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Riley Harrison admits that harness racing wasn’t on her radar at all as a young person. Nor was she aware that her distant relative Kelvin Harrison was a famed standardbred trainer in America. “I’ve only just found out this stuff since I’ve been in harness racing,” she said. After finishing high school at Rangi Ruru, […]
Riley Harrison has two factors in her favour heading into Friday’s Darren DeFilippi Memorial Handicap Trot at Addington (9.01pm). Not only is she the only driver in the race to have it won previously but she is also driving the highly-fancied Midnight Diamond for her employers Robert and Jenna Dunn. The six-year-old mare was unlucky […]
Junior driver Riley Harrison will be one to follow on a big day at Rangiora today. The meeting will see the Anne Thompson Graduation series for trotters and pacers kick off, along with further heats of the Canterbury Plains Challenge Series, as well as a small yet competitive Waimakariri Businesses Rangiora Winter Cup for $25,000. […]
The irony of her 50th career win at Ashburton yesterday wasn’t lost on Riley Harrison. The 24-year-old brought up the milestone with perennial place-getter Barrytown in the Jackson Spreading Mobile Trot. “It’s funny that a horse that nearly always finds one to beat him got me my 50th win,” she says. And the stats don’t […]
Canterbury junior driver Riley Harrison is for a busy day at Motukarara. She has nine drives on the 12-race programme starting just after noon, many look to be excellent each-way value. Harrison, who works for Woodend Beach trainers Robert and Jenna Dunn, starts her day off in those colours with Amici ($6.50FF) in Race 1, […]
Wearing the same colours that were worn by her great grandmother Hilarious Guest, Major Happy’s (Art Major) win at Rangiora yesterday rekindled memories of that super filly of the early 1980s. Driver Riley Harrison settled Major Happy last in the outside running line before she moved forward to sit parked. When Foveaux Gambler galloped with […]
Canterbury junior driver Riley Harrison will be looking to continue her recent run of form today in the harness racing sulky at the Akaroa meeting held at Banks Peninsula. Harrison has driven 17 winners this season – half of which have come to her in the past two months – as well as driving her […]
Yaldhurst trainer Peter Shennan has been in the harness racing game for a long time and today he trained his third winner when Hanoi Franco (Tintin In America) took out the first race at Methven. “It was good to be shaking hands with guys I hadn’t seen for a long time,” Shennan said after the […]
While many harness racing juniors would love to win a Dominion Handicap or a Rowe Cup, it’s the Darren De Filippi Memorial that twenty three year old Riley Harrison has previously labelled she’d love to win. That ambition came to fruition when Luvavici (Orlando Vici) cleared out to win the feature race by five lengths […]
