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Veronica Bennellick’s name stands out in the racebook because she’s a much-needed new face in the sport. The thirty three year old lives in Feilding on a 28-acre family farm with her partner Michael Hay and their five year old son Mason. And this is her first season of training. Veronica has been around horses […]
Neita Balle is hoping for a turnaround on day two at Palmerston North today, with the young harness racing trainer preparing a pair of chances alongside father Derek in the Herb Stent Memorial Handicap Trot (6.37pm). The stable lines up Westar Milly (Love You) and Son Of Patrick (Father Patrick) in the 2500m standing start, […]
Rack’em Up will look to make it two on the bounce when he lines up again today at Manawatu Raceway. The four-year-old son of Betting Line is trained and co-owned by Canterbury horseman Andrew Drake alongside partner Brianna Thomas, and he comes into the assignment off a determined victory earlier in the week. Despite drawing […]
Rhaegal will look to continue his good harness racing form when he lines up in the Pete’s Plumbing Mobile Pace at Palmerston North today. The son of Fear The Dragon is prepared by local trainer John Gommans and comes into the 2000m event (6.36pm) following a strong last start performance at Manawatu on February 26. […]
Fifty seven year old northern horseman Peter Ferguson doesn’t chase the drives these days but has no plans on giving driving away. “I’m happy driving for the stables I’m driving for. In the North Island pretty much all of the main stables have got their own drivers so there are not as many drives going […]
Two well-bred two year olds were on show for Nathan Williamson at the Invercargill Workouts on Friday. Treacherous Me, a Captaintreacherous filly out of Only Me, took out the three horse 1700 metre mobile workout from Simply Amazing – a Bettor’s Delight colt out of Simply Devine. Treacherous Me is the second foal out of […]
Robyns Playboy (Shadow Play), affectionally known as ‘The Beast from the East’ has been retired and will join the HERO programme under the guidance of Invercargill trainer Shannon Armour. Trained by Ross and Chris Wilson, Robyns Playboy was a real family horse with all the members of the Wilson clan having a stake in him. […]
The first of Manawatu’s new look Sunday harness racing meetings will be held this weekend. Three twilight Sunday meetings have been scheduled between now and the end of their season in May. They are on February 23, March 30 and April 6. Each of the Sunday meetings is teamed up with a Tuesday meeting two […]
Welcome to today’s segment from our harness racing analyst. Providing you with free expert tips and selections for harness meetings run in New Zealand. Harness racing hits Manawatu again today with eight races on the card . The racing starts at 4:45pm and we highlight some specials and value runners we think can give you a […]
A refurbished track and a number of Sunday harness racing meetings will be features of Manawatu’s 2025 season. With the club’s first meetings of the year on next week (February 11 and 13) the Palmerston North track has had a major upgrade. “We have had the top done before but this is bigger than that, […]
Age was no barrier when Doo You Want Me (Captain Crunch) won last Tuesday night’s Café Jacko Palmerstonian at the Manawatu Raceway for local harness racing trainer Stephen Doody. The two year old was up against some well travelled warriors in the sport – like Warloch, the winner of seventeen races and more than a […]
After combining with local trainer Stephen Doody for four second placings on day one at Manawatu, junior driver Crystal Hackett looks well placed to go one better on several runners tonight. “It was pretty frustrating for both me and Stephen running four seconds on Tuesday, but they all raced well and some should have improved […]
The future career of Southland harness racing mare Raklou (Sweet Lou) will take place in Western Australia for Gary Hall Snr. The four year old mare won four races for Ryal Bush trainer Peter Hunter with her biggest win the Group Three Helen Pope Fillies Classic at Ashburton. She also won the Bionic Chance Bracelet […]
Country Cups harness racing continues in the north and Cambridge trainer Arna Donnelly has a trio of runners set to contest the Connie Stewart NZ Sotheby’s Int Realty $20,000 Wairarapa Cup today at Manawatu. Her three runners Rough And Ready (Somebeachsomewhere), Bad Medicine (Bettor’s Delight), and Red Rackham (Vincent), all who have good form on […]
It was business pretty much as usual, and expected, for the House harness racingjuggernaut at Manawatu this week. “I’d anticipated they’d all go good races as most of them had been racing well and we had targeted this meeting for them,” says driver Wilson House, “but it was pretty awesome to get four winners.” All […]
For the first time in a decade, Michael Hay returns to driving today as Manawatu hosts the first of four harness racing meetings in November. Now based in Feilding, Hay works as a qualified builder but over the last few years has become involved in harness racing once again, shoeing for several Manawatu trainers and […]
More meetings, higher stakes, improved facilities and more competitive racing – that’s what the Harness Racing Club is pledging for the next season. The club will host 18 meetings from its Palmerston North Raceway, from October through to May. “That’s six more than last year and back at the same level we were pre-Covid,” says […]
Central Districts horseman Stephen Doody has been the mainstay of the Manawatu Harness Racing community for a number of decades and some good horses have come out of his stable. He launched the career of one of our greatest mares, Blossom Lady, who went on to win $1.3 million and has also trained horses such […]
