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Good chances with bad draws sum up the Blanchard trio of trotters at Cambridge tonight. But co-trainer Vaughan Blanchard, who trains with his father Peter, says any one of their three square-gaiters could overcome their setbacks on a busy night for the harness racing stable. The Pukekohe trainers will take six reps to the races […]
Trainer Vaughan Blanchard says one of their stable’s busiest days of the year wasn’t entirely planned to be that way. But he still thinks they can come away from Ruakaka with a couple of winners on Monday. Blanchard and his father Peter take eight horses to the grass track meeting as harness racing returns to […]
Aged trotting mare Ruby Ridge (Majestic Son) will have her one hundredth and last start at the Waikato/BOP Harness meeting tomorrow night at Cambridge. She races in the Betavet Buildagut Handicap Trot over 2200 metres and will run from a 35 metre handicap. “It’s never easy at Cambridge off a mark, especially over 2200 metres. […]
Champion harness racing trainer Mark Purdon saddled up his first galloping winner at Ellerslie today. Buster Shaw in the hands of Jasmine Fawcett took out the first race for Purdon, whose horses prior to today’s win had recorded a second and two thirds at the races. Edendale breeders Alex and Karen Milne have had a […]
The Pukekohe training partnership of Peter and Vaughan Blanchard have a team of four harness racing runners tonight at Cambridge Raceway, all with good each way chances. All four of the stable’s horses raced at Cambridge last Tuesday, with Ultimate Mach scoring his maiden victory and stable mate Always B Mine finishing second just 0.75 […]
When little Ruby Ridge (Majestic Son) joined the harness racing stable of Peter and Vaughan Blanchard, she did so as a one win mare with over 27 starts to her name. Five seasons later she has banked over $130,000 and is the winner of 10 races and 22 placings. To say the bonny wee mare […]
When veteran trotter Aveross Majesty (Majestic Son) won at Oamaru recently for trainer Denis O’Connell, the win took the horse’s stake earnings to over the $100,000 mark. The eight year old gelding qualified at Ashburton as a four year old for Andrew Faulks and had seven starts for his stable before O’Connell took over. Aveross […]
Two training doubles by Peter and Vaughan Blanchard and Luk Chin highlighted Friday night’s harness racing action at Cambridge Raceway. The Blanchard father-son combo kicked off their night with Majestic Bundy (Majestic Son), driven by Zachary Butcher, who was successful in Race one, the Watchu Security Mobile Trot. The four-year-old Majestic Son mare started off […]
Father and son harness racing trainers Peter and Vaughan Blanchard line up six runners late on the card at Cambridge Raceway tomorrow night. The pair begin their quest in Race Five with three year old filly Acushla Machree (Vincent). “I thought she went pretty good fresh up and she’s not a bad three year old. […]
