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The Vincent Delaney Memorial (VDM) harness racing weekend in Ireland and the UK is pleased to welcome the Hambletonian Society onboard as a sponsor in 2024! The Hambletonian Society are the sponsors of the new Bernie Kelly International Ladies Charity Race. Named in honor of Bernie Kelly, the VDM racing secretary for many years, the […]
One of the highlights of the Irish harness racing calendar, the Anto Russell Memorial Cup, is being staged at Racetime Raceway this Saturday (July 29) and a record attendance is expected to descend on the venue which is just located outside Belfast in Northern Ireland. Five of Irelands fastest pacers will go to post in […]
Racetime Raceway are set to launch their fourth season of harness racing this coming Saturday (July 1) afternoon on the crest of a wave having announced a record number of new owners and trainers licenced, an increased number of additional horses to boost field sizes and more importantly a raft of new sponsors on board […]
Coalford Goodfella (Henry Hill) landed the harness racing spoils with a last to first victory in the prestigious York 3YO Championships at York Harness Raceway (June 17) in the United Kingdom, expertly driven by catch driver Richard Haythornthwaite in an impressive winning time of 1.59.9. Ten top class colts from the UK and Ireland lined up […]
The 2023 Vincent Delaney Memorial Harness Racing Weekend will be held at Tir Prince Racetrack in Wales, on August 12th and 13th, 2023. This is the 3rd time that the racing weekend will be held at Tir Prince. Tir Prince is located in Abergele, North Wales, and offers a world class hospitality experience for race […]
Standardbred Canada has reported that the harness racing industry in Ireland has shown signs of growth in recent years, with horses including Oakwoodanabella IR and Oakwoodannabella IR competing successfully in North America. Now, one of the country’s best trotting stars is headed stateside to face off against tougher talent. Top Irish trotter Harry Knows (Armstrong […]
The inaugural Northern Ireland Standardbred Association (NISA) Turf Track Championships were held at Nutts Corner, Crumlin (Northern Ireland) last Sunday (Sep. 4) with Neil McDermott’s A Kind Of Magic victorious in the feature harness racing event on the seven-race program the Bell Mans Cup. Four heats were staged on the day with the first two […]
Standard fare was the order of the day at Racetime Raceway (Belfast, NI) last Saturday and although there was a lack of quantity of horses in competition it more than made up for in the quality on offer with some top-class performances on the day from some of Northern Ireland’s up and coming pacing stars. […]
On yet another great Saturday afternoon (August 6) of harness racing at Racetime Raceway (Belfast) Alex Patterson’s homebred Alpha Papa (Connors Dragon) won both his heat and the grand final of the days feature event the Klondyke Memorial Cup. Four heats were held in this event all ran over a mile and a quarter with […]
On Saturday 5th August Racetime Raceway hosted the second annual “Klondyke Girl Memorial” race meeting in honour of one of the greatest race mares that ever graced the tracks of the British Isles. The press office of NISA, the officially recognised body for the sport in the jurisdiction of Northern Ireland have released a compilation […]
Belfast, IR/UK – Damien Mooney’s Big Pete (Table the Nukes – Crazy Chick) retained his pinto harness racing pacing crown at Racetime Raceway on Saturday (July 23) to the delight of a record attendance that had converged on the Northern Irish venue to witness the annual Pinto Pacing Derby – the clash of the coloreds. Always […]
Of the three harness racing meetings that were staged in Ireland over last weekend Racetime Raceway in Belfast was the only venue that boasted a sub-2:00 minute mile when Phils Dragon paced 1:59.5 to win the high-grade pace for owner/trainer/driver North Lucas. Quality was on display in abundance and the sun shone brightly on competitors, […]
Having experienced rain of biblical proportions at its previous meeting, the weather was much kinder to competitors and patrons at Racetime Raceway (Belfast) last Saturday where the five-race harness racing program was held in golden sunshine. The opening event for maiden and novice grade pacers was won by owner/trainer/driver Tiernan Grimes with Camenna (Pro Bono […]
A bumper crowd converged on Racetime Raceway in Belfast (UK) last Saturday for their opening meeting of the 2022. This kickstarted the tracks third season of racing and the venue has gone from strength to strength with each passing year providing grass roots harness racing for the locals in the province of Ulster. All prizemoney […]
The Vincent Delaney Memorial Committee is pleased to release the preliminary itinerary for the harness racing weekend of Aug. 9 thru Aug. 14, 2022. In the past, the VDM Committee and Oakwood Stud have graciously hosted tours for the foreign visitors to show them more of the country on their trip. Past tours have included […]
The VDM Committee is pleased to confirm that the Vincent Delaney Memorial Racing weekend will be held at Tir Prince Racetrack, in Wales, on August 13th and 14th 2022. This will be the second year that the harness racing weekend is held at Tir Prince, after a very successful first go at it in 2021. In an […]
Belfast, UK – The curtain fell on NISA’s 2021 season at Racetime Raceway in Belfast last Saturday where the star of the show was Barry Reavey’s Oakwood Maverick, who won both his heat and the grand final of the Klondyke Girl Memorial Cup, sponsored by the Lyttle Family and Thompsons Feed Innovation. Three heats were […]
Belfast, UK – The curtain is set to fall on the 2021 harness season at Racetime Raceway in Belfast this Saturday where the career of top free-for-aller Klondyke Girl is celebrated through a series of heats and a final sponsored by the great racemare’s owners Peter Lyttle & Family. Three Heats will be run with […]
BELFAST, IE – The harness racing track records for both the mile pace and the mile trot fell at Racetime Raceway Saturday (Sept. 4) with Peter Lyttles Rio Bravo and Finbarr Brickleys Socrates Du Noyer going into the Northern Irish history books. Going to post the joint favourite alongside John Barley on the bookmakers boards, […]
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