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Ohoka harness racing trainer Tom Bagrie was relatively confident of a good showing from his three year old filly Song Of Seas, (Downbytheseaside) in the first heat of the Nevele R Fillies Series at Addington on Friday night. Bagrie shares in the ownership of Song Of Seas with Claire Sarsfield, Brian Cowley and his partner […]
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 […]
Tom Bagrie is confident Dash Dosh can add to her already rewarding Queensland raid with another bold showing at Albion Park on Friday night. Bagrie and driver John Dunn were thrilled with the four-year-old mare’s slightly luckless second to dominant winner Jilliby Dreamlover in last Saturday night’s $150,000 Group 1 Great Square. They clash again […]
Thirty one year old Group One winning Canterbury harness racing trainer Tom Bamford has moved from Rakero Racing to training on his own account. He’s now based at Tom Bagrie’s property at Ohoka with a small team of young horses. “It’s good. One chapter closes and the next one opens. You’ve got to take it […]
Ohoka trainer Tom Bagrie is thrilled with the performance of his trotter Blue Collar at yesterday’s Methven meeting. Blue Collar made it two wins from as many starts when winning the Steve Parkinson – Orthopaedic Surgeon Trot for driver John Dunn. “He showed a bit of guts, which was good to see,” said Bagrie. […]
NEW CHUMS AND OLD STAGERS BOOST BAGRIE TEAM Apart from some spasmodic contradictions by the weather, racing and life as we know it has returned to normal. Accordingly, the Weekly Warble, which keeps an ear and an eye on what’s happening at Tom Bagrie’s Ohoka barn, resumes after a brief hiatus to peer through a […]
Many were not expecting hot favourite Tracy The Jet to be beaten, but the Tom Bagrie trained Dash Dosh (Trixton) accomplished it in the $140,000 Group One Woodlands Stud New Zealand Trotting Oaks. At the start the two favourites Tracy The Jet and Ya Rite Darl battled for the top. But Ya Rite Darl folded […]
THOMAS’S MAJOR ACT Ask any of the top harness racing reinsmen if they recall their first winning race drive and they’ll recite the occasion chapter and verse. On Sunday, as Thomas Borcoskie brought back his first winner, She’s A Major Act (Art Major), after steering her to victory at the Waimate Trotting Club’s annual meeting at […]
Nineteen year old Seth Hill is one of the rising stars in this country’s junior driver ranks and with thirty wins on board and an association with very good pacer Arthur Selby, (Bettor’s Delight) there’s bound to be a few more before the season ends. Seth is the son of Swannanoa horseman Brendon Hill who […]
It’s not often you get a Robert and Jenna Dunn trained horse at really long odds, but that’s what harness racing punters got today in the Robin and Geraldine Wilson Rangiora Classic. Double Time (A Rocknroll Dance) was 12/12 in the betting with only two other horses in the fourteen horse field at longer odds. […]
Four Canterbury trained trotters head south on Sunday for the inaugural running of the $40,000 Group Three The Dark Horse at the Invercargill Harness Racing Club meeting at Ascot Park. Galleons Ambassador (Love You) trained by Ashburton horseman John Morrison brings a good formline into Sunday’s feature. She scored a well-deserved win three starts ago. […]
WALKINONSUNSHINE “It’s been a while since I have had a derby runner. It’s good to have her in the race, and we are just keen to turn the page on the run in the Oaks,” said Bagrie referencing his third placing in the 2017 NZ Trotting Derby with BD Khaosan (Angus Hall). “She has come […]
“She loves being on the front end and she has the gait speed to put herself in the right spot and has a really good motor to keep trucking on at the finish,” harness racing trainer Tom Bagrie said after Walkinonsunshine (Creatine) won the Southern Trotting Oaks at Ascot Park today (Oct. 6). Driver Blair […]
After winning at Addington last night with Wag Star (Sweet Lou) the amazing season for Wyndham harness racing trainer Craig Ferguson rolled on at the Northern Southland TC meeting at Ascot Park today (Oct. 6). Street Art (Art Major) in his first standing start, demolished a small but tidy field of pacers in the main […]
A moment of weakness could lead to a Group 3 harness racing win for Tony Herlihy at Addington on Thursday night. The all-time champion driver flies south today to partner Walkinonsunshine (Creatine) in the $45,000 Macca’s Lodge Sires’ Stakes Classique for the three-year-old trotting fillies, not the sort of return trip you would usually expect […]
Ohoka harness racing trainer, Tom Bagrie, gained the second Group Race success of his young career when his quality trotting filly, Walkinonshunshine (Creatine) scored in the G3 $27,000 Northern Trotting Oaks at Alexandra Park this evening (Apr. 4) Harnesslink followers will note that we reported yesterday she would relish getting back to the mobile after […]
On the back of getting what he liked at the National Yearling Sales, Tom Bagrie will be hoping for the same at Rangiora on Sunday. The harness racing trainer did his homework and bagged a Bettor’s Delight colt with a $95,000 price tag at Christchurch last month. This week Bagrie will line up two horses […]
The win of Dannemora (Betting Line) on day one (Dec. 26) of the Westport meeting at Patterson Park yesterday was a proper harness racing family affair. The three-year-old filly was prepared by Ohoka horseman, Tom Bagrie, driven by his cousin, John Dunn, and the extended family were on hand to soak in the spoils including […]
Friday afternoon (Oct. 28) harness racing action heads back to the picturesque Mt Harding Raceway with the Methven Trotting Club set to play host for its third grass track meeting of the Spring. The club was once again greeted with stellar nominations and despite initially programming just the eight races across the afternoon, the support […]
By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk The easing to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 earlier this week meant the return of two favourite things for Ohoka horseman Tom Bagrie – racing and takeaways. “We are on a farm with chickens and cattle to feed, so not much changed there and we tried to do what we […]
