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Lincoln Farms harness racing trainers Ray Green and Nathan Delany are on a roll and with the quality bloodstock they have in their barn it’s likely to continue. Success is not new to senior partner Ray Green. He’s trained 429 winners on his own account, 80 with Robert Mitchell, 67 with Delany and one with […]
As the dust begins to settle on another busy breeding season, the harness racing world quickly turns its focus toward the yearling sales, weaning foals and watching the early two-year-olds step out for the first time. At Cobbitty Equine Farm, the 2025/26 season was one of our best yet, with strong support across our stallion line-up. Breeders […]
There’s an element of excitement at Southland’s breeding nursery Macca Lodge. As the North American stakes season starts to ramp up two stallions on the Macca Lodge roster, Perfect Sting and Six Pack, are delivering top end results. Headlining the Macca Lodge front page is Nordic Catcher, a three year old son of Six Pack […]
Southern harness racing nursery Macca Lodge has twelve weanlings earmarked for this month’s NZB Standardbred National Standardbred Weanling Sale at Karaka. The weanlings will leave Macca Lodge for the 1,500 kilometre trip on Saturday morning and arrive in Auckland on Monday. “We took some up a couple of years ago and the trip went well. […]
The progeny of trotting stallion Father Patrick are enjoying a golden run at the moment. His stock has won 33 races so far this season with Meant To Be and Duchess Maria leading the way. Meant To Be has won a Listed and two Group One races while Duchess Maria’s three wins have been at […]
Perfect Sting p, 3, 1:48.1 ($1,733,981), a son of Always B Miki, out of the Bettor’s Delight mare Shebestingin, sees his first crop of harness racing youngsters offered for sale this fall. The Standardbred Horse Sale at Harrisburg, which begins today (Nov. 4), will offer 40 Perfect Sting’s babies to prospective buyers. Perfect Sting has […]
The owners of Macca Lodge in New Zealand, along with Brittany Stallion Management and the Perfect Sting Syndicate, announced today that Perfect Sting will be available to New Zealand breeders for the upcoming harness racing breeding season. The stallion’s frozen semen will be distributed by worldwide leader Select Breeders with its final destination Macca Lodge, […]
It has been discovered that Perfect Sting had a positive test back on June 26, 2021, when he was second then placed first in the $148,332 Pennsylvania Sire Stake for harness racing 3-year-old male pacers at The Meadows. A split sample was also sent to the labs and was found to be also positive for […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The Meadowlands is announcing that two popular Grand Circuit harness racing stakes for older mares have been retitled for 2022 to represent a pair of exciting new sires that stand at Deo Volente Farms in New Jersey. The Open Mare Trot previously known as the Joie De Vie will become the […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Perfect Sting has been retired to stand stud at Deo Volente Farms of New Jersey. His ownership of Brittany Farms and Val D’Or Farm, represented by trainer Joe Holloway, have applied for a waiver from the Stallion Restriction Condition (SRC), better known as the “Gural Rule” which would have prohibited his […]
Perfect Sting, the undefeated Dan Patch Champion at 2 and Breeders Champion at both 2 and 3, will enter stud in 2022 and stand at Deo Volente Farms in Flemington, N.J. His initial fee has been set at $10,000. Syndication is underway for the promising young stallion, who is owned by George Segal’s Brittany Farms […]
After a perfect 10-for-10 campaign in 2020 that led to Dan Patch Award honors as the 2-year-old Colt Pacer of the Year, expectations were high that Perfect Sting would return this year and keep a firm hold atop the 3-year-old harness racing division. After a bit of a bumpy start in his first three starts […]
