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The Mildura Pacing Cup and Golden Easter Egg are the highlight races for Saturday’s harness racing in Australia. Please note that Race 5 at both Mildura and Menangle were first published in HarnessLink’s The Insider newsletter. From early May, these will be exclusive to The Insider. Sign up for free to view exclusive news, race previews and […]
An 11-year-old “freebie” pacer has given Victorian harness racing horseman Mark Riseley his longest priced winner. Night Safari (Safari) had been out of the winner’s circle since November 2019 and, starting the rank outsider at 125/1, led from start to finish last Friday (Sept 6) at Mildura to take out the Park Douglas Printing Pace. […]
Sometimes racing isn’t just about the wins – or the wins aren’t always about crossing the line first! For a small group of Victorian owners, it was enough to see their favorite horse finishing a brilliant second at Melton on Saturday night (July 27) after 26 months on the sidelines and what appeared a career […]
Eighteen-year-old Abby Sanderson became the youngest harness racing driver to win the prestigious $50,000 Mildura Pacing Cup as the Sanderson family completed back to back success in the race. Sent out a well backed $2.20 favorite, Dangerous (Sweet Lou) was driven out of the gate by Sanderson crossing to the pegs ahead of the pole […]
Popular freelance reinsman Neil ‘Pecker’ had to call on all his guile and experience in steering Im Blingin It (Bling It On) to harness racing victory in the $20,000 Euston Club Pace Final at Mildura. A heat winner earlier in the week, Im Blingin It won the battle for the lead from his wide front […]
They say rain is an omen of good luck, so when one of the wettest winters on record pushed South Australian harness racing horseman Andrew Clarke off his property three months ago it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Clarke is enjoying his best season in recent years from his temporary base in […]
While Melbourne harness racing trainer Jody Woodham-Murdoch and husband Richard are enjoying a purple patch with consistent pacer Mac Shadow (Shadow Play), their minds are on the next exciting chapter in their lives. “We’re on a lovely property at Monegeeta, in the Macedon Ranges, and we’ve been there since 2002. But we have the property […]
Passionate harness racing trainer Noel “Lucky” Cameron, who is based at Gol Gol over the river from Mildura, is quick to lay the credit where it’s due for the polish on his handy pacer Ozzie Daybreak (Dawn Ofa New Day). “It’s Midge (Cameron’s wife) who does everything with him – she absolutely fell in love […]
“It’s like we won a Group One – the amount of messages and calls we’ve received from harness racing people everywhere has just been unbelievable and really humbling.” Mildura’s Watson family never gave up on their little battler Fortitudo (Courage Under Fire) – and there was hardly a dry eye in the house at his […]
Affable country Victorian harness racing trainer Danny Weinert wasn’t totally surprised when he bobbed up with a $150/1 winner at his Mildura home track on Tuesday (Feb. 14). Weinert recently decided that four-year-old mare Glitzy All Over (Modern Art) would benefit from an increased workload on the training track. “Early last month she ran a […]
By his own admission, Victorian harness racing trainer-driver Fred Posgate has had an interesting life – but he counts his first winning double recently as one of the pure highlights. Mildura-based Posgate prepares a five-horse team with his wife Angela and the couple recorded the career milestone with pacers Woody Nightshade (Sportswriter) and Puopolo (Santanna […]
Harness racing reinsmen Alex Ashwood and David Smith are both back home from hospital after being involved in a horror fall at Mildura on Friday night (Jul. 15). Ashwood, 28, was left with a fractured wrist, nose and vertebrae as well as a bad facial laceration after he tumbled from Sandra O’Connor-trained Good Onya in […]
It’s been a long road to get his harness racing driver’s licence, but Mildura horseman Aaron Coad hasn’t wasted any time posting his first winner. Coad, who relocated from Broken Hill to Mildura about eight months ago, scored his breakthrough win at just his sixth race drive – three years after he first started working […]
All harness racing wins are special – some are just a little more special than others. And there wasn’t a dry eye in the Attard household when well-travelled pacer Apache Wind (Four Starzzz Shark – Kamwood Elsie (Albert Albert) powered to the line at Mildura on Friday night to score his first victory in nearly […]
Bernie Winkle is officially harness racing’s King of Mildura. Last Friday’s victory in the Tankard Dental Pace, captured with yet another dazzling last-lap sprint, helped the eight-year-old become the winningest pacer or trotter at the famed Sunraysia circuit. He was locked on 27 Mildura wins with Colin Rogers’ evergreen gelding Murranji Track, but moved one […]
