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The first slot for this year’s $1.5 million TAB Eureka to be held at Tabcorp Park Menangle on November 21 has been filled by Rampant Standardbreds who have selected boom three-year-old Loucasso (Sweet Lou) to represent them. Trained in Sydney by Seaton Grima and raced by a large syndicate of owners headed by Aaron Bain […]
A trip to one of the world’s biggest and most iconic trotting races is back on the radar for champion Victorian harness racing mare Keayang Zahara (Volstead). While co-trainer Marg Lee earlier this year ruled out ever chasing the famed Elitlopp in Sweden, her son and co-trainer Paddy Lee revealed it was back on the […]
Trainer Damian Wilson is glad he resisted the temptation of Queensland’s winter riches with his untapped young trotter Pastor Dunbar. In the days after the three-year-old brilliantly won the Group 1 NSW Derby at Menangle on May 9, Wilson explored chasing another Group 1 win in the $150,000 Great Square for three and four-year-old trotters […]
Life has been busy for prominent Victorian trainer Alex Ashwood. Based near Bendigo, Ashwood campaigned a number of his stable stars at the recent Brisbane Inter Dominion series. “Just hours after that amazing Grand Final night at Albion Park (last Saturday week) I was down in Launceston driving. I flew out first thing the next […]
Jackie Barker has spent her entire life immersed in harness racing, growing up in one of the sport’s most iconic families before forging an outstanding career of her own in the sulky. Fresh from driving her 700th career winner at Geelong on Friday night, Barker caught up with Tim O’Connor to reflect on her journey […]
A squaregaiter destined for harness racing immortality has claimed her first Victorian Horse of the Year award. Keayang Zahara, the trotter many think will become our greatest ever, was adjudged the standout performer of the 2025 season and acknowledged for her feats during a gala presentation event at Melton Entertainment Park on Sunday night. The […]
Victoria’s powerhouse trotting stable has one hand on its first Great Southern Star crown. Marg and Paddy Lee are fresh off the back of an outstanding 2025 season which reaped an incredible 104 winners from just 386 starters at a strike rate of 26.94 per cent, and the mother-and-son training partnership hold all the aces […]
The Bendigo Pacing Cup of 2020 will live long in the memory of Brisbane Lions premiership star Darcy Gardiner. Gardiner was having an early foray into harness racing ownership alongside his mate and fellow Lions player Lewis Taylor when their horse, Code Bailey, bolted in the Group 2 feature for the trainer-driver combination of Marg […]
Master harness racing trainer Chris Lang is confident he can wind back the clock at Saturday night’s Breeders Crown finals night at Melton. There was a time Lang, then the “King of Trotting”, made the Breeders Crown his own seven wins between 2002 and 2010 with superstars like Skyvalley, Let Me Thru and Kyvalley Road. […]
Nominations for Gunbower’s cup meeting close tomorrow, with owners and trainers urged to support the annual raceday in Victoria’s north. A total of 10 races have been programmed for the twilight harness racing card, highlighted by the $10,000 Travla Roger and Elaine Brereton Memorial Gunbower Pacing Cup and $10,000 Cohuna Car Sales / Bill Poxon […]
Golden Tribe is putting young trainer Tom Rundle on the harness racing map. The unwanted colt, who was passed in at the Nutrien Equine Melbourne yearling sales and eventually snapped up for the bargain price of $10,000, has emerged as one of the top-line three-year-old talents here in Victoria during recent months. His latest campaign […]
Young Aussie trotting star Kyvalley Ray won’t be returning home any time soon. Fresh from his win in today’s $NZ120,000 Group 1 2YO Trotters’ Sires’ Stake final at Addington, trainer Brent Lilley said the gelding would stay in NZ for at least the next six months. “It is mission accomplished as far as this race […]
A career with horses that started in harness racing has resulted in James Rayner living out a Melbourne Cup dream. Rayner is travelling foreman for the Ballarat-based Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable and strapper of Half Yours, who scored an historic victory in the race that stops a nation at Flemington on Tuesday. It completed […]
Jilliby Ballerini (Majestic Son) will represent the powerful Ecklin South harness racing barn of Marg, Paddy and Jason Lee at next month’s $NZ400,000 Renwick Farms Dominion Trot in New Zealand. The stable today confirmed plans for the brilliant four-year-old squaregaiter, who chased home star stablemate Keayang Zahara for second in Saturday night’s Group 1 Bill […]
Ryan Sanderson has experienced some incredible highs during his short time in harness racing, but remains desperate to feel what it’s like to achieve the ultimate success. And that’s driving a Group 1 winner. The 22-year-old reinsman moved from Queensland to Victoria with his trots-mad family in 2021, and has won big country features, a […]
The son of a harness racing legend will be Victoria’s third young reinsman to travel to France for a once-in-a-lifetime personal and professional development tour. Sean O’Sullivan has been awarded an all-expenses paid trip, which will see him drive in the Prix des Rencontres Internationales du Trotteur Français at Vincennes and work alongside world-renowned horseman […]
More than $500,000 in prizemoney will go up for grabs during a blockbuster night of racing at Melton Entertainment Park on Saturday. Four rich Nutrien Equine Classic finals for the two-year-old and three-year-old trotters are the features following heats at Bendigo last week, while the $50,000 VHRC Caduceus Classic will see the likes of Catch […]
Part-owner Gary Jarvis is thankful for the incredible ride he had with Rakero Rebel as she prepares for the next phase of her life in the breeding barn. Connections have sold the star pacing mare to New South Wales-based Success Stud after a wonderful racetrack career that included 16 wins and 23 placings from 59 […]
The Victorian harness racing industry is mourning the death of much-loved owner-trainer Marty Miles, who sadly passed away last week aged 77. Miles enjoyed a long and successful career in the sport, with Calluna providing his first winner as an owner in 1980 and Gemstone Pat his maiden success as a trainer in 1993. Horses […]
Keayang Bazlenka (What The Hill) is set to be given a break and aimed for the big two-year-old features at the back end of the season after completing a memorable start to his harness racing career this week. The Marg and Paddy-trained son of What The Hill won on debut against older horses at Terang […]
James Herbertson has just come home from a whirlwind overseas working holiday, but will pack his bags once again ahead of a week-long harness racing trip to Queensland for the Australasian Young Drivers Championships in mid-July. Herbertson, who drove three winners in the United States and one in Sweden before returning from more than a […]
Connections have decided to bypass the 2025 Queensland Inter Dominion harness racing carnival with one of Victoria’s most popular pacers, Bulletproof Boy (Art Official). Trainer-driver Scott Ewen was disappointed with the 10-year-old’s last-start effort at Melton Entertainment Park on Saturday night when he led comfortably and faded late to be beaten 4.8m into fifth. As […]
Young driver Connor Clarke will wave goodbye to Victoria in the coming weeks as he takes up an incredible opportunity in Queensland with prominent owner Josh Davine. Davine, who owns and operates N40 Racing, has snapped up the services of Clarke to work at his Biddaddaba stable under the guidance of private trainer Michael Brennan. […]
Just Believe joined some of the state’s greatest harness racing names as a back-to-back winner of the Victorian Horse of the Year crown on Monday night. The late great Greg Sugars was at the forefront of everyone’s minds as the horse he drove to so many famous victories was acknowledged as the standout performer of […]
