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The Waiuku based training partnership of Michelle Wallis and Bernie Hackett were batting 1000 at Cambridge last night, with two harness racing winners from two starters. Both Auctioneer (Orlando Vici) and Aldebaran Crystal (Father Patrick) had their first wins. The partnership predominantly train trotters and their first winner of the night, Auctioneer, was bred to […]
A team that has been winning trotting races for over 20 years combined to work out talented harness racing filly Lil Whip (Father Patrick) at Alexandra Park on Thursday night. The three-year-old filly left maidens when downing stablemate Aldebaran D B in the Book Now for Mid-winter Christmas at Alexandra Park Mobile Trot and while […]
It’s not often you get harness racing of the quality we were treated to today on a Monday afternoon, however Auckland Anniversary Day provided just that with an eight race programme at Cambridge Raceway headlined by the fourth instalment of the $41,500 G3 Waikato Trotting Breeders Stakes. A capacity field of 14 trotting mares greeted […]
Further emphasising the talent New Zealand has in its ranks of young drivers, last night three female junior drivers drove five winners between them on the ten race card at an Auckland Premier race night. Alicia Harrison teamed up with DJ Rock (Rock N Roll Heaven) and Fernleigh Cash (Bettor’s Delight) to win for her […]
It’s been some harness racing journey for Springbank Mason (Majestic Son). The trotter who won his tenth race at Alexandra Park last night, was bred by North Otago trainer Chris McLeod and he won five races for Phil Williamson. Initially he was raced by Ray and Denise Smith whose horses carry the ‘Springbank’ prefix. Their […]
The chances of the Wallis-Hackett stable continuing their golden Alexandra Park trotting season have increased even before tonight’s (Aug. 17) harness racing meeting begins. The perennial leading trotting stable in the north are already up to 21 trotting winners this season and will have six of the eight starters in the feature trot on Thursday. […]
Junior harness racing driver Crystal Hackett is a star on the rise. The nineteen year old has come a long way in a short time and is currently third equal with Ben Hope, in the New Zealand Junior Drivers Premiership. In only her third season of driving she is honing in on her fiftieth winning […]
Champion harness racing trainer of trotters Michelle Wallis says Springbank Mason (Majestic Son) is the best chance of the six she has starting in the main trot at Alexandra Park tonight (Jun. 8) but that assessment comes with a warning. “We are the worst tipsters of our own horses,” laughs Wallis about the horses she […]
Michelle Wallis and Bernie Hackett will have an unusual trans-Tasman dimension to their harness racing team over the next few days. They will have their first Kiwi starter in Sydney on Saturday night and an Aussie will debut for the stable at Alexandra Park on Thursday night. All Cashed Up (Ready Cash) has joined their […]
Harness racing trainers Michelle Wallis and Bernie Hackett will once again have a strong contingent of trotters at Alexandra Park on Friday night. The husband-and-wife duo will have a three-pronged attack in the Primor Produce Hanidcap Trot (2700m), including Special Way (Andover Hall) , Invictus (Peak), and Kings Landing (Muscle Hill). Invictus heads into the […]
