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Twenty-five years ago, plans for a single harness racing meeting in country Victoria based purely on the splendor and speed of the square gaiter were perhaps most kindly described as an exercise of wishful thinking. Square gaiting was a dying sport, the critics said, and the Maryborough Harness Racing Club would be lucky if the […]
Richard Brosnan was regarded as one of the kings of harness racing in New Zealand and he’s still got a deft horseman’s touch, now on Australian soil. Brosnan, 73, who is enjoying semi-retirement with his wife Julija, was again in the winners’ circle this week with chestnut trotting gelding Sun Body (Sundon USA-Body And Soul […]
Trotting broodmares representing the best bloodlines in North America, Europe and Australasia will go up for sale as part of the reduction of stock of one of Australia’s leading standardbred nurseries, Aldebaran Park, Nagambie (Vic.). The offering includes the dams of the Breeders Crown champion Kyvalley Kyrie, Fear Not (winner of $195,000), the Vicbred Homegrown […]
