When Victorian harness racing horseman Adam Stephens and his father Allan drove to a stud clearing sale about 15 years ago, they had no idea how lucky the trip would prove to be. “Well-known breeder John Campbell had sold up and had a heap of horses on offer at his property near Boort,” Stephens recalled. […]
New Zealander Paxton Conder knew little about harness racing’s Llowalong Farms stud prior to being introduced to its owner, Kath McIntosh, by Ken Breckon from Breckon Farms. Based in the Waikato, Conder recently launched her own marketing business and is being contracted by Llowalong Farms to promote the New Zealand side of their business. “I […]
At first glimpse Poster Boy and Soho Tribeca are very different individuals and their harness racing careers suggest that also, but if you dig a little deeper you will soon see quite a few similarities. Poster Boy blasted his way onto the racetrack winning 7 of his first 8 starts, going on to have a […]
Lindsay and Mary Vagg, the faces behind the Victree Standardbreds banner, are one of the many success stories of the Australian Pacing Gold sales-race series in Brisbane. The couple, who live on a 530 acre property at Southbrook on the Darling Downs, have already produced two winners of the Group 1 Brisbane APG Sales Graduate […]
They were born fours years apart and have different dad’s but they are both handsome individuals and have a mum who is by the greatest sire of broodmares in the history of harness racing. Yankee Rockstar and Poster Boy are their given names, consigned to them by their breeders Bill and Anne Anderson who trade […]