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For a young man, Northern Southland harness racing breeder Paul Hailes has a bit of skin in the game. “I was never pushed into it, but I always had a bit of a fascination with the breeding side of it when I was younger. I lost interest when I went away to boarding school but […]
There’s no better way to advertise your breeding brand than having winners on the racetrack and the Southern Bred Southern Reared brand had them in spades last night. The southern group who breed and sell as a collective, last night recorded three winners at Alexandra Park and four at Addington. And there’s the promise of […]
MILTON, May 26, 2026 – Woodbine Mohawk Park will offer the $140,500 Somebeachsomewhere Stakes (Grade 3) this Saturday as a final tune up opportunity ahead of the Pepsi North America Cup (Grade 1) harness racing eliminations on June 6. A full field of 10 three-year-old pacers will clash in the Grade 3 event named for […]
Trent and Kristie Mason are heading to the NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales at Karaka next week with two quality colts. “They’re still very much developing so it’s just going to be about understanding their strengths at the stage they’re at. It might be slightly harder to create an image in your head when they’re in […]
Hillary (Somebeachsomewhere) has been a late comer to the harness racing ranks but she rewarded her Wyndham trainer Brendon McLellan when she won at Winton today. “She had tendon issues so we ended up chucking her in the paddock for a season or a couple. She looked alright so we got her back in,” McLellan […]
Xlendi (Somebeachsomewhere) was too big and too powerful for the others in the field when he won the Nelson Pine Industries Nelson Cup for Woodend Beach harness racing trainer Bob Butt at the Nelson Harness Club meeting yesterday. The seven year old stepped well from the front row and was taken to the top before […]
There is no denying the influence of Mach Three and Somebeachsomewhere on the studbook. The incredible and prolific influence in the harness racing breeding world of the great stallion Mach Three, his sons, especially Somebeachsomewhere, his grandsons, especially Captaintreacherous, and their progeny earnings combined, are mind-blowing and hard to imagine. They’re 100% real! Who would’ve […]
MILTON, ON – Aug. 2, 2024 – Somebeachsomewhere is the greatest harness racing horse in Ontario Sires Stakes history, according to an informal poll conducted as part of the program’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. Among the Lampman Cup-winning drivers, Johnston Cup-winning trainers, Hall of Fame breeders, renowned handicappers and iconic builders who were asked to provide […]
New Zealand harness racing’s most improved pacer last year in the Open Class ranks was undoubtedly the Kevin Chapman-trained Beach Ball (Somebeachsomewhere). The now five-year-old entire fulfilled the enormous potential he had always shown his trainer and the general public, showcased by his two Group One placings over Cup Week and his Group Three Summer […]
TORONTO, JUNE 12, 2023 – “He’s big, he’s strong, and he has got it going on” Ken Middleton’s famous call of Somebeachsomewhere winning the Pepsi North America Cup helped cement the 2008 edition as one of the all-time great moments in Canadian harness racing. It was the first time an undefeated horse won the Pepsi […]
Trainer Brent Mangos couldn’t have been happier with how South Coast Arden’s (Somebeachsomewhere) spring harness racing campaign has started until he saw the weather report for Canterbury this week. The Pukekohe trainer is still in the South Island after his stable star caught the eye storming home into fifth in the Canterbury Classic at Addington […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Top harness racing pacer Ruthless Hanover (Somebeachsomewhere) lived up to his name Saturday afternoon (Oct 01) at The Downs and Mohegan Sun Pocono, going wire-to-wire in 1:51.1 to capture the featured $25,000 fast-class pace. George Napolitano Jr. sent the gelding to the lead before the :27 quarter, then all but won the […]
Batavia, NY — The Riddler and Vanna White would have been proud of the betting public after they figured out Puzzling (Somebeachsomewhere) should be the harness racing favorite in the $15,000 Open I Handicap on Saturday night (Sept. 24) at Batavia Downs and then collected their money after he dominated the locals with his season’s […]
Tyler Dewe has been around horses since he was a teenager. And although he’s worked for a number of trainers, until three weeks ago he’d never had a harness racing trainer’s licence. Today at Winton with the first horse he’s taken to the races, he got his new career off to the perfect start. “It’s […]
Port Au Prince (NZ) (Somebeachsomewhere) just needed a late split to show his class in the $A50,000 Group Two Schweppes Carousel Final (2300m) at Menangle on Saturday night. The NZB Standardbred graduate was raring to go with little room in the home straight but once driver Robbie Morris worked him into the clear, he powered to […]
SUMMERSIDE, PE – His Boy Elroy (Jeremes Jet) delivered on his post time promise as he made easy work of his Monday evening (Sep. 12) featured harness racing foes at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway. Corey MacPherson pointed his heavily favoured charge to the lead in the $3,000 featured pace and jogged through fractions […]
The speed explosion in harness racing in 2022 has been unbelievable. I guess it all began on August 5, 2006, when Holborn Hanover toured the Meadowlands oval in 1:46.4—a time, heretofore, thought unimaginable years—or even months—before. It took two years and a month before that time was equaled at The Red Mile by Somebeachsomewhere on […]
Plainville, MA — Pulling first-up early into fast fractions paid big dividends for Always A Miki (Always B Miki) who won the $20,000 Winners-Over feature harness racing pace at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (Aug. 29). Coming in with a four-race win streak, Higherthananeagle A (Bruce Ranger) left like he meant it and took the […]
A plethora of talented young harness racing pacers have carried Brian O’Meara’s famous silks, and he may have unearthed another at Rangiora on Sunday. Mandalay Bay (Somebeachsomewhere) was making his debut in the Sefton Pace (2600m) and was handled patiently by driver Jim Curtin after making a quiet beginning. The three-year-old gelding tracked fellow debutant […]
Batavia, NY — Surfer Beach (Somebeachsomewhere) took a while to get the lead but when he did, he finished the harness racing job job this week, winning the $15,000 Winners-Over I Handicap at Batavia Downs on Saturday night (Aug. 27). Last week’s feature winner Stratosphere (Drew Monti) was first to the front and held that […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – A summary of the main events and consolations of the Max C. Hempt Memorial Pace for males and the Delmonica Hanover Trot for females during the signature three-year-old harness racing events on the $2.4M Sun Stakes Saturday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. MAX C. HEMPT MEMORIAL PACE $300,000 Hempt Pace: […]
CHESTER PA – The high-level claiming pacers took a rare turn in the harness racing spotlight on Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, with Rickybobbynthehaus (American Ideal) and Ship Wreck Beach K (Somebeachsomewhere) each victorious in their $12,000 divisions. Rickybobbynthehaus, a winner in 1:50.2 here on July 17, has seen a lot of racetrack (limestone, not […]
LEXINGTON, KY — On Monday afternoon (Aug. 15) Red Mile will host two $80,000 second round harness racing legs of the Kentucky Championship series, three $30,000 second round legs of the Kentucky Commonwealth series and four $15,000 second round legs of the Kentucky Golden Rod series for freshman and sophomore trotters and pacers on a […]
Batavia, NY — Two Open paces totalling $27,500 in purses highlighted the harness racing card at Batavia Downs on Saturday night (Aug. 13) and both races provided exciting finishes. In the $14,000 Open II Handicap, My Money Honey (Sneaky B Skipalong, Kyle Cummings) got away third behind Art Scene (Jim Morrill Jr.) and both sat […]
