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Quality trotting mare Eurostyle (Orlando Vici) has been retired. “We’re gutted. I brought her into her box one morning and her hind joint was swollen and she couldn’t put her leg on the ground. It’s turned out that she’s torn some ligaments. She’s sound now and at the stud, but she could easily damage it […]
Despite uncertain times, Paul Howlett, Canterbury blacksmith, breeder and owner, remains positive about harness racing’s future. “I leave it to the people that get paid well. I just worry about putting shoes on horses and getting young people into the game. I just love going to the races with my mates and having a few […]
Eurostyle (Orlando Vici) was on her best behaviour tonight, impressively winning the $40,000 G3 Lamb and Haywood Trotters’ Classic at Addington. “I think she can foot it with the best trotters here when she’s right. She’s obviously been a headache (for her trainers) but when she’s on, she’s very good,” driver Kimberly Butt said. Father […]
Most young people would run a mile if they were asked to prepare eighteen high end yearlings for next month’s NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales at Karaka, but not twenty four year old Jamie Bartlett. “I was lucky enough to work at Alabar which gave me a lot of confidence. I’ve learned from a young age, […]
Luk Chin brought up a milestone when Voronov (Orlando Vici) won at Cambridge last night, giving him his 200th training win. Of the 200, Luk has driven 159 himself. His biggest wins as a trainer have been the 1992 Group Two New Zealand Trotting Derby with Lady Cabello, the Group Three Northern Trotting Breeders Stakes […]
Frozen semen stallions are well and truly making their presence felt on Australian and New Zealand racing and breeding, particularly among the ranks of trotting sires. In fact, four of the ten richest square-gaiters ever bred in the southern hemisphere – Just Believe, I Can Doosit, Muscle Mountain and Queen Elida – were sired by […]
Adele Jones has an eye for good bloodstock and her training partnership with her husband Derek has taken this harness racing couple on a journey with many successful highlights. Derek has been a farrier for all his adult life while Adele comes from an equestrian background. “I just pottered around, got young thoroughbreds off the […]
Harnesslink presents harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America brought to you by Yabby Dam Farms & Racing! Yabby Dam Racing, principal Pat Driscoll’s dream to breed and race world class trotters was born after seeing a billboard on the Champs Elysees in Paris advertising the famous trotting race the […]
If there was even the slightest bit of doubt as to the champion qualities of the Jess Tubbs-trained harness racing superstar Just Believe (Orlando Vici), he answered every question and some with a powerful display in tonight’s $110,000 G1 National Trot at Alexandra Park. The manner in which he won his seventh Group One was […]
As far as harness racing contests go, tonight’s inaugural $600,000 TAB Trot Slot bared semblance to that of a Bledisloe Cup clash with a trans-Tasman showdown for the ages. The four Victorian square gaiters, spearheaded by a phenomenal victory by Just Believe (Orlando Vici) and Greg Sugars, gave it to their New Zealand counterparts with […]
Progeny of the Haras Des Trotteurs’ stallions Orlando Vici and Love You occupied the first three positions on the harness racing points table for the Brisbane Inter Dominion after the final round heats on December 9. Just Believe (by Orlando Vici), who is undefeated in the series, collected a maximum 44 points, three more than […]
Harness racing horses sired the Haras Des Trotteurs’ stallions Orlando Vici and Love You occupy three of the top four positions on the Inter Dominion leaderboard after the second round heats on Tuesday (December 5). The Orlando Vici pair Just Believe, the reigning Interdom champion, and Ollivici NZ, who have won both their heats, are […]
The French horse Orlando Vici, one of the Haras Des Trotteurs’ sire roster and who is in second position on the Australian trotting sires premiership with only a dozen starters, was represented by another cup winner in Brandlo Prince during the Easter racing in Victoria. Brandlo Prince, a member of Orlando Vici’s amazing first crop, […]
The decisive win of Inter Dominion champion Just Believe (Orlando Vici) in the Group 3 $30,000 E. B. Cochran Trotters Cup at Ballarat was the harness racing highlight of a busy week for his sire, the French-bred horse Orlando Vici, who is a member of the Haras Des Trotteurs’ sire roster at Ballarat (Vic.). It […]
Ollivici’s (Orlando Vici) star continued to rise when he powered to a dominant harness racing victory in the Group Two A$30,000 Tornado Valley Final (2240m) at Melton. The NZB Standardbred graduate backed up an excellent heat victory to make it a perfect five from five in 2022 when running away from his rivals for an […]
Ollivici (Orlando Vici) continued his rapid rise towards the top of Australia’s trotting ranks with his breakout harness racing victory in the A$30,000 Group Two Aldebaran Park Winter Trotters Cup (2150m) at Bendigo. The NZB Standardbred graduate booked himself a one-way ticket towards this year’s Interdominions when registering his first victory at stakes level by […]
The French stallion Orlando Vici, a nine-time Group winner and a member of harness racing’s Haras Des Trotteurs’ sire roster, left six winners in the space of nine days! Undoubtedly, the highlight was the brilliant last-to-first win of Adelle NZ in the Group 2 $30,000 John Slack Memorial Trotters Cup at Ballarat. It was her […]
The premier harness racing meeting at Vincennes racetrack in Paris last Sunday proved a red letter day for Haras Des Trotteurs’ stallions, who sired the winners of two of the five Group 1’s. Brillantissime’s four-year-old daughter Intuition won the feature race, the Group 1 240,000 euros Prix President de la Republique, the second-richest monte race […]
When she won harness racing’s Group 3 Carlotta’s Pride Free-for-all at Melton last Saturday (June 11) the Love You mare Queen Elida firmly clinched her claim as the best four-year-old trotting mare in the country. It was her ninth success from her last 10 starts, and she soundly trounced a smart lineup after being required […]
The Love You filly Queen Elida NZ firmly established herself as the top Australian three-year-old of the season when she won the Group 1 $60,000 Victoria Trotters Oaks at Ballarat on Saturday (October 16). Sent straight to the front, the filly survived some early pressure before zipping home in 58.2 seconds to prevail by almost […]
When the five-year-old Orlandos Gift outfinished his rivals at Melton on Monday (August 2) he became the 15th individual winner from 15 Australian-bred starters for his sire, the French bred Orlando Vici. Orlandos Gift, who was bred by Pat Driscoll’s Yabby Dam Farms, is one of the first crop of Orlando Vici which produced 11 […]
