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Leading harness racing driver Kerryn Manning is slowly on the mend following her recent horror accident at Melton on VicBred night on 12 September. Although she was able to walk off the track the incident was far more painful and the diagnosis more serious when she returned home. I’m tracking better this week. I was […]
The question for this weekend’s national harness racing scene is whether ace trainer Emma Stewart can add the VicBred Four year old pacers Finals to her clean sweep of the two and three year old features that she achieved last Saturday night at Melton. In the four year old entires and geldings Final she has […]
Trailblazing driver Kerryn Manning faces another lengthy stint on the sidelines in the aftermath of her fall at Melton last night. Scans today revealed the five-time Australian premiership winner had fractured three vertebrae – L1, L2, and L3 – and one of them was slightly displaced. “I’m waiting to hear from the Royal Melbourne back […]
It just feels right that Kerryn Manning will be a key part of Emma Stewart’s quest to continue her harness racing dominance of the rich Vicbred series at Melton on Saturday night. The pair go back 25 years to when Stewart worked for Manning’s father, Peter, at his hugely successful Great Western stables. “Then I […]
Consistent pacer Most Exciting (Always B Miki) handled a treat by ace driver Kerryn Manning upset his more fancied stablemates when he outsprinted his rivals to take out the first semi final of the APG Vicbred Super Series for three year old colts and geldings at Melton on Saturday night. Drawn the pole Most Exciting […]
Fighter Command (Always B Miki) produced a commanding harness racing display to take out the Swift Signs Free For All at Melton on Saturday night, stopping the clock in a slick 1:52.0 mile rate over 1720m. Driven by Kerryn Manning for trainer Jess Tubbs, the five‑year‑old gelding overcame a wide second‑row draw to surge home powerfully, defeating Catch A Wave and Bulletproof Boy. The margin of […]
The Victorian raiders made a clean sweep of the Tasmania Derby and Oaks run at Hobart on Sunday afternoon and leading reinswoman Kerryn Manning was the star of the show driving both classic winners as well as two other harness racing winners on the card. Victorian colt Enjoy Life (Always B Miki) maintained his unbeaten […]
JUST days after her 50th birthday, the trail-blazing Kerryn Manning is still breaking records. Manning, who boasts almost 4500 wins, will partner Lovemeto in her 17th drive in the Inter Dominion trotting final at Albion Park on Saturday night. That will break the tie she holds with the late, great Gavin Lang on 16 […]
It is fitting the trailblazing Kerryn Manning breaking another Australian record will headline a powerful Victorian flavour on Ladbrokes Inter Dominion Grand Final night. Manning, who turned 50 last Friday, will drive in her 17th Inter Dominion trotting final after qualifying aboard the Chris Svanosio-trained Lovemeto last Saturday night. That breaks her tie with the late […]
Defending Inter Dominion star Arcee Phoenix (Trixton) showed he’s back with a vengeance by leading all the way in the In the First heat of the second round of the Inter Dominion Trotters Championship at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Despite the presence of Gus, trainer driver Chris Svanosio was quietly confident before the race. […]
Great Western harness racing driver and trainer Kerryn Mannining with 30 year-old horse Allbenz. Manning purchased Allbenz for $500. Manning’s training establishment at Great Western is named Allbenz Park. (Photograph Paul Carracher, The Weekly Advertiser)Long before she became one of Australian harness racing’s greatest reinswomen, Kerryn Manning was just a teenage girl with big dreams, […]
Talented trotter Lovemeto (What The Hill) gave one of his best harness racing efforts to date with a tough win in the Aldebaran Park Trotters Free For All at Melton on Saturday evening. One of trainer’s Chris Svanosio’s three runners in the event Lovmeto was favourite but all eyes were on I’m Bobby who was […]
Hall of Famer and Living Legend reinswoman Kerryn Manning will add star power to today’s (June 9) Warragul Pacing Cup meeting – and could tick off a long-standing omission from her extraordinary harness racing resume in the process. Manning hasn’t driven at Warragul for more than two decades and has never saluted there, making the […]
The highly respected Manning stable so renowned for their previous trotters success may have unearthed another potential star when Vance Lane (Elite Stride) finished too strongly to win the Garrards Horse and Hounds two year old trot at Melton on Saturday night. At his opening start Vance Lane was tailed off and then last start […]
The American owner of Duke Of Cornwall (Sweet Lou) Richard Poillucci is hopeful the gelding can return to racing, but an x-ray at the end of the month will determine the stallion’s harness racing future. Duke of Cornwall won four of his nine starts as a two year old for his New Zealand trainer Lauren […]
Talented but injury prone mare Susan Is Her Name (Sebastian K) resumed with a most impressive harness racing win in the Mimosa Homes Trot at Melton on Saturday night. Susan Is Her Name hadn’t raced since finishing second in the VSS Four Year Old Trot at Melton last September but that didn’t prevent punters from […]
TRAILBLAZING harness racing driver Kerryn Manning had some quick and very serious thinking to do Saturday. Manning got a phone call saying the exciting Emma Stewart-trained four-year-old High Above (Captaintreacherous) had snared a start in the $2.1mil TAB Eureka and asked if she would like to drive him. High Above posted his fifth win from […]
Champion reinswoman Kerryn Manning joined the harness racing driver merry go round on Like A Wildfire (Big Jim) in successful fashion in the $24,000 Golden Reign Free For All at Melton. Manning made a mid-race move to sit parked outside the leader Dangerous with 1400 metres to travel as the leader was able to slow […]
For all the remarkable things trailblazing harness racing driver Kerryn Manning has achieved, winning Saturday night’s Inter Dominion trotting final on Plymouth Chubb (Majestic Son) could top it all. It’s a big call when you consider she became just the second female to drive a Group 1 winner in Europe on Knight Pistol in Norway […]
Kerryn Manning has a “soft launch” into Inter Dominion week when she returns from injury for just one harness racing drive at Horsham tomorrow (Dec 11). Manning, 47, hasn’t driven since a fall at Melton on October 7 left her with four fractures in a wrist. The trailblazing driver has been racing time and medical […]
Kerryn Manning has endured a tough end to the 2023 harness racing season and the news isn’t getting any better for the champion reinswoman with recent scans revealing her wrist injury is worse than first thought. Manning had only just returned to driving from broken vertebrae in her back when she suffered a fall during […]
They say good things come in threes and for champion harness racing trainer, Emma Stewart, her third Group One success on Vicbred Super Series Final’s night at Melton also happened to be her second consecutive trifecta. He’s Watching filly, Draw A Dream, justified her short priced favouritism with an arrogant performance in the $150,000 2YO […]
A filly passed in at the yearling sales for $12,000 and a harness racing driver with three broken vertebrae is shaping as the combination to beat in next week’s Group 1 $150,000 Art Major Vicbred Super Series (2YO Fillies) Final. The unbeaten Emma Stewart trained filly Draw A Dream (He’s Watching) and the world champion […]
Champion reinswoman Kerryn Manning is set for a significant stint on the sidelines after a serious fall at the Horsham harness racing trials last Thursday. Manning was dislodged from the sulky and fell on her back, with follow-up x-rays revealing three broken vertebrae that require more than a month of rest to heal. The 47-year-old […]
