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We wouldn’t see a better drive than the one Bob Butt produced tonight at Alexandra Park when he reined The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) to win the G1 $100,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile. Doo You Want Me and driver Tony Herlihy blasted the gate early with Sooner The Better up to challenge. Butt and The Lazarus […]
One of New Zealand’s great harness racing sprints has been thrown into confusion by the barrier draw for Friday’s $100,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile. The Group 1 is Alexandra Park’s biggest annual sprint race and has been won by some of New Zealand’s pacing greats: Elsu, Just An Excuse, Christen Me, Terror To Love, Auckland […]
“Hayds and I have been best mates since we were about 15. It’s a great thrill to do it with him and Amanda. They’re such a great team. I’m really stoked,” Matty White said after winning the $100,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park last night with We Walk By Faith (Bettor’s Delight) trained […]
Merlin’s horror run of draws continued in the $100,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park on Friday night. The Race by betcha third placegetter is the biggest harness racing name backing up from the $1million slot race in this Friday’s mile but has copped the outside of the front line. That comes after he […]
On North American harness racing tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe the […]
In the twilight of his harness racing career at start number 105, many presumed the Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan-trained Mach Shard (Mach Three) was simply making up the numbers in tonight’s Group One $110,000 Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park against a much younger crop of up and coming Open Class pacing talent. The two […]
An almost perfect set of harness racing barrier draws has turned Friday’s $110,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile into one of the races of the season. The $110,000 sprint will highlight one of Alexandra Park’s biggest nights of the year sitting alongside feature races for almost all grades from country cups handicappers to juvenile pacers and […]
Harness racing trainer Mark Purdon concedes that Akuta (Bettor’s Delight) and Self Assured (Bettor’s Delight) whom he trains with son Nathan are probably running for place money in tomorrow nights $90,000 Group One Dawson Harford Taylor Mile in Auckland. This is due to the fact that Copy That, (American Ideal) the current dominant force in […]
