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The country’s leading two year old trotter Apollo Eleven (Bold Eagle) will have a hit out at the Cambridge Workouts at Cambridge tomorrow as he gets ready for some major targets in the next few months. “He’s been into Cambridge a couple of time for fast work, but he’s been doing most of his work […]
MILTON, ON (SEPT. 4, 2026) – King Of The North fillies Major Contender and Flawless Lady each won a $100,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 4 division for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (Sept. 4) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In the first division (race 5), Major Contender, sent off at 6-1 in the field of nine, led […]
Genevieve Crawford who works for her father Jimmy on the family farm at Lawrence, is preparing eight yearlings for the NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales in Christchurch. Among them are two Bulldog Hanover colts. “They’ve been ‘interesting’ horses,” Crawford said. Bulldog Hanover became a worldwide sensation in harness racing. He won twenty eight of his thirty […]
Lexington, KY – Trotting colt Jimdougie Armitage, a son of Captain Corey-Quick Bet, became the highest-priced horse ever sold during a second session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale when he was purchased for $750,000 by Ake Svanstedt Inc. on Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. The previous high price on the sale’s second day came last year […]
Southern harness racing nursery Macca Lodge has twelve weanlings earmarked for this month’s NZB Standardbred National Standardbred Weanling Sale at Karaka. The weanlings will leave Macca Lodge for the 1,500 kilometre trip on Saturday morning and arrive in Auckland on Monday. “We took some up a couple of years ago and the trip went well. […]
New Zealander Paxton Conder knew little about harness racing’s Llowalong Farms stud prior to being introduced to its owner, Kath McIntosh, by Ken Breckon from Breckon Farms. Based in the Waikato, Conder recently launched her own marketing business and is being contracted by Llowalong Farms to promote the New Zealand side of their business. “I […]
Chapter Seven and his champion son Walner have outdistanced all other trotting stallions in North America for the past few years in every age group and category. Chapter Seven took out the trotting sires’ premiership in 2021 and 2002 before relinquishing the title to Walner last year. Chapter Seven looks certain to claim his third […]
The King Of The North Syndicate and Tara Hills Stud announced on Thursday that the 2024 book for harness racing world champion King Of The North is now full and closed. King Of The North is the richest son of siring sensation Walner. King Of The North was voted U.S. Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the […]
One of Victoria’s most progressive standardbred studs will unveil its super-impressive lineup of 2023 stallions at what is becoming a must-do event on the harness racing breeders’ calendar on Sunday fortnight, September 10. Llowalong Farms at Kyabram is emerging as a lead player in Australian breeding, and with a record 10 sires – and some […]
No, not the recently crowned King Charles III, but someone far more critical to the harness racing world and Trotting breeders in Australasia. The Award-winning and exciting son of Walner in King Of The North will be boarding a flight in the USA in July heading to Llowalong Farms in northern Victoria. King Of The […]
Tara Hills Stud in Ontario’s hottest new harness racing stallion is King Of The North (Walner) 3,1:50.3 ($1,171,385) and he proved it for charity as his stud service brought more than double its listed service fee in the recently concluded Christian Harness Horsemen’s Association on-line stallion breeding auction held on OnGait.com. With his 2023 stallion […]
The book is full and closed for King Of The North (Walner) 3, 1:50.3s ($1,169,561), the 2021 Dan Patch 2-Year-Old Colt Trotter of the Year and 2022 Breeders Crown champion who is standing his first season at stud in 2023 for Kountry Lane Standardbreds at Tara Hills Stud in Port Perry, Ont. A world champion […]
True to his name, 2021 Dan Patch Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year and Breeders Crown champion, King Of The North (Walner, 3,1:50.3 | $1,166,854), will head north of the border as the heir apparent to the trotting harness racing stallion throne. After much deliberation, Kountry Lane Standardbreds are delighted to announce that the richest […]
