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Father Barry (Father Patrick) hasn’t become the trotter trainer John Dickie thought he would. Well, not yet anyway. The five-year-old trotter recorded the fourth win of his career in the $35,000 Metro Final at Alexandra Park on Friday night, which may sound like a promising start for a horse who has had just 24 starts. […]
When Australian driver Luke McCarthy takes the reins on Kingman (Always B Miki) in Tuesday’s IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup it’ll be his third drive in the great race. His first drive was on Washakie in 2009 which finished fourteenth and his second on For A Reason which ran third in 2014. He might not […]
The running of the Worthy Queen Handicap Trot last Friday night at Addington further highlighted the marvellous achievements of Pegasus Spur across Australasia. Runner up to winner Mighty Logan, I Dream Of Jeannie is one of the few Pegasus Spurs still racing, while third placegetter Muscle Mountain is out of a Pegasus Spur mare. Pegasus […]
Old Town Road’s (Bettor’s Delight) career will be reignited next Friday night when his new trainer Bob Butt takes him to Addington. “It’s just a bugger we had that se back but it is what it is. He goes real good fresh and only needs a couple of runs from what John (former trainer John […]
2024 is certainly a season of change for harness racing with All Stars Racing announcing Blair Orange will be their number one driver for the future. Orange has driven full time for the stable in the past and he’s already driven 396 winners for Mark Purdon and his various training partnerships. The first winner for […]
Clevedon trainer John Dickie has some key runners in harness racing feature races at Alexandra Park tomorrow night. He has two runners in the $110,000 Group One Breckon Farms Northern Trotting Derby. In last week’s Three Year Old Trotters Championship, Father Barry (Father Patrick) made ground late to get within three quarters of a length […]
Trainer John Dickie is convinced Old Town Road’s (Bettor’s Delight) Auckland Cup harness racing campaign is back on track. But he says getting him back from the track might be the problem. The Race by Grins runner-up has not been seen since then and Dickie says that is partially due to developing the most unusual […]
Trainer John Dickie says he doesn’t deserve any of the credit for Midfrew Lucre’s (Bettor’s Delight) effortless harness racing win at Alexandra Park on Friday night. Because he hasn’t seen the pacer for over two weeks, instead being in Canterbury with an even better horse trying to win a far bigger race. Dickie has Old […]
