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Balliang harness racing trainer Tyrone Abela shows he has a knack for trotters when his promising two year old Jays All That (Elite Stride) led all the way to take out the $50,000 APG Melbourne Graduate Series for two year old trotters Final for two year old colts and geldings at Melton on Friday evening. […]
Time has been called on the career of Victorian harness racing star Act Now (Somebeachsomewhere). A winner of 22 races from 55 starts, and with $910,885 in the bank, the multiple group 1 winning stallion will commence stud duties at Durham Park, the Ballarat stud operation of his owners Bruce and Vicki Edward. Act Now, […]
That the stars aligned for Jodi Quinlan at Shepparton’s Pacing For Pink race meeting was not lost on the 19 times Group 1 winning reinswoman. Quinlan ended the day with a 100 per cent strike rate, saluting in all three harness racing driving engagements on the 11 race program. It was Quinlan’s first venture to […]
Top reinswoman Jodi Quinlan is not only a Team Teal ambassador but a role model for the current and next generation of women and girls climbing the harness racing ranks. Championing the Team Teal initiative has come easy to Quinlan given her family’s brush with cancer. “My Mum had ovarian cancer and Duncan McPherson had a […]
Five year old harness racing pacer Act Now (Somebeachsomewhere), ignored in betting at 80/1, got the job done in an action-packed and dramatic Group One Prydes Easifeed Victoria Cup at Melton (Oct 14). The feisty brown stallion kicked out in the stabling area before the race and scraped a hind leg, having to pass a […]
They are some of harness racing’s finest gems that have won 10,664 races between them. ‘They’ are Kerryn Manning, Amanda Turnbull, Jodi Quinlan and Kate Gath, trailblazers of the female driving ranks in Australia. ‘They’ are all driving in Saturday night’s time-honoured Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final at Tabcorp Park Melton. Kerryn Manning received […]
Jodi Quinlan can add another of harness racing’s grand slam events to her resume when she partners Act Now (Somebeachsomewhere) in this Saturday night’s (Dec. 10) SENTrack Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final at Tabcorp Park Melton. It has been almost 20 years since Quinlan claimed victory in the sport’s premier sprint race – the […]
One of the many great angles of this Inter Dominion pacing final is the collective stories of the harness racing drivers on the three favourites. Jodi Quinlan (Act Now), David Moran (Honolua Bay) and Mark Pitt (Mach Dan) all bring fascinating long and/or short term yarns into the sport’s most iconic race. Winning an Inter […]
Before his Inter Dominion heat at Ballarat tonight (Nov. 26) harness racing reinswoman Jodi Quinlan knew her drive Act Now (Somebeachsomewhere) was ready to race. “He has the devil in him tonight, he tried to kick me out for a lap in the warm up,” Quinlan grinned pre-race. Fortunately for connections, Act Now’s antics paid […]
Punters dare not blink when the mobile releases the field in harness racing’s Paleface Adios Stakes at Menangle on Saturday night. With the two main chances Krug ($1.65 fav) and Act Now ($3.60) drawn alongside each other in barriers one and two respectively, the outcome to the Chariots Of Fire qualifier may be decided within 200 metres […]
Emma Stewart’s stable fired a powerful reminder of its standing on the eve of the Woodlands Stud Victoria Derby with Major Moth and Act Now outstanding at Kilmore on Friday night. The former matched the track record despite sitting in the breeze to win the Carlton & United Breweries Pace and then Act Now followed […]
