeting (Apr 24). But the pair from Pyramid Hill, north of Bendigo, are […]
All-time great Chris Alford has the opportunity to join the late Gavin Lang and Daryl Douglas as the most prolific winners of the Horsham Harness racing Club’s Decron Care Noel Smith Memorial Drivers’ Championship on Monday. Alford is a three-time winner of the series, first contested in 1990 to remember the contribution of past club […]
The stage is set for the running of the Group 3 $60,000 The Weekly Advertiser Horsham Pacing Cup on Sunday afternoon with the bumper 10-race card of harness racing action set to start at 12.01pm, with the cup at 4.09pm. With a predicted max of 27 degrees and a light breeze, it’s going to be […]
It wasn’t a flashy win, or even a high-stakes one, but it meant the world to veteran Mount Gambier harness racing trainer Ken Dihm and his wife Helen, when their prodigal son pacer Hilldale Sunrise (Dawn Ofa New Day) returned to the winner’s circle at Horsham (Feb 1). It was the pacer’s first win in […]
Passionate Maryborough harness racing trainer-driver Mark Hayes reckons he might have to keep a watchful eye on future Horsham programs. Five-year-old gelding Ser Patrick (Bacardi Lindy-Duchess Pat (Earl) kept his undefeated record at the track intact on Monday afternoon in the $7,000 Magnum Equine Trot. “That was the third time we’ve raced him at Horsham, […]
A 60 – 1 boilover win secured the Horsham Harness Racing Club’s popular annual Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Driver’s Championship yesterday for young Victorian reinsman Jack Laugher. Consistency was the name of the game for Laugher, securing just the one win (on the locally-trained Muckinbar Diva (Shadow Play – Muckinbar Lady (Fully Loaded), but racking […]
