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Glitter Aint Gold (Bling It On) followed up his win last week with yet another powerful display when he stormed home to take out the Alf Phillis Free For All at Menangle on Saturday evening. Although he was racing in similar company to his last start win Glitter Aint Gold was not highly fancied due […]
Up and comer Glitter Aint Gold made amends for his last start failure with a well timed burst to take out the Kevin Newman Free For All at Menangle on Saturday evening. Only last week at his previous start Glitter Aint Gold had a torrid run before finishing at the rear after racing wide for […]
One of the State’s most improved pacers Glitter Aint Gold (Bling It On) showed he’s capable of mixing in the better classes with a strong harness racing win in the Paul Fitzpatrick Free For All at Menangle on Saturday night. The race saw Ubetcha Tigerpie installed a hot favourite and he was expected to finalise […]
Much travelled local pacer Wheres The Gold (Somebeachsomewhere) caused a boilover when he narrowly edged out his harness racing rivals in the Oberon Quarries and Oberon Trash-Pak Oberon Cup at Bathurst on Friday evening. Confidently driven by young ace Jett Turnbull, Wheres The Gold who was friendless in the betting flew out of the gate […]
Seventeen-year-old reinswoman Kirra Langelaar made the decision to switch from rugby league to harness racing two years ago, and is now celebrating the first win of her driving career. Langelaar steered Our George Boston (Betting Line) to victory at Bathurst (September 3) when the six-year-old gelding, trained by Nathan Turnbull, finished strongly up the sprint […]
A daring harness racing drive by up and comer junior reinsman Jett Turnbull was the primary factor in Glitter Aint Gold (Bling It On) scoring a dashing win in the $100,000 Listed TAB Regional Championships State Final at Menangle last night. In a keen betting race, Glitter Aint Gold who had won the Bathurst regional […]
Leading Bathurst trainer-driver Nathan Turnbull will be a noted absentee from harness racing form guides in upcoming weeks with the busy horseman taking a well-earned break to travel with his family to the United States. But the same cannot be said for his star juvenile Better Be The Best (Shoobees Place), as he will continue […]
In the world of Australasian harness racing, where age group features have a tendency to be dominated by a couple of horses in the market, starting quotes of $1.10 and $1.20 for a pair of $100,000 Group Two finals are still somewhat of a rarity. That was the situation presented with Tin Tin Jo (Tintin […]
Just four months into the 2023 harness racing year, Bathurst trainer-driver Nathan Turnbull has had his best start ever to a season. The 40-year-old has held his own within the ranks since building up his horse numbers, and last term recorded an impressive 132 wins as a reinsman and 117 as a trainer. Presently and […]
He watched his grandfather and his father win Miracle Miles with the likes of Hondo Grattan and Smooth Satin. Yet Nathan Turnbull grabbed a race even his father Steve was unable to win when his talented harness racing colt Better Be The Best (Shoobees Place) scored the grittiest of wins in tonight’s Group 1 $200,000 […]
Bathurst harness racing horseman Nathan Turnbull made sure he relished the final quarter of tonight’s (Nov. 12) NSW Breeders Challenge Blue Final at Menangle. Driving his beloved Shoobees Place colt Better Be The Best, the pair kicked clear of their rivals to win the $100,000 feature by 23 metres giving Turnbull his first Group 1 […]
With the fastest closing quarter in harness racing’s Group 1 NSW Breeders Challenge Final last Saturday night (Oct. 29) connections of Bathurst pacer Better Be The Best (Shoobees Place) have mixed feelings. The two-year-old finished second in the feature to Captains Knock and gave away the race when breaking gait at the start and ran […]
Despite coming up against boom Victorian colt Major Celebrity, Bathurst harness racing trainer-driver Nathan Turnbull headed into last Saturday night’s New South Wales Breeders Challenge semi-final confident that his youngster, Better Be the Best (Shoobees Place) could spring an upset. Unbeaten since returning from a spell, Better Be The Best was sent out as second […]
The Bathurst Gold Crown is a race that harness racing trainers right across Australasia yearn to win. But for the locals it is a burning desire to have horses capable of competing in the Group 1 feature in the hope that they can take the Crown in front of their hometown crowd. There have been […]
Bathurst harness racing trainer-driver Nathan Turnbull can reflect on the 2021 season as one to remember. Turnbull is well-known for his willingness to travel to any place his horses can win races. The oldest son of multiple premiership winner Steve Turnbull trained 57 winners and 129 placegetters during 2021 and chalked up 58 winners as […]
Each week Harness Racing New South Wales takes you through some of the highlights from all the meetings across the state, the big bets – good and bad – as well as some to follow. Lets’ start! Mr 500 and has cake and doesn’t eat it too! The countdown has been on for a few […]
Nathan Turnbull is the eldest of Steve and Jenny Turnbull’s ‘brood’ and has been in and out of the harness racing industry over the past two decades. But he is now firmly entrenched in the sport and is a big asset to harness racing right throughout the Western District and beyond. Currently working 17 horses […]
