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Young trotter Master McGoogan (What The Hill) demonstrated his speed off the gate for Matty Williamson tonight. From the outside of the front row in tonight’s $50,000 Group Three Greg and Leigh Ayers ‘The Sundon’ Two Year Old Classic at Addington, Williamson pushed the go button early and while second favourite Duke Of Bourbon galloped […]
Despite uncertain times, Paul Howlett, Canterbury blacksmith, breeder and owner, remains positive about harness racing’s future. “I leave it to the people that get paid well. I just worry about putting shoes on horses and getting young people into the game. I just love going to the races with my mates and having a few […]
Burnham harness racing driver Mark Jones will have a large team at the Wyndham HRC meeting tomorrow at Cromwell with nine runners across the thirteen race card. In Race Two Mighty Flying Miki (Always B Miki) represents the stable. The giant young pacer had had five starts for five fourths and appears to lack speed, […]
Show Day dishes up another day of high end harness racing with some horses backing up but others with fresh legs likely to add spice to the thirteen race programme. Both Woodend Beach trainer Bob Butt and Southern horseman Nathan Williamson bring their best horses to the meeting with Bob gearing up The Lazarus Effect […]
Most drivers would say drawing barrier four on the front line in a Group One race is not a bad marble. But John Dunn who drives Got The Chocolates (Art Major) for his father Robert and his wife Jenna is not so sure. “For him it’s just a draw. He shows no gate speed, is […]
Boom trotting sire Tactical Landing left important winners in three different countries on Friday (August 29). The four-year-old Summermusicnight started the ball rolling by winning the rich German Trotters Derby at Berlin’s Mariendorf track. A trio of Tactical Landing’s progeny in the glamour three-year-old filly Yo Tillie (1:52) and the two-year-olds Practical Man (1:55.8) and […]
Despite sitting parked for the entire trip, first starter Rangitata (Tactical Landing) showed plenty of ability in winning her heat of the Diamond Creek/SBSR Southern Surge Series at Winton today. The three year old filly is trained by Phil Williamson and was driven by his son Brad. “She’s inexperienced and a bit nervous so that’s […]
The Southern Surge meeting at Winton on Sunday has attracted capacity fields and has been well supported by Oamaru horseman Phil Williamson who’ll bring six trotters south for the eleven race card. In Race One, Rangitata (Tactical Landing) and What’s The Whisper (What The Hill) represent the barn. Rangitata is out of a sister to […]
Four Stallions – Four Breeders Crown titles – 100 wins between them – $9,500,000 in combined stake earnings, and a combined 17 Group One harness racing wins! Bettor’s Wish – $8,500+gst (polf) A Sire on the way up! The debut crop of Bettor’s Wish 2yo’s in Australasia are ticking all the right boxes at just […]
Stallions Australasia has announced a cut in the service fee for champion trotting sire Tactical Landing for the 2025/26 stud season. His fee is $9,900 including GST. A Breeders Crown champion and the winner of nine of his 16 starts and $811,800, Tactical Landing has been among the top bracket of North American trotting sires since […]
The ease with which the Mark Jones trained Wanna Play A Game (Tactical Landing) won at the Ashburton harness racing meeting yesterday would suggest the winning won’t finish there. Driver Sam Ottley stepped Wanna Play A Game and led from start to finish before clearing out to win by four and a quarter lengths with […]
This Tuesday, the members of the SETF French Trotter Herdbook Commission met to study the proposed regulatory changes and the conditions of registration in the said book of offspring born in 2026 from the crossing of French Trotteur mares with the American stallion Tactical Landing (Muscle Hill). At the end of the exchanges and debates, […]
When it comes to juvenile trotting in harness racing, more often than not at the elite end of the spectrum, the apple doesn’t tend to fall too far from the tree. A quick look at the field for Friday night’s G2 2YO Sires Stakes Trotting Championship at Addington Raceway is testament to that, with a […]
Diamond Creek is pleased to welcome 2023 Hambletonian harness racing champion Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing-Sarcy) to their Pennsylvania stud barn for 2024. Tactical Approach, trained by Nancy Takter, is from the first crop of the red hot sire, Tactical Landing and out of the Donato Hanover mare, Sarcy, making him a half-brother to Double Deceiver […]
On paper it was a match made in harness racing heaven. Tactical Landing, the blue blooded champion son of Muscle Hill over one of the quickest trotting mares produced in New Zealand over the last decade in Wilma’s Mate (Pegasus Spur). In theory it sounds simple, but as we know in breeding, often some of […]
Lexington, KY — On Sunday (Aug. 21) The Red Mile will host two $80,000 third round legs of the Kentucky Championship series, three $30,000 third round legs of the Kentucky Commonwealth series and six $15,000 third round legs of the Kentucky Golden Rod series for harness racing freshman and sophomore trotters and pacers of both […]
WASHINGTON, PA, Aug. 5, 2022 — Jameson & Lime (Father Patrick) needed two moves to get there, but she notched her fourth straight harness racing victory in Friday’s $10,000 opening leg of a Pop Up Series for 2-year-old filly trotters at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Jameson N Lime opened her career with a fourth-place […]
Longest-shot-on-the-board Tactical Planner (Tactical Landing) exploded in the last eighth of the mile to win the $80,500 Pure Ivory harness racing final for two-year-old pacing fillies on Thursday (Aug. 5) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Driver Tyler Jones backed the filly to eighth from the start and was content to sit through first-half fractions of :27.1 […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – A single $20,000 harness racing elimination was necessary for both the Peter Haughton Memorial for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings and the Jim Doherty Memorial for freshman trotting fillies at The Meadowlands Friday night (Jul. 30), with one result predictable and the other not so much. Both stakes events will have […]
