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Savage Seas (Captain Treacherous) caused a major upset when he defeated his more fancied rivals in the Group 3 $50,000 QBred Final for two year old colts and geldings at Albion Park on Saturday night. Prior to his win, Savage Seas had only started on the one occasion for 4th placing in his heat on […]
Queensland’s latest star Dashing (Art Major) continued his winning way with yet another impressive all the way win in the Home Straight Bistro Open Pace at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Pre race Dashing was backed into a firm favourite following the scratching of what would have been his main opponent Speak The Truth. And […]
Well bred gelding Dashing (Art Major) showed his harness racing rivals another clean set of heels when he outsprinted his rivals to take out the Lou Cini Memorial Free For All at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Dashing has been a fairly recent addition to the Shawn Grimsey stable having previously being prepared by Riverina […]
Queensland’s latest pacing star Cheerstolou (Sweet Lou) greeted his introduction in open company with a tearaway all the harness racing win In the Nutrine Equine Free For All at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Driver Nathan Dawson allowed the gelding to storm to the early lead from barrier four heading off the only other runner […]
Former outstanding juvenile filly Lux Aeterna (Captaintreacherous) showed a return to her very best harness racing form when she burst through to win the Group 3 Prydes Easifeed Forever Gold Mares at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Confidently driven by Nathan Dawson Lux Aeterna was drawn on the inside of the second row but was […]
Bonny Queensland harness racing mare Golden Sunset (Skyvalley) caused the first boilover of the Inter Dominion Carnival when she led all the way to hold on in winning the First Heat of the Ladbrokes Inter Dominion Trotting championship at Albion Park on Saturday evening. There was plenty of action early with a false start as […]
Prolific winning mare Chynchilla (Sunshine Beach) held out in a desperate finish to take out the Garrards Horse and Hounds Mares Pace at Albion Park on Saturday evening. There was a great deal of speculation prior to the event with the clash of the four best mares currently racing in Queensland. In addition to Chynchilla, […]
Queensland’s most improved trotter Golden Sunset (Skyvalley) showed her class with a most impressive win In the Pryde’s Easifood Racing Cube Trotters Mobile at Albion Park on Saturday night. And in winning Golden Sunset earned herself a start in next week’s Group 1 $100,000 Macarthur Mile for mares at Menangle Park. https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM03052510.mp4 GOLDEN SUNSET MAY […]
Nathan Dawson has been as dominant as any reinsman ever has been at Albion Park in recent harness racing seasons and the leading Queensland driver will carry the favourite tag into the inaugural Ultimate Driver Championship. Following Wednesday’s big draft at Albion Park, the 29-year-old was quickly installed as the public elect with bookmakers. As […]
Albion Park’s two fast class features last night drew only small harness racing fields but as is the case proved to be intriguing tactical races. The Racing and Sports Open Pace had only five runners but saw the clash of the in form Captain Shuffles (Captain Treacherous) and Wisper a Secret who hadn’t raced since […]
The much improved Captain Shuffles (Captaintreacherous) had few worries In taking out the Racing and Sports.com pace at Albion Park last night. The event continued a fascinating run of fast class races at the Creek over the last few weeks and last night’s race provided yet another interesting harness racing spectacle. Backed into a prohibitive […]
Now that the dust has settled on 2023, it’s time to take a deep dive into the magical harness racing season of Nathan Dawson. What an unbelievable season 2023 was for Nathan Dawson. From start until finish, the winners just kept piling up. It was record-breaking for the proud Queenslander. When time was called on […]
Nathan Dawson’s remarkable season headlined Australian harness racing’s J.D. Watts Awards. Dawson continued the recent dominance of Queensland drivers on a national stage when finished 2023 with a staggering 413 wins, 142 clear of his nearest rival, WA champion Gary Hall Jr (271 wins). Then followed young guns James Herbertson (Victoria) with 252 wins and […]
Nathan Dawson became only the second person in Australasian harness racing history to drive 400 winners in a season when he partnered the Donny Smith trained Mach Daddy (Mach Three) to victory at Redcliffe. The gifted 27-year-old easily surpassed his previous best of 255 wins in the 2019/20 season. Dawson joins champion Victorian Chris Alford […]
Gun young Queensland reinsman Nathan Dawson capped off a successful southern states visit when he steered Not As Promised (Betting Line) to harness racing victory in the Group 1 Victorian Trotters Derby Final at Maryborough. Fresh from taking out the Australian Drivers Championship in Launceston last weekend, Dawson produced a gem of a drive aboard […]
Lighting and thunderstorms ended the Australian Drivers Championship harness racing meeting early in Launceston on Saturday night (Oct. 21). While the horses were warming up for race five on the eight-race program, the storms descended on the Ladbrokes Racing Centre, with stewards ordering horses that were completing their preliminaries back to the stables. Just over […]
Catch up on the week’s harness racing action in our weekly review, thanks to Darren Clayton. THE GOOD Pete McMullen currently leads the Australian Drivers title with 177 wins for the season and with four months of the season to run, is on track to become Queensland’s first winner of the National title since Shane […]
