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Lightly raced filly Soap and Bubbles (Lather Up) finally cracked a win at metropolitan headquarters against older opposition in the Renown Silverware Mares Pace at Melton on Saturday evening. Although she was the least experienced runner, Soap And Bubbles was installed favourite ahead of Centofellie. Driver Mark Pitt was patient early allowing Soap and Bubbles […]
Husband and wife combination Mark and Lisa Pitt scored their most important to date when their star harness racing filly Ride The Highs (Ride High) gave a faultless all the way display to take out the Group 1 $150,000 Qbred Triad Final for two year old fillies at Albion Park on Saturday evening. On the […]
Victorian husband-and-wife team Lisa and Mark Pitt are daring to dream big ahead of Saturday night’s (August 16) $150,000 Group 1 QBred Triad for two-year-old pacing fillies at Brisbane’s Albion Park. Their precocious filly Ride The Highs (Ride High) has drawn perfectly in barrier three to give the couple a dream shot at their biggest […]
New South Wales harness racing trainer Ellen Jones stood strong at Shepparton on Tuesday (March 18), adding the final touch to a rare family feat. Jones prepares her team at Narrandera with husband Blake, and joined sisters Beck, (Bartley), of Kialla, and Lisa (Pitt), of Girgarre, in each training winners on the nine-event program. “The […]
John Bartley could not possibly have imagined his love of horses as a hobby trainer in outback Australia would inspire three of his granddaughters to highly successful harness racing careers. And tomorrow night (Feb. 10) the three women, Bec Bartley, Lisa Pitt and Ellen Jones, will acknowledge their grandfather’s inspiration when they converge on the […]
It’s not often eight-year-old debutante trotters get everything right – but Amigos (Bacardi Lindy) did that at Cobram last week (Jan 18) and his 20-metre victory repaid the blood, sweat and the “many, many tears” of harness racing trainer Lisa Pitt. The strongly built Amigos was tried as a two-year-old colt by his breeder Steve […]
It was a case of fourth time lucky for 21-year-old Leilani Justice, who is following in the footsteps of her father Lance, a household name in harness racing, who’s virtually done it all. Leilani handled square gaiter Chinski (Peak) to perfection at Maryborough last Friday (June 2) to take out the Mark Hayes Life Member […]
