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THE prospect of taking on two-time New Zealand Cup winner Swayzee doesn’t bother leading harness racing trainer David Aiken. His stable star Max Delight (Bettor’s Delight) has had a brief let-up since finishing fifth to Kingman at Menangle in mid-September. Of course, Kingman went on to put up an extraordinary performance to win the Victoria Cup. […]
HE’s closing in on 1000 driving wins in his harness racing career and Michael Stanley has found a happy home since settling at Menangle. The former Victorian felt the time was right to make the move north to chase the bigger prizemoney races. And while experienced pair Rocknroll Doo and Ubetcha Tigerpie were the two […]
FORMER Victorian Michael Stanley has been the man to man to follow at Tabcorp Park Menangle this week. And his fabulous form since making Menangle his permanent harness racing base is set to continue on Saturday night at the No.1 track. Stanley’s week to remember began when one of his stable’s leading lights Ubetcha Tigerpie (Betting Line) ran […]
There might not be too many dry eyes at Tabcorp Park Menangle should the well-backed Fighter Command (Always B Miki) win Saturday night’s $2.1m TAB Eureka, the world’s richest harness race. That’s because the late great champion reinsman Greg Sugars would have been aboard the four-year-old for his trainer-partner Jess Tubbs if not for his untimely death […]
CHAMPION Bathurst driver Amanda Turnbull doesn’t take too many drives outside of her family’s horses. Yet she was quick to agree to drive improving square-gaiter Im Bobby at Tabcorp Park Menangle on Saturday night when the harness racing gelding chases his fourth successive win with four different drivers. Im Bobby has drawn gate nine in Race 4, the […]
LITTLE wonder leading Victorian horseman Michael Stanley has decided to make his move to Sydney a permanent one. Bringing a select harness racing team to train at Menangle has proven a master stroke by Stanley, who has a string of winners since renting boxes at Menangle Training Centre. He scored another win at Menangle on Saturday night […]
ACE Victorian trainer Emma Stewart heads back to Menangle on Saturday night chasing another feature win with up and coming pacer Luv The Highlife (Poster Boy). She’s unbeaten from two starts and related to a modern day champion, so it’s only a matter of time before Luv The Nitelife is compared to her famous half-sister. […]
IT’S one of the biggest nights of harness racing of the year. And tonight’s Chariots Of Fire meeting at Club Menangle has gun reinsman Cameron Hart eyeing a shot at history in the Group 1 feature. Hart won last year’s Chariots Of Fire with Frankie Ferocious and tonight hopes to become the first reinsman to […]
HE has an amazing strike rate, landing a harness racing winner once in every four drives. And it takes some seriously-talented horseflesh to lure premier reinsman Greg Sugars out of Victoria. Yet the 40-year-old reinsman, fast closing in on his 4000th career winner, hits Menangle on Saturday night in search of a treble for top […]
The lone mare in Saturday night’s $500,000 TAB Inter Dominion Pacers Grand Final at Tabcorp Park Menangle might bring a few of the ‘boys’ undone. My Moonlite Dream has been tipped as the early leader in the Group 1, leaving her harness racing trainer-drive Seaton Grima with quite a decision. Certainly, the mare, a $14 […]
The Locomotive (Muscle Mass) may start an odds-on favourite for the $150,000 TAB Inter Dominion Trotters Final after drawing gate four for next week’s showdown at Club Menangle. The star mare expected to be his major hurdle, Queen Elida, draw right beside him in gate five, ensuring the final should be a real battle of […]
He may have been the best performed pacer in the three harness racing heats but Goulburn pacer Captains Knock (Captaintreacherous) will need some luck after drawing gate 9, the inside of the second row, for next weekend’s $500,000 TAB Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final. On the other hand, champion horseman Luke McCarthy left Menangle […]
He’s the King of Menangle. And now he’s the proud winner of the two richest harness races ever run in the world. Luke McCarthy showed he wasn’t ready to relinquish his crown as the King Of Menangle with a magnificent victory with Don Hugo (Art Major) in Saturday night’s $2.1m TAB Eureka at Tabcorp Park Menangle. […]
IT seems a winning double is no trouble for leading harness racing reinsman Cameron Hart these days. The state’s premier driver landed a winning double at Young on Friday night and backed that up with another two winners at Menangle on Saturday night. Now the 25-year-old reinsman will look for a repeat performance at Menangle […]
Ignore this state’s leading harness racing reinsman at your peril at Tabcorp Park Menangle on Saturday night. Yet that’s exactly what Cameron Hart will be hoping for when he takes to the track with trainer Jason Grimson’s latest hotshot Frankie Ferocious (Captaintreacherous) in the $250,000 Cordina Chicken Farm Chariots Of Fire. Unbeaten since joining Grimson’s […]
He may never have trained an out-and-out champion, but Jimmy Caffyn was a lot more to harness racing than that. He was a champion bloke and our sport will be all the poorer with his passing on Sunday, at the age of 84. Jimmy’s wife and lifelong partner Kay passed away just seven months ago […]
Fresh from driving nine harness racing winners in the last three days Cameron Hart has some big races on the horizon. While harness fans are still in awe of two-year-old filly Lux Aeterna’s (Captaintreacherous) record-breaking win in Sunday’s $150,000 Breeders Challenge Final at Menangle, Hart is just as keen on the prospects of two of […]
With five wins from seven starts for the harness racing stable, Ardens Delight (Bettors Delight) has quickly become one of Jack Trainor’s favourite pacers. The former Kiwi mare, by boom sire Bettors Delight, will be out to add to that record again tonight at Tabcorp Park Menangle. And again, Trainor might find himself looking at […]
One winner is regarded as a disappointing night for star Sydney harness racing reinsman Cameron Hart these days. And while he did score one of the most impressive wins at Tabcorp park Menangle on Saturday night with improving pacer Hi Manameisjeff (Art Major), Hart is set for a mammoth day at the south-western Sydney track […]
Popular training partners Joe and Mary Rando will be out to spoil a McCarthy harness racing party at Menangle tonight. The Menangle-based team may have three starters in the $25,500 Trotters Carousel Final, a race which has returned to the calendar after a long absence. Toro Stride (Love You), perfectly-drawn in gate four, will come […]
Goulburn horseman Brad Hewitt has an exciting team of harness racing youngsters coming through his stable at the moment. Yet it’s Hewitt’s tried-and-tested performers that will hold centre stage at Tabcorp Park Menangle tonight (Sep. 16) with chances in four of the better-class races. The best of those appears to be the improving six-year-old gelding […]
Exciting young reinsman Bailey McDonough looks the man to follow at Menangle today with one of his best books of harness racing drives since making the move from Victoria about two months ago. McDonough cut his teeth working for a number of top trainers in Victoria, as well as his father Allan before deciding to […]
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone disappointed with Saturday night’s $2.1m TAB Eureka harness racing result. The winner, exciting mare Encipher (Captaintreacherous), was driven by a champion reinsman from NSW, Luke McCarthy, trained by Victoria’s leading trainer Emma Stewart and bred and largely owned by South Australians, the Linke family. Yet no-one was more […]
Superstar status goes on the line at Menangle tonight when short-priced favourite Leap To Fame (Bettor’s Delight) tackles the richest harness race ever run in the Southern Hemisphere. He’s already the pride of Queensland and tonight that reputation faces its toughest test when the four-year-old takes on some of the best pacers in Australasia in […]
