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The adage that you can’t keep a good man down is certainly true as evidenced by the return of the one of the country’s leading trainer drivers David Moran. After a more than 12 month layoff, Moran has now reapplied and earned his A Grade licence. I drove six trials in Queensland while we were […]
Saturday harness racing features a match race between champion Leap To Fame and rising superstar Kingman in the Group 3 Shepparton Gold Cup (2690m). The Group 3 Shepparton Trotters Cup (2690m) features star trotter Arcee Phoenix competing against Im Bobby and Gotfeelingsyouknow. The free for all looks a competitive race and the 3YO event on […]
Riverina harness racing colt Business in Heaven (Rock N Roll Heaven) proved himself to be above average when he stormed down the outside to snatch the Graham Head Memorial 3YO Pace at Shepparton last night. The race put together a small but talented group of three year olds of which some will be serious Derby […]
RACEGOERS in the Goulburn Valley were treated to a close up look at a harness racing champion when Just Believe (Orlando Vici) enjoyed little more than a training work out in adding the Shepparton Trotters Cup to his considerable silverware cabinet. Backing up after returning to the track three days earlier at Melton, Just Believe […]
Harness racing fans are in for a Tuesday night treat with champion squaregaiter Just Believe (Orlando Vici) set to tackle the Shepparton Trotters Cup. The globetrotting megastar will look to win the race he claimed in 2022 when he steps out as a short-priced favourite in the $30,000 Group 3 feature. The reigning Victorian Horse […]
Unraced mare Gotta Hav Me (Sweet Lou) has shown a lot of “potential” according to trainer Shane Sanderson ahead of her debut harness racing run at Shepparton on Tuesday. The New Zealand-born pacer spent some time with NSW based-trainer Rickie Alchin before making the move to Victoria. “Rickie trialled her and had her ready to […]
Dame Fortune made a long awaited return to Gary Pekin and his pacer Cresco Threepeat (Blissfull Hall) at Shepparton recently. Astute harness racing punters who backed the eight year old from $14 to $8 were suitably rewarded when the son of Blissfull Hall staved off the challenges after enjoying the run of the race in […]
Australia’s most successful harness racing reinsman Chris Alford made the trip to Shepparton last night a successful one, edging ahead in his quest for his first Victorian state driver’s Premiership in three seasons. With an almost unthinkable milestone and Australian record 8000 career wins logged in February, the 55-year-old is still at the top of […]
Astute conditioner Mal Whiteford has had a harness racing journey full of wonderful memories—and he recently added another first to his collection. Whiteford, based at the small rural northern Victorian town of Barmah, near Echuca, got the money with beautifully-bred former trotter Parisian Bandit (Love You (FRA), now racing as a pacer. “I really had no […]
Three generations of the legendary harness racing Gath family will lock horns for the first time tonight (May 18) at Kilmore. Master horseman Brian Gath, based at Longlea near Bendigo, will do battle with his son Matthew and grandson Louis Emerson in the in the VHRC Benefitting Our Members Trot. The trio will handle runners […]
Sport, racing, and mateship have connected Victorian harness racing trainer Shane Sanderson and his good mate “Menko” for more than 20 years, but there’s no doubt their latest run of success together is bittersweet. “Menko”, former rugby league pro and coach Craig Menkins, has been one of Sanderson’s most loyal supporters on the up-and-down road […]
There was more than a touch of irony when Victorian harness racing trainer Jess Tubbs and her mum Kate came to name their well-bred Betting Line youngster – but Not As Promised, as he would be known, is having the last say! “Nothing about him was what we were looking for or expecting,” Tubbs said. “We bought […]
The last time passionate NSW trainer-driver Rikki Cernovskis made the long trek down to compete at a Shepparton harness racing meeting, it didn’t go all that well! “It was probably more than 10 years ago, and I led up, but my horse found nothing, and I got well and truly beaten. I reckon I finished […]
Nothing beats the thrill of a first win as a trainer or driver and the extended Nicole Lear team enjoyed every minute of her breakthrough training victory at the Shepparton harness racing meeting on Thursday (Nov 24). Echuca-based Nicole has spent her whole life around horses, courtesy of her dad Wayne, but she has always […]
Talented gelding Just Believe continued the golden run of the progeny of the French stallion Orlando Vici when he outsprinted a top field in harness racing’s Group 2 $30,000 Shepparton Trotters Cup. It was his second Group success and ninth lifetime win. He has earned more than $140,000. Ollivici, a New Zealand bred son of […]
Perseverance and patience are starting to win out for the Newberry harness racing stable at Shepparton with their striking black gelding Cabo Cruz (Mr Feelgood). The Newberrys admit the five-year-old has been a work in progress, but finally “got there” at his third race start to kick off what could be a promising career. “It’s […]
Charlton harness racing trainer Greg Norman has some lofty hopes for his imported New Zealander Aladdin (Sweet Lou) later in the year, but the immediate task on his radar presents at Shepparton’s metro meeting on Saturday night. Norman joined Trots Talk hosts Nims Azoor and Tim O’Connor to chat about the four-year-old, who will look […]
A lightly raced youngster from the Shepparton barn of co-trainers Steve O’Donoghue and Bec Bartley could easily prove to be the x-factor in some of Victoria’s upcoming rich features. Three-year-old gelding Barnaby (Panspacificflight-Art For Artsplace (Artsplace) couldn’t have been more impressive in winning at his only two race outings at his home track and Charlton. […]
