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On Friday night three NZB Standardbred Sales Series races will be held at Addington. The series has been held since 1992, at which time PGG was the Sales Company running the National Sales. We take a look back at those inaugural winners at Alexandra Park. In 1992 the Sales Series for Two Year Old Trotters […]
Races don’t come much more poignant than this. On Sunday, on his home track, the so-called “Mayor of Methven” Ricky May will attempt to train his first official winner in a race named after his late father. The inaugural Terry May Memorial is set to go at 1.43pm, with Ricky driving Blu Diamond, a Captain […]
Ohoka harness racing trainer Tom Bagrie was relatively confident of a good showing from his three year old filly Song Of Seas, (Downbytheseaside) in the first heat of the Nevele R Fillies Series at Addington on Friday night. Bagrie shares in the ownership of Song Of Seas with Claire Sarsfield, Brian Cowley and his partner […]
Southland pacer Dreams Are Free (Captaintreacherous) was too smart when winning the $20,000 Waitaki Hotel Kurow Cup at Oamaru today. Trainer driver Nathan Williamson got the entire away well from the 35 metre mark and he said, “He was quick into his gear and it certainly helps to make up a bit of the handicap […]
Steven Reid trained Nelle Keenan (Downbytheseaside) put her name up in lights at Ashburton today when she broke a New Zealand record in the $40,000 Group Three Helen Pope Memorial. After sitting back early, driver Ricky May send her forward at the 1250 metre mark to lead and there she stayed, showing plenty of determination […]
After landing a treble last Friday night, Ricky May reckons he has got two good winning chances again at Addington on Wednesday. The short and sharp seven race midweek meeting gets underway at 5.05pm with May upbeat about Carrera Tranquilo in Race 2, the Check Out Breckon Farms Weanlings at NZB.com Mobile Pace following her […]
Champion harness racing driver Ricky May is expected to be on the sidelines for the “next two months a least” after suffering a medical event two weeks ago. The 67-year-old collapsed while working on the family farm at Methven, prompting his pacemaker to be activated. May had the device implanted after he fell out of […]
Nineteen year old Seth Hill is one of the rising stars in this country’s junior driver ranks and with thirty wins on board and an association with very good pacer Arthur Selby, (Bettor’s Delight) there’s bound to be a few more before the season ends. Seth is the son of Swannanoa horseman Brendon Hill who […]
Ricky May hopes his fill-in driving proves a bit more productive at Addington tonight. Little Ricky is filling in for Big Johnny (aka John Dunn) while the latter is having a working holiday overseas and that means key harness racing drives like Triple G in the main pace, the Georgia Anderson Happy 21st Birthday Mobile […]
Swannanoa trainer Bennie Hill has some nice stock around him and last night at Addington Rockingood (A Rocknroll Dance) added to the early season feats of Renegade (Captaintreacherous) and Arthur Shelby (Bettor’s Delight). Last night driver Ricky May eased the Brendon Hill trained Rockingood off the gate and took the lead going into the first […]
Oamaru trainer Phil Williamson’s golden run continued at Addington last night when both Jimmy Carter (The Pres) and Atlantic City (Volstead) won their races. Last Friday Becky’s Girl and Tarragindi won for the the stable and between times Our Pinocchio was successful on Thursday at the Forbury Park meeting. Atlantic City was patiently handled by […]
The Sapling Stakes run at Ashburton is New Zealand’s oldest two year old feature and this year’s running will be the 106th. The list of winners includes Young Quinn, Noodlum, Hilarious Guest, Inky Lord, Tuapeka Knight, Terror To Love, Krug and Marketplace. The win in 1998 by Inky Lord (Lordship) was very much a Mid-Canterbury […]
92 year old Methven trainer Terry May chalked up his 350th win when Slyx (Terror To Love) won the Anne Thompson Pacers Graduation Final at Rangiora yesterday. The win was a real family affair with his son Ricky reining the three year old and Ricky’s wife Judy breeding and owning the gelding. In the fourteen […]
Surprisingly Swannanoa harness racing trainer Benny Hill has never had a runner in the New Zealand Derby but tomorrow night that will change when he takes Renegade (Captaintreacherous) to Addington. “He’s had a great campaign this time. A great lead up for this race and I can’t fault him,” Hill said. Hill has trained 283 […]
The special leg paint Rakaia harness racing trainer Warren Stapleton uses is doing wonders for Wild Willow (Art Major) who won yesterday’s Placemakers Oamaru Cup. “It’s a liquid that I paint on. I just add ingredients to what I call a base paint. It doesn’t hurt the horse. One ingredient comes from China and I […]
Ricky May has no doubts about the harness racing horsepower he will be sitting behind in the Lamb And Hayward Canterbury Classic at Addington tonight. But for all the talent of last season’s NZ Cup placegetter Beach Ball (Somebeachsomewhere), May knows tonight’s golden ticket race to this year’s IRT Trotting New Zealand could come down […]
The Williamson name is synonymous with harness racing in Oamaru and in a race sponsored by Phil and Bev Williamson, Aroha Kenny (Love You) delivered a dream result in the $40,000 G3 Jasmyn’s Gift Fillies and Mares Stakes at the Oamaru Harness Racing Club meeting today. “I’ve won a lot of nice races but that […]
Mid Canterbury reinsman Ricky May heads to Addington today with a strong book of harness racing drives at the Coaster Howe racing stables race day. May, who sits 19th on the drivers premiership table with 22 wins so far this season, will take six drives on today’s eight race card. Monaro Meg ($10.00FF) for trainer […]
Empire City (Volstead) is beginning to shape the record of a high end harness racing trotter with her win tonight (May 17) in the $70,000 Group Two IRT New Zealand Sires’ Stakes Three Year Old Trotters Championship, her sixth in just ten starts. From a wide barrier driver Ricky May elected to sit parked early […]
Three year old trotting filly Empire City (Volstead) proved she was all class in tonight’s $40,000 G3 What The Hill @ Woodlands Northern Trotting Oaks at the home of northern harness racing, Alexandra Park. Trained by Phil Williamson, driver Ricky May took her straight to the top and she ran down to the wire to […]
Southland harness racing fans got to witness an exceptional three year old filly the day Mainland Banner (Christian Cullen) won the 2005 Southland Oaks. Going into the final the Robert Dunn trained filly was made a $1.20 favourite on the back of an unbeaten streak that included wins at Ashburton, Kaikoura, Marlborough, Wyndham and Addington. […]
Two of Australia’s most successful harness racing drivers are about to go from the bright lights of Cambridge to the green green grass of Methven. Chris Alford and Greg Sugars will be Team Australia in the ANZAC 1800+ Series at Mt Harding on Sunday and will go head to head with two hometown heroes in […]
A Bledisloe Cup of harness racing’s been confirmed for Methven next month. Four trans-Tasman driving greats – Ricky May, Maurice McKendry, Greg Sugars and Chris Alford – will battle it out in the Anzac 18,000+ series – at Mt Harding on April 14. “I would have thought it was 100-to-one the chances of getting the […]
The connections of Jimmy James Maguire (Bettor’s Delight) have a decision to make but harness racing trainer Brendon Hill thinks he knows what they should do. And he not just saying they should keep racing the talented five-year-old because that means he gets to keep training him. Hill pulled off a great training feat getting […]
