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CHAMPION pacer Leap To Fame will have to overcome the strongest $1 million Miracle Mile field in 20 years to win it for a second time at Menangle on Saturday night. It’s the Queensland great’s third crack at Australasia’s premier speed test, having won in 2024 and finishing a brave and close second to Don Hugo last […]
Garrards Miracle Mile, Australia’s premier Harness Racing event, returns this Saturday at Club Menangle featuring high stakes racing and vibrant festivities. The Grand Circuit event, the Garrards Miracle Mile, is the culmination of an exciting 2-week carnival period. The final field of elite pacers will take on Australasia’s richest 1609 metre Speed Pacing Championship with […]
RECENT history says getting the speed map right for this $1 million Miracle Mile will go a long way towards finding you the winner. Remarkably, six of the past seven winners have led, including Don Hugo last year. The only “rule-breaker” in that time was the great Leap To Fame, when he sat outside the leader and […]
The powerful McCarthy stable has confirmed that talented young harness racing driver Jack Callaghan will take the reins behind Kingman (Always B Miki) in the 2026 Miracle Mile at Menangle. While Callaghan is yet to capture the famous Group 1 feature, the lightweight and highly respected Menangle reinsman has built a strong record in the race and […]
Menangle Park harness racing trainer Jason Grimson will make a three-pronged attack on this Saturday night’s $1million Garrards Miracle Mile at Club Menangle. The premier sprint which is recognised internationally was first run in 1967 and was won by Robin Dundee who posted a record-breaking time of 1:59. Over the past 58 years, the prestigious […]
EMERGING Queensland star The Janitor (Always B Miki) is firming to win the $1 million Miracle Mile he wasn’t going to run in. Co-trainer and driver Pete McMullen revealed he and wife, Chantal Turpin, only ran The Janitor only ran The Janitor at Menangle last Saturday night to qualify for the “consolation” of the Miracle […]
Don’t write off Victoria’s sole representative, the ageless Bulletproof Boy (Art Official), in harness racing’s sprint showcase, Saturday night’s $1 million Garrard’s Miracle Mile at Menangle. That’s the message from trainer Scott Ewen, who admits a horror draw of gate seven has made the 11 year-old’s task tougher, but insists his pin-up pacer shouldn’t be […]
THE baby of the field could thwart champion pacer Leap To Fame’s quest for a second $1 million Miracle Mile crown next Saturday night. Captains Mistress, a stunning winner of last night’s Group 1 Chariots Of Fire, is ideally draw in gate four in her quest to create history as the first four-year-old mare to […]
CHAMPION horseman Luke McCarthy is confident he can add to his recent dominance of the $1 million Miracle Mile this year. The 43-year-old has driven four of the past six Miracle Mile winners and has three key contenders – Kingman, Don Hugo and Eye Keep Smiling – to add to that. But first all three […]
Eighteen-year-old reinsman Jye Coney has been handed the biggest opportunity of his young career, with leading harness racing trainer Jason Grimson entrusting him with Rakero Rocket and Chase A Dream in Saturday night’s Miracle Mile qualifiers at Menangle. Rakero Rocket is currently quoted at $7.00 on TAB fixed odds for the March 14 Miracle Mile […]
RAMPAGING Menangle harness racing trainer Jason Grimson could have half the field in next month’s $1 million Miracle Mile. Grimson’s powerhouse line-up of open-class pacers will see him have at least five runners across the four qualifying races for Australasia’s premier speed test, starting with Rakero Rocket in Friday night’s $100,000 Group 2 Newcastle Mile. […]
FOR all his success, the Miracle Mile is the race Jason Grimson desperately wants to win. Grimson has already won Inter Dominion finals, two NZ Cups, a Hunter Cup, a Victoria Cup and so much more. Now he’s got two of the eight runners – Swayzee (Rock N Roll Heaven) and Captain Ravishing (Captaintreacherous)- on […]
THE more people you talk to, the more spice there promises to be at the start of this $1 million Miracle Mile. Don Hugo has blazing early speed, Sooner The Bettor is one of fastest harness racing beginners in NZ, Captain Ravishing once led a TAB Eureka field on his ear and emerging Kiwi pacer […]
THIS is Leap To Fame’s (Bettor’s Delight) greatest harness racing test yet. The champion pacer has an 80 per cent winning strike rate (48 wins from 60 starts), boasts 11 Group wins and created history last year when he became the horse to win a Miracle Mile from a barrier (seven) wider than six. But […]
Cordina Sprint winners Swayzee (Rock N Roll Heaven) and Don Hugo (Art Major) have come up trumps after the harness racing barrier draws were released for the 2025 $1million Miracle Mile this morning. Swayzee drew barrier two with Don Hugo in three, but with the number one draw going to the second emergency Bulletproof Boy, Swayzee […]
A smart trial, followed by an impressive exhibition workout has Victoria’s Sanderson harness racing team in the Goulburn Valley looking with high hopes toward the $1M Garrards Miracle Mile on tomorrow night week (Mar 8). Their star pacer Dangerous (Sweet Lou) is first up from a spell after his Inter Dominion campaign in December (an […]
FORMER NRL star Jarrod Croker will be cheering from Las Vegas in the hope his star pacer Captains Knock (Captaintreacherous) can snare a Miracle Mile berth. Croker, who retired in 2023, is the top try scorer and highest points scorer in Canberra Raiders history across a stellar 307-game career. He’s in Vegas as part of […]
SWAYZEE’S (Rock N Roll Heaven) shock Albury Cup defeat could be a win for the $1 million Miracle Mile. Trainer Jason Grimson said a change of plans to tackle the Miracle Mile qualifiers on March 1 was now likely after his mighty harness racing stayer struggled with the tight-turning Albury track but still got within […]
AUSTRALIA’S top young harness racing driver Cam Hart has put his faith in sprint specialist Hi Manameisjeff (Art Major) in his quest for a “dream” first Miracle Mile win on Saturday night. Hart has jumped off last week’s sparkling Group 1 Chariots Of Fire winner Frankie Ferocious to drive Hi Manameisjeff, largely because of a […]
The southern region of New Zealand has a strong harness racing connection to Saturdays Miracle Mile at Menangle. Robin Dundee (Hal Tryax) won the inaugural running in 1967 while other winners with a southern link are Holmes DG (Holmes Hanover), Young Quinn (Young Charles) Baby Bling (Western Terror) and My Field Marshal (Art Major). This […]
Queensland harness racing sensation Leap To Fame (Bettor’s Delight) isn’t just the best horse in this part of the world, he is the most important, too. It takes more than sheer talent to get mainstream cut-through, but that’s exactly what Leap To Fame is starting to do in Australia and he will soon carry that […]
New Zealand’s two Miracle Mile runners have big challenges from their harness racing barrier draws in next Saturday night’s $1million feature at Menangle. Leading hope Don’t Stop Dreaming (Bettor’s Delight), looking to bounce back from a sixth placing in the Chariots Of Fire, will start from barrier six, while Sooner The Bettor drew five (Bettor’s […]
Luke McCarthy’s quest for another Miracle Mile harness racing win starts this weekend. McCarthy, now training in his own name, has four Miracle Mile hopefuls; two of them – Spirit Of St Louis (Sweet Lou) and Bondi Lockdown (Somebeachsomewhere) – both are lining up in Saturday night’s Macarthur FC Pace (1609m) at Menangle on Saturday […]
Leading Victorian harness racing trainer Andy Gath admitted a Miracle Mile win was never part of the agenda. His goal with Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) was simply to win the $250,000 Chariots Of Fire. He did that and tonight Kate and Andy Gath reached a career-high when the four-year-old won the $1m Garrards Miracle Mile […]
