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Long Forest reinswoman Kate Gath has claimed her second Noel Smith Memorial Horsham Invitational Drivers Championship, taking out the annual event on Monday. Gath produced a consistent performance throughout the championship, piloting two winners and two seconds to finish on 37 points, one clear of Jordan Leedham (36) and Michael Bellman (35). It was Gath’s […]
Some of Victoria’s finest reinsmen and women will converge on Horsham next Monday (October 5) for a harness racing tradition stretching back more than three decades. The Noel Smith Memorial Horsham Invitational Drivers Championship returns for its 35th edition, bringing together 10 leading Victorian drivers for a six-heat battle at the Horsham track. And while […]
Outstanding two year old filly Bumper Crop (On A Streak) extended her unbeaten record to four wins following a truly comprehensive harness racing win in the Second Heat of the APG VicBred Super Series Trotters fillies at Melton on Friday night. A false start did little to unsettle Bumper Crop and from the inside of […]
Former star juvenile Soho Darknstormy (Lazarus) showed a welcome return to form leading all the way and holding off his rivals in the Hall Of Fame Mahar Family Pace at Melton on Saturday night. Drawn out in five, Soho Darknstormy showed sparkling early speed to take up the running. Zenario was caught outside the leader […]
Multiple premiership-winning driver Kate Gath is just happy to be back in the sulky after a “bad back” sidelined her for a couple of weeks. Gath, Melton’s leading driver in 2020, ’21 and ’23, returns with some key drives headed by her own enigmatic stable star Catch A Wave and exciting pick-up drive The Preacher […]
Star driver Kate Gath will be trying to protect an unbeaten harness racing record in the $250,000 Group 1 Chariots Of Fire when she teams with outsider My Ultimate Barney at Menangle on Saturday night. The SA-born driver won Australia’s premier four-year-old feature at her first attempt when Caribbean Blaster caused an upset in 2012. […]
Prominent reinswoman Kate Gath was spot on when she guided My Little Bo (Captain Crunch) to lead all the way to win the Nevele R Stud pace for mares at Melton on Saturday evening. The race was predicted to be a two clash between the capable mare Jilliby Illuminate and the lightly raced Soap And […]
Royally bred Alrighty (Skyvalley) scored probably his best win to date when he outstayed his rivals to take out the APG VicBred three year old Trotters Silver trot at Melton on Friday evening. Known for making a number of mistakes during his career Alrighty was nursed back to the rear of the field by Kate […]
Proven pacer Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) showed a welcome return to form when he snatched victory in the last stride harness racing win In the IRT Free For All at Melton on Saturday evening. Catch A Wave has had a lean run of late and his last win was in a Free For All at […]
It is a case of one challenge down and another one to come for harness racing’s “Superwoman” Kate Gath during the Queensland Inter Dominion. Gath, 42, the most successful female Group 1 driver in Australian history, is a passionate distance runner and smashed her personal best win last Sunday’s Gold Coast Marathon. Just hours after […]
Lightly raced colt Cardigan Dan (Downbytheseaside) upset his more fancied harness racing stablemate Loucasso when he led for most of the trip in taking out the $20,000 Durham Park Rising Star for two year olds at Ballarat on Thursday evening. The win capped a great night for trainer Emma Stewart as she prepared the first […]
Outstanding Victorian pacer Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) staked his claim for a back to back Nullabor success with an effortless all the way harness racing win in the Garrards Horse and Hounds Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Although Catch A Wave was well supported local punters put their hope into their boom pacer […]
Top line pacer Catch A Wave (Captain Treacherous) had to draw upon his superior class when he narrowly won the Hoyts Food Geelong Rocket on Friday night. Fresh from an unsuccessful tilt at the Miracle Mile Catch A Wave was expected to return to winning form but he faced a number of formidable opponents. CATCH […]
The capable mare I’m Ready Jet (Quaker Jet) showed that she will be a force to contend with when she scored a narrow harness racing win in the Benstuds Standardbreds Trotters Free For All at Melton last night. Resuming from a let up I’m Ready Jet was not readily fancied and the sentimental favourite was […]
New Zealand bred colt Showmethetanlines (Downbytheseaside) maintained his unbeaten harness racing run when he led all the way In the $50,000 Group 3 Multiquip Aggregates New South Wales Sapling Stakes at Menangle Park last night. Showmethetanlines had won at his debut at Addington before coming over to Victoria to join Adam Kelly’s stables. On the […]
Outstanding New Zealand pacer Don’t Stop Dreaming (Bettor’s Delight) at last was able to show Australian harness racing fans his true colours with a powerful staying performance to take out last night’s $30,000 Terang Co-Op Pacing Cup at the Dalvui Raceway last night. Patiently driven by Kate Gath, Don’t Stop Dreaming eased back to the […]
Catch A Wave’s (Captain Treacherous) Miracle Mile prospects received a boost when as expected he outclassed his rivals in the Morsbearings Pace at Terang last night. Despite his star status, Catch A Wave’s trainer Andy Gath bypassed the higher quality Terang Cup in favour of the shorter event and harness racing patrons were treated to […]
Two superstars of the harness racing game will team-up for the first time in a quest to upstage Leap To Fame in Saturday night’s $100,000 Cranbourne Cup. Kiwi Hall of Famer Mark Purdon has booked trailblazing Aussie driver Kate Gath to partner his best pacer, Dont Stop Dreaming, in the Group 2 feature. “I couldn’t […]
Outsider Watts Up Partytime (Majestic Son) caused a boilover when he stormed home to take out the Group 1 $250,000 Yabby Dam Farms Great Southern Star Trotters Final at Melton last night. The unique nature of the event was that all trotters participated in heats before taking on the harness racing Final two hours later. […]
Former Miracle Mile winner Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) is ready to add to his Group 1 harness racing haul in tomorrow’s $200,000 Group 1 NZ Free-For-All (1980m) at Addington. On paper, the eight-time Group 1 winner only finished 11th in Tuesday’s Junior free-for-all, but a deeper look shows he smashed the clock after getting back […]
Tango Tara (A Rocknroll Dance) made a belated return to the harness racing winner’s stall at Melton when he led all the way in the $25,000 Del Re National Italian Cup. Favorite backers were delivered an early broadside at the meeting when the $1.60 favorite Perfect Class galloped after appearing to be tightened heading into […]
Brilliant Victorian raider Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) gave superstar driver Kate Gath the most satisfying win of her stellar harness racing career in last night’s $1.25mil Group 1 Nullarbor at Gloucester Park. And the five-year-old gelding, who had already won a Miracle Mile, smashed through the $2 million prize money barrier in the process. “That’s right […]
Kate Gath’s love of running is legendary. The superstar Aussie harness racing driver enjoys speed off the track as much as on it and has competed in several marathons, including New York in 2022. She’s deep in training again for her second attempt at the Gold Coast marathon in July. For the past year or […]
Kate Gath is shocked, but in a really good way. Gath feared reigning Miracle Mile harness racing champ Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) – the best pacer she and husband Andy have trained – had fractured a leg in last night’s Geelong Rocket. But an extensive veterinary inspection this morning (Saturday) left Team Gath shaking their […]
