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Cambridge harness racing trainer Mike Berger has travelled south for today’s meeting at Manawatu – and it feels like an ambush. Much to his surprise race 5 is the Happy 70th Birthday Mike Berger Mobile pace. “I didn’t know anything about it,” Berger says, “plus I didn’t want the whole world knowing how old I […]
Harness racing trainer Mike Berger will be at his local racetrack with six horses for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Harness meeting at Cambridge tomorrow night (Jul 20). His first starter will be Rockafilly (Rock N Roll Heaven) in Race Two. The three year old filly qualified on the track seventeen months ago and has […]
Mike Berger may joke these days about his age but that experience is helping him still train plenty of harness racing winners with his small team. Berger captured the first race at Cambridge on Thursday night when trotter Quik Sharnie (Quaker Jet) made it two wins on end in the hands of Ben Butcher, downing […]
Having officially held a harness racing trainers license for 43 years, Cambridge horseman Mike Berger might not be training the numbers he once was accustomed too. Still, speaking with him this morning, you get the feeling he is not too displeased with that fact. “I haven’t got a lot of horses in work, we only […]
Six-win pacer About Turn (Changeover) will continue his harness racing comeback at Cambridge Raceway on Friday when he contests the Waikato Principals Association Handicap Pace (2700m). Retirement beckoned the son of Changeover after a tendon injury last year, but a series of events has resulted in his return to the track. “He had a little […]
