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This content was first released to The Insider subscribers. Don’t wait days for the edge on the latest news. Get our previews, selections, and insights early by joining our free newsletter The Insider. It’s fair to say that young harness racing driver Lleyton Green experienced his greatest thrill on Saturday evening when he piloted Gladiatrix (Elite Stride) to […]
Last season’s leading two year old filly Gladiatrix (Elite Stride) scored her first win as a three year old in the grandest possible way in a storming finish in the $75,000 Group 1 Yabby Dam Farms New South Wales Oaks at Menangle on Saturday evening. A winner of six races last season Gladiatrix had a […]
Smart filly Peace Out (Bettors Delight) was rewarded for her consistency with an all the way win in the Nutrien Equine New South Wales Breeders Challenge Heat for three year old fillies at Newcastle on Friday evening. In doing so she continued the winning steak of the McDowell training stable. Ideally drawn in barrier 2, […]
Honest filly Tenaciously (Art Major) was rewarded for her consistency when she sprinted clear to take out the Nutrien Equine New South Wales Breeders Challenge Heat at Bathurst for three year old fillies on Wednesday evening. Initially favourite in pre race betting, Tenaciously was eased back at the start by driver Brad Hewitt to take […]
Lightly raced filly Smirkin Serene (Lord Zin Zan) scored her best harness racing win to date when she led all the way in the $100,000 Group 2 Cobbity Equine New South Wales Breeders Challenge Blue for three year old fillies at Menangle on Saturday evening. Smirkin Serene couldn’t hold out Violet Hanover at the start […]
Harness Racing New South Wales staged both finals for the juvenile trotters at Menangle Park on Saturday night and punters were on the mark when Miss Ohana (Art Major) and Gladiatrix (Elite Stride) won their respective finals. The $50,000 Group 2 Final for the three year olds was taken out in stylish style by the […]
The first heat of this year’s Kari JC Caffyn Plate harness racing series for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drivers within New South Wales was held at Young on Tuesday night. The series, that has been run since 2010 involves indigenous drivers from all regions of the state, has proven a great promotion. Western Sydney-based […]
Bankstown Harness Racing Club has a busy period during August highlighted by the running of two feature races for three-year-old pacers. Sponsored by the McDowell family, the Allied Express Couriers Derby and the Cheryl McDowell Oaks will both be keenly contested finals on August 25, each carrying more than $20,000 in stakes. Two heats for […]
Mulgoa-based horseman Lleyton Green has stamped himself as a star on the rise in harness racing in the Sydney basin, aided by his association with the McDowell family’s Allied Express Racing enterprise. Green enjoyed a successful 2021 season, driving 53 winners and 109 placings from his 411 race drives, an impressive tally by any reinsman’s […]
Harness raicng’s training partnership of Dean and Kerry McDowell will certainly have their hands full over the next two days. Their Allied Express Pacing and Trotting establishment heads to Goulburn on Monday afternoon where they have five horses racing and then tomorrow, they will load up from their Mulgoa base and travel to Newcastle with […]
Each week Harness Racing New South Wales takes you through some of the highlights from all the meetings across the state, the big bets – good and bad – as well as some to follow. Lets’ start! Mr 500 and has cake and doesn’t eat it too! The countdown has been on for a few […]
Having recently surpassed half-a-century of winners in his succinct career, junior harness racing driver Lleyton Green is in demand. The 17year-old reinsman will drive in seven of the nine races at Penrith on Thursday night. All of his engagements are for training partners Dean and Kerry McDowell who Green has been working with as a […]
There are no New South Wales Breeders Challenge heats at Penrith on Thursday night but astute trainer Jarrod Alchin has two of his talented two-year-olds contesting the meeting. My Ultimate Cobber and My Ultimate Skeeta both failed to progress to Saturday night’s NSWBC semi-finals but at the same time were not disgraced among an incredibly-talented […]
