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Shannon O’Sullivan can’t get enough of this country right now. The talented junior driver from Bendigo in Victoria claimed her first ever New Zealand harness racing win with Bondi Lustre at Ashburton on Monday (Apr. 24), and has now decided to extend her “working holiday” on this side of the Tasman. “I was going to […]
Not long after landing a knockout blow to harness racing punters with a long-odds metropolitan win at Melton on April 1, young driver Shannon O’Sullivan was on a plane bound for New Zealand ready to hone her craft some more. The 21-year-old, who lifted Modern Bliss to that victory less than 24 hours after his […]
Shannon O’Sullivan and Abby Sanderson will share a special milestone at Menangle on Saturday night, with the two young harness racing reinswomen to hit the track for their maiden Group 1 drives. And both will be joined by horses dear to their hearts. O’Sullivan will partner Kate Hargreaves-trained Dont Care (Used To Me) in the […]
Tuning in to a radio advertisement by chance 15 years ago began Victorian harness racing couple Julie and Darren Brimacombe’s journey into the sport – and it’s a passion that’s only becoming stronger. “We were driving along one day and heard an ad for the harness racing school at Bendigo and it just clicked for […]
Shannon O’Sullivan made sure she reached a major career milestone in style at Cobram’s harness racing track on Thursday. The 22-year-old reinswoman registered her 100th victory in the sulky thanks to David Aiken’s gelding Mighty Flying Art, who gapped his rivals to win the Peter Ennals Cobram Caravans Pace by more than 20m. After getting […]
Harness racing partnerships didn’t come any bigger in the high-flying 1980s than that of Alan Hunter and Jim O’Sullivan. Big-spending owner Hunter and his trainer O’Sullivan won an Inter Dominion, a New Zealand Cup and countless other Group One features in Australasia headed by stars like My Lightning Blue, Quite Famous and Its Motor Power. […]
