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The Robert and Jenna Dunn-trained Ya Rite Darl (NZ) (What The Hill) added another stakes win to her tally when she took out the Group Three Jasmyn’s Gift Fillies & Mares Stakes (2600m) at Oamaru on Sunday. She stepped away well from behind the 20m tape and settled at the rear of the field for driver John […]
Over the forty eight years Robert Dunn has been training, he’s been very fortunate to have had a solid group of loyal clients, all of whom have been with him for a long time. His oldest clients are Ian and Ernie Neumann for whom Dunn trained Casana to win at Richmond Park in June 1987, […]
Fifty seven year old northern horseman Peter Ferguson doesn’t chase the drives these days but has no plans on giving driving away. “I’m happy driving for the stables I’m driving for. In the North Island pretty much all of the main stables have got their own drivers so there are not as many drives going […]
Robert Dunn knows what to do with Always B You long term but the problem is what to do with her right now. The talented mare scored the biggest win of her harness racing career after a beautiful Peter Ferguson drive saw her take all the short cuts to grab the $30,000 Powell Transport North […]
Team Dunn losing their top chance out of the main race at Alexandra Park tonight doesn’t mean they can’t still win it. But harness racing trainer Robert Dunn says snaring the race they’ve sponsored, the Diamond Racing Stables Supporting NZHAT Mobile Pace, has become a lot more difficult and not just because they have had […]
Premiership leading harness racing trainers Robert and Jenna Dunn have a lot of reasons to be confident going into both two-year-old features at Ashburton today. The Sapling Stakes at Group 2 level and the Helen Pope Fillies Classic at Group 3 will highlight today’s card. Race 6, the time-honoured Group 2 $60,000 Rakaia Seed Cleaning […]
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. […]
Team Dunn only has to hold their harness racing form going into Wednesday’s meeting at Addington. The training and driving combination of Robert, Jenna and John Dunn were on fire last week, racking up four wins at Addington, a Wyndham Cup and a further three victories at Motukarara including the Motukarara Stayers Cup. “We had […]
Punters worried about the early-season tactics when Triple G (Downbytheseaside) returns at Addington tonight (Sep. 15) shouldn’t be because harness racing driver John Dunn says the horse will be in charge. Triple G looks to have found the ideal comeback race in the $40,000 Woodlands Stud Sires’ Stakes Harness 7000 race which he is eligible […]
Henry Hubert (Bettor’s Delight) has been one of New Zealand harness racing’s great war horses. Having raced since he was two, he’s now won fifteen races and close to $400,000. Today in the Ranfurly Transport Limited/RD Petroleum FFA at Omakau the eight year old, trained by Robert and Jenna Dunn, had to draw on all […]
Harness racing trainer Robert Dunn who trains Triple G (Downbytheseaside) with his daughter-in-law Jenna, knows he’s got a real challenge ahead in Friday night’s (May 12) Garrards Sires’ Stakes Final at Addington. Although Triple G has only been beaten once in five starts, he’s up against the All Stars stable which trains the hot favourite […]
Exciting three-year-old Triple G (Downbytheseaside) is among an outstanding harness racing team Diamond Racing take to Rangiora on Sunday (Apr. 30). Triple G goes into the Rangiora Three-Year-Old Stakes after producing three excellent performances this time in. The pacer has won twice, with his only defeat coming in a strong second placing behind star three-year-old […]
What happened at Addington on November 11, 2022 is exactly how a great horse should end his harness racing career. That great horse, a champion, was Sundees Son (Majestic Son). And the $300,000 Renwick Farms Dominion was the race he never should have won. If you were there or have seen it, you will never […]
A winning harness racing double at Alexandra Park on Friday night (Jan. 20) didn’t put the usual smile on senior training partner Robert Dunn’s face. Because he wasn’t there to enjoy it, being at the far less enjoyable Middlemore Hospital south of Auckland after an early morning track accident. Dunn was getting MRI scans around […]
Henry Hubert (Bettor’s Delight) has been one of New Zealand harness racing’s great war horses. Having raced since he was two, he’s now won fifteen races and close to $400,000. Today in the Ranfurly Transport Limited/RD Petroleum FFA at Omakau the eight year old, trained by Robert and Jenna Dunn, had to draw on all […]
After a stellar weekend of harness racing results in the South Island which saw them winning five races, Robert & Jenna Dunn have closed the gap on their Stonewall Stud contemporaries, Amanda & Steve Telfer in the New Zealand trainers premiership. In doing so they have lit the fuse on another storyline that will dovetail […]
Harness Racing New Zealand has welcomed one of the country’s leading trainers to their board this week. Robert Dunn has been appointed the Auckland Trotting Club’s representative following the departure of Shaun Brooks, who leaves after a change in work circumstances. Dunn has had a lifelong involvement in harness racing and feels it is the […]
Promising 3yo trotter Highgrove (Love You) gave the Robert and Jenna Dunn training team their first Group One harness racing victory tonight, when he demolished a good field in the Breckon Farms (Gr1) 2022 $100,000 Northern Trotting Derby at Alexandra Park. Highgrove took his record to 10 wins from 17 starts in the Derby tonight, […]
Champion trotter Sundees Son has smashed the New Zealand mobile 2600m record tonight by nearly two seconds, when winning the (Gr1) Fred Shaw Memorial NZ Trotting Championship for harness racing trainers Robert and Jenna Dunn. Driven aggressively by driver John Dunn, Sundees Son ran the 2600m mobile in a lung busting 3-10.4 representing a mile […]
