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Thirty year old Kim Blakemore is taking a break from harness racing for now as she focuses on being a new Mum to her ten week old daughter. Despite the excitement of having a new baby, her enthusiasm for breeding horses albeit on a small scale, has not diminished. She’s currently breeding from Love Yourself, […]
In the Lincoln Farms Here For The Horse Mobile Pace at Cambridge tonight, northern junior driver Crystal Hackett achieved her 200th win driving the Andrew and Lyn Neal trained Merie Mary (Bettor’s Delight). MERIE MARY REPLAY Crystal told me earlier this week, “I was sitting on 198 for three weeks and I finally got up […]
Grove City, OH – Party Up (Lather Up) recorded the fastest mile of three $50,000 divisions of the first leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes for freshman filly pacers on Monday (July 13) at Northfield Park Racino. Driven by Dan Noble, Party Up led gate to wire with fractions of :27.4, :57.2, and 1:25.3 and […]
Canterbury couple Dayle and Kay Kinzett were on course at Addington on Friday night to see Cheer Up N Dance (Always B Miki), the latest from their ‘Dance’ breed, win on debut. The win further highlights a decision the couple made thirteen years ago to go to the yearling sales and buy the well-bred filly […]
Four-year-old Lather Up gelding Imperial Sanz recorded his second win at his sixth race start when claiming the $14,000 Max McCormack (2200m) in Launceston on Sunday night. The Kent Rattray-trained pacer had recorded his maiden win at the start prior. From his outside of the second row on Sunday, reinsman John Walters positioned the pacer one-out and […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray has a large team racing across the ten race card at Winton tomorrow. Here are his thoughts on their form and chances. Race One: Party Up Denario (Lather Up) “We’ve had a wee few troubles with her. This week she’s got a good draw. If she goes as good as […]
CUMBERLAND, ME – About an hour before the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans was being contested about 500 miles down the eastern seaboard, First Tracks held their own $7,000 Cumberland Preakness on Saturday (May 16) at the iconic Southern Maine oval. A ten furlong dash, the seven harness racing fillies and mares that comprised the conditioned […]
Ryal Bush harness racing trainer Brett Gray reckons Our Twinkle (Ultimate Machete) is the stable’s best bet of the day for the Riverton meeting at Winton tomorrow. “He’s racing super at the moment. He hasn’t got the best of draws but it could work out alright. It was a big run the other day. He […]
A number of first starters line up at Wairio tomorrow. Race One: Imperious Girl (Imperial Count) – trainer Craig Ferguson. This three year old filly went to five workouts for Brian Norman before transferring to Craig Ferguson’s barn from which she qualified by an impressive fifteen lengths, running home in 58.5. Imperious Girl is from […]
Steve and Amanda Telfer will be hoping to retain their good record in the Southern Belle Speed Series when the line up two runners in Sunday’s $40,000 final at Winton. The stable has won the mares’ feature three times – Darling Me in 2022, Sweet Diamond 2024 and Seaside Rose last year. This year they’ll […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray has nine runners at Ascot Park tomorrow. He talks to Bruce Stewart about their chances. Race One: Party Up Denario (Lather Up) -Driver Brent Barclay “She’s been racing well and I thought she went really good last week. She’s a good runner’s chance,” Gray said. Race Two: High Return (Bettor’s […]
An exciting win by Debbie Lincoln (NZ) saw young sire Lather Up get his first Group One winner ahead of the 2026 National Yearling Sale. Bred by Woodlands Stud, Debbie Lincoln is out of winning Sir Lincoln mare Yasmine Bromac (NZ) (Sir Lincoln), and she was offered through their 2022 NZB Standardbred National Weanling Sale draft where she was […]
Debbie Lincoln (Lather Up) has been a silent achiever in the fillys and mares ranks and tonight at Addington in the $100,000 G1 Fahy Fence Hire NZ Breeders Stakes she proved she’s top shelf. Trained by Joshua Davine and expertly handled by Kimberly Butt the four year old was too strong for a very good […]
Grove City, Ohio – A winner in 12 of 18 starts this season, Bath Bomb (Lather Up) has been selected as the Ohio 2025 Aged Mare Pacer of the Year. The 4-year-old Lather Up mare out of Sangaal hit the board in 16 of her 18 starts on the year, adding two second-place and two […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray heads to Ascot Park with a good team tomorrow, but he’s not been too lucky with the draws. In Race One, Gray has maiden trotter Don’t Stop Believing (Creatine) down to start. He has two runners in Race Two – Vice Chairwoman (Washington VC) and Anita Mary (Fear The Dragon). […]
Two harness racing divisions of the $18,000 condition claiming pace were contested on Friday (Nov. 21) at Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway, where a pair of sophomore pacing geldings used similar trips to capture their respective divisions in identical 1:51.4 miles. Odds On Mad Hatter (Luke Hanners) took the first division with a front stepping […]
Shades Of Silk ($31), the $44,000 Tasmanian Harness Racing Yearling Sales topper in 2023, opened his winning account in Launceston on Sunday night, claiming a Three Year Old and Older Maiden event over 1680m, as he prepares for the heats of the Group 3 Globe Derby in Launceston on 16 November. In what was a good payday […]
The owner/trainer combo of Caldwell Mamie Racing and Steve Carter swept the $18,000 condition claiming co-features on the Halloween card (Oct. 31) at Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway. In the first $18,000 event, Luke Hanners fired Bars And Notes (Racing Hill) off the gates wings and slid ahead of Fear The Madness (Trevor Smith) in […]
Owner, breeder and trainer Samantha Freeman was all smiles after Allsudsnobubbles made a winning race track harness racing debut, in a Two Year Old Maiden (1609m) in Hobart on Sunday night. The gelded son of Lather Up led the one-wide in the line in the early stages, and was inclined to over race, before driver Jordan […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray is in for a couple of big days. Tomorrow he takes six runners to the Wyndham meeting. And on Friday night his star two year old filly Miki’s Deal (Always B Miki) will race in the Caduceus Club Two Year Old Fillies Series prelude at Addington. “Her work’s been really […]
Southern Bred Southern Reared horses were to the fore at Addington last night with Jumal (Downbytheseaside) continuing on his winning way and Tact Teva (Lather Up) making a winning return to the racetrack after last racing in October 2024. “He got kicked by a paddock mate and fractured the bone above his knee. It was […]
Grove City, OH – There have been 15 different harness racing winners through three legs of the 2025 Buckeye Stallion Series for freshman filly pacers. The only horse to claim a repeat victory thus far, Eyes Up, will go for her third BSS win on Thursday (Aug. 21) as Eldorado Scioto Downs hosts four $20,000 […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Virgil Morgan Jr. trainee Women Layer (Sweet Lou) completed a full sweep of Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) action at Oak Grove, winning in every prelim of both series as well as in both finals when he capped the second series with a 1:49.2 stroll in the $150,000 final on Tuesday (June […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Favorites Bath Bomb (Lather Up) and Women Layer (Sweet Lou) successfully scored sweeps of the Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) series with wins in their respective $100,000 finals on the Sunday (May 11) card at Oak Grove, which featured four $100,000 KYSS finals for harness racing 4-year-olds. Bath Bomb (driven by Andy […]
