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World champion mare Shartin N has produced her latest foal, a filly by champion Bulldog Hanover and the genes say speed to burn. Shartin N (Tintin In America) has a CV packed full of wonderful highlights and when she paced 1-46.4 on Hambletonian Day in the States, she broke a world record, which still stands. […]
When your mother is Shartin N, (Tintin in America) you have a bit to live up to, but the Christi Noble trained Princess Stella (Captaintreacherous) is heading in the right direction. Princess Stella was bought by Richard Poillucci for $140,000 at the Lexington Select Sale and after stints with two other trainers, is now in […]
The win by Biggles (Tintin In America) at the Forbury Park harness meeting at Oamaru gave his Geraldine trainer John Murdoch another lift. Murdoch has been through some tough times recently after being diagnosed with lung cancer. “The big buzz is that the doctors fixed me. They did a wonderful job and I’m away again. […]
Monarch Farm matriarch Margaret Donohue has seen a lot of smart youngsters after a lifetime involvement with harness racing and she is “very happy” with her draft of yearlings in the APG Gold Coast Yearling Sale on January 28. Monarch Farm has produced several good two-year-old winners in recent seasons, including Paleface Adios Classic Winner […]
Promising youngster Zu Hoffen became the eleventh juvenile harness racing winner sired by former NZ champion Tintin In America when he led throughout at Penrith recently. He rated 1:58 for 1720 metres. ZU HOFFEN REPLAY https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PEC22122210.mp4 The gelding completed a double on the night for Tintin In America, who also sired the three-year-old winner Dreamy […]
Brilliant Tintin In America three-year-old Teddy Disco wrote himself into the harness racing history books when he scored a runaway success in the Group 2 $52,000 Redcliffe Yearling Sales Series 3YO Final last Friday night (June 17). Despite sitting parked throughout, Teddy Disco scored by 24 metres at a 1:56.8 rate for 2040 metres. Teddy […]
The Tintin In America gelding Chicago Gangster is proving a smart two-year-old – he has won two of his four starts to date – and could develop into one of the best his age this harness racing season. Chicago Gangster gave another sample of his class when he out-sprinted his rivals in the Group 3 […]
Harness racing’s North America Cup winner Fear The Dragon left five individual three-year-old winners in America this week. They included Odds On Capitalism, who won the $30,000 Nobleland Sam Final in 1:51.4, and Fear The Queen, winner of a heat of the Buckeye Stallion Series in 1:52.6 at Scioto Downs, Ohio. Other recent winners sired […]
The progeny of former superstar pacer Tintin In America are firing on all fours . . . on both sides of the Tasman. The Yirribee Pacing Stud flagship sired a winning double at the Menangle midweek meeting with the two-year-old Chicago Gangster (1:56.8) and the promising three-year-old Mahomes (1:53.1). Other Tintin winners were Middlepage (1:56.5), […]
Promising three-year-old harness racing filly Tigerlicious, one of the first small crop of the Inter Dominion hero and Horse of the Year Tiger Tara, who stands at Yirribee Pacing Stud, kept her unbeaten record in tact at Penrith. The filly led from end-to-end in a 1:59.7 rate over 1720 metres. She finished runner-up at her […]
The Tintin In America gelding Tim’s A Trooper, a Group 1 winner as a two-year-old last season, posted his second win at Group level in the $52,000 APG Gold Bullion Final at Albion Park. Despite sitting parked throughout, the gelding proved a class above his rivals, scoring by half a length. The mile rate was […]
A spate of winners in America this week from the first crop of North America Cup winner Fear The Dragon, whose frozen semen is available in Australia from harness racing’s Yirribee Pacing Stud, has sent his progeny earnings beyond the $1 million mark. His winners included Odds On Capitalism (1:51.6), Pearl Snaps (1:52.2), Type A […]
Yirribee Pacing Stud resident sire Tintin In America had a red-letter weekend when he left harness racing feature race winners in two States. Rippin Rupert, a two-year-old gelding, powered home from midfield to capture the Group 2 $50,000 NSW Sapling Stakes in 1:53.2 at Menangle at only his second start. The following night Nerano NZ […]
The highlight of the Gloucester Park midweek harness racing meeting this week was turned on by the Tintin In America gelding Middlepage, who broke soon after the start and gave the leaders 50 metres start. With two laps to run he was still 30 metres from the leaders, and his chance could have been written […]
Talented Tintin In America mare Common Courtesy won two races in the space of five days recently. The four-year-old mare took out the Cranbourne 10000 Final and then won the Vicbred Platinum Pace in a career-best 1:57.6 at Ballarat. On both occasions she came from absolute last. Ideal In Dreams, a Group 2 winning two-year-old […]
November 6, 2021 was certainly a red letter night for the leading NSW Riverina-based stud, Yirribee Pacing Stud. The resident stallions Tintin In America, Warrawee Needy and Million Dollar Cam sired five feature race winners on the night including three Group successes. Yirribee Pacing Stud also bred the winners of both Group 2 $50,000 NSW […]
Talented Warrawee Needy colt Uncle Shank, a three-year-old and one of his sire’s first crop, outfinished older, more experienced rivals in the Group 3 $30,000 The JC Mullen on the final night of Brisbane’s winter carnival. The colt clocked a career-best 1:52.3 for the 1660 metres with the last 800 in 55.4 seconds. Uncle Shank […]
Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every Friday brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. Won Rising Sun Amazing Dream gave a further taste of her class when she out-sprinted a top field in the inaugural $250,000 Rising Sun, a new Group 1 for three and four-year-olds […]
