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Swannanoa horseman Bronson Munro has a wider than usual smile on his dial last night. He made the call to buy recently qualified southern filly Easton Doll (Sweet Lou) from Gore trainer Brian Norman. “The beautiful thing about Brian is he’s no bullshit. He just said the horse wasn’t his cup of tea,” Munro said […]
Scott Phelan isn’t sure whether he has trained four harness racing winners on a night before but he knows he had never trained five. Until last night. Phelan and senior training partner Barry Purdon dominated Friday night’s Alexandra Park card training five winners from six races they had reps in, winning all the pacing races […]
Star northern three-year-old Merlin (Art Major) is nearly ready to resume his harness racing battles with Don’t Stop Dreaming (Bettor’s Delight) even after missing a workout last weekend. But he faces going into the next round of their arch rivalry without a race under his belt whereas Don’t Stop Dreaming will be back on the […]
Junior harness racing driver Crystal Hackett is a star on the rise. The nineteen year old has come a long way in a short time and is currently third equal with Ben Hope, in the New Zealand Junior Drivers Premiership. In only her third season of driving she is honing in on her fiftieth winning […]
Last year’s exciting juvenile Merlin (Art Major) will be looking to resume his winning ways when he kicks off his three-year-old harness racing season at Cambridge Raceway on Thursday. The Art Major colt established a perfect record in his first eight starts, with his victories including the Group 2 Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes (1700m) […]
Star harness racing colt Merlin (Art Major) is getting close to returning to the races and a trip to Australia is being considered. In his first season of racing he won eight of his nine starts before he was gallant in defeat when running fourth in the Group One Sires Stakes Final on Cup Day. […]
By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Mathew Hickey is a relieved man after northern reinsman Scott Phelan answered his eleventh-hour call to drive Get On The Sauce at Manawatu Raceway on Thursday. The four-year-old trotter missed the opening day of the meeting due to a lack of senior drivers and Hickey said he was looking […]
