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Bruce and Vicki Edward’s Durham Park Standardbreds has been one of the largest and most successful vendors at Victorian yearling sales for more than a decade. Among the host of ‘black type’ performers they have bred and sold at the sales are the Auckland Cup and Harness Jewels victor Turn It Up ($928,525), Barimah ($477,144), […]
Tall Dark Stranger is a son of Bettors Delight and there are expectations that the former harness racing USTA 2yo Colt Pacer of the Year will become his sire’s most successful siring son. His first American yearlings were offered in the back half of 2023 and he had 23 yearlings reach the magical $100,000 mark […]
Blanche and Dean Poole both come from a farming background and, typically for people involved with Standardbreds, have a deep and abiding love of harness racing horses. With a CV that includes working at various times for a number of leading nurseries including Alabar Farms, Karamea Farm and Concorde Park, Blanche and Dean purchased their […]
The sub-2:00 harness racing win on debut of the American Ideal 3yo filly Ultimate Joy at Maryborough on Monday gave her dam Lombo Cloud Nine a perfect four from four with her current 2yo now named and in the stables of Russell Jack. Lot 263 in the Nutrien Melbourne Yearling Sale on the weekend of […]
Star New Zealand gelding We Walk By Faith (Bettor’s Delight) is heading back to his country of birth and is expected to start in a heat of the NSW Derby on March 2nd for harness racing trainers Mark and Nathan Purdon. The $200,000 Group One final of the NSW Derby is set down for Miracle […]
The Nutrien experience heads north in 2023 as we partner with the Albion Park Harness Racing Club to deliver the Sunshine Stars Yearling Sale. Set to take place across the weekend of March 11 and 12, 2023, at the iconic Magic Millions sales complex, it will be an experience not to be missed. A weekend […]
Harness racing’s Durham Park ventures to a Nutrien Equine Standardbred Yearling Sale as a vendor for the first time at Oaklands Junction on Sunday, April 3. The Central Victorian nursery, established by Bruce and Vicki Edward in 2006 and located south of Ballarat, is putting five lots through the sale ring – headlined by a […]
Pat Driscoll has been vigorous in the pursuit of improving harness racing’s trotting bloodlines in Australasia over the past decade. Through Haras des Trotteurs, Driscoll has made a selection of Europe’s best-bred stallions and most successful bloodlines to Australian and New Zealand breeders. The Haras de Trotteurs’ “French Revolution” has been headed by the likes Love […]
The Stallions Australasia sires Southwind Frank, Tactical Landing, Trixton, Wishing Stone and Royalty For Life are all represented at harness racing’s Nutrien Equine Yearling Sale at Oaklands Junction on April 3. Southwind Frank has two entries, one a colt out the Breeders Crown heat winner Naked Majesty (Lot 205) and the other a filly from […]
