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Rank outsider Twilight Dancer (Capt Midnight) caused a shock when she finished too strongly to outstay the hot favourite Bridwood Maisey to take out the $75,000 Woodlands Stud Evicus Final for two year old harness racing fillies at Hobart on Saturday night. Bridwood Maisey was considered unbeatable following her effortless wins at Launceston and Hobart […]
Sarah Cotton—well known in thoroughbred circles and also the Clerk of the Course at Hobart harness racing meetings—was called into action in race three. When Stir Me Up, driven by leading junior driver Mitch Ford, broke gear as the starter let them go, the stewards report claims the field was disrupted due to the necessity […]
Junior Driver Mitch Ford goes into Friday’s Launceston harness racing program with a one-win premiership lead, and he is on the cusp of recording a milestone victory. Ford has driven 198 winners in his career, which started in the 2021 season. “I have had a lot of support in my career, obviously it’s very early […]
The Group 1 Ladbrokes Tasmania Cup is the pinnacle of Tasmanian harness racing, and it is a race that all in the island state would like to win, including young reinsman Mitch Ford who will take the reins on Victorian-trained Rackemup Tigerpie (Rock N Roll Heaven) in Saturday night’s (Mar. 18) $150,000 event in Hobart. Ford […]
Mitch Ford has taken out Tasmania harness racing’s premier junior driver series, 2022, the 6ty° Youngbloods Challenge. The six-race series concluded with three heats in Hobart on Sunday night, with the three heats held in Launceston the night prior. Mitch won two races of the series, including heat four with Tourquiose Stride (Somebeachsomewhere), who utilised his pole […]
A driving double from Mitch Ford in Launceston on Friday night has seen the 18-year-old harness racing reinsman draw level with Conor Crook at the top of the state driving premiership. Both Mitch and Conor have driven 41 Tasmanian winners so far during 2022. Mitch kicked off the night when partnering Mach Angelo to victory […]
Brighton based junior driver Mitch Ford took driving honours at Friday night’s Hobart harness racing meeting with a driving treble, the second time in his short driving career that the 18-year-old has achieved the feat. Oneofthelads kicked off his winning run when scoring by a short-half-head in the Great Northern Pace. The gelded son of Caribbean […]
Tasmania’s newest harness racing driver Mitch Ford didn’t have to wait long to record his first winning drive in Hobart on Sunday, it came at only his second race drive, which was 40 minutes after his first drive in a race. Ford, 17, partnered $3.20 favourite Coolhand Easton for Bianca Heenan, life partner of Mitch’s brother […]
