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Young driver Ryan Sanderson landed his first Group 1 harness racing success on Fox Dan (Art Major) when the colt finished brilliantly to win the $200,000 Group 1 Woodlands Stud Victoria Pacers Derby Final at Melton on Saturday evening. A top class pacer throughout his junior career Fox Dan was a prohibitive favourite having drawn […]
Prolific classics harness racing driver Mark Pitt finally broke through winning his first Victoria Derby on Best Deal (American Ideal) when he edged out Some American In the Group 1 $200,000 Woodlands Stud Victoria Pacers Derby at Melton. Despite having already won 27 Group 1 races Pitt had never won a Victoria Derby previously despite […]
The Keith Cotchin-prepared Our Luciano (Sweet Lou) will be needing luck on his side if he is to overcome a tricky harness racing barrier and the might of the Emma Stewart stable to claim Saturday night’s Group 1 Woodlands Stud Victoria Derby Final. The three-year-old finished fifth in the second heat to qualify for Saturday […]
Gun New South Wales reinsman Cameron Hart loves the business end of the harness racing season, criss crossing the country and New Zealand competing at the elite level – and tonight he has another Group One in his keeping (his 11th), courtesy of classy three-year-old Petracca (Captaintreacherous). Petracca captured the Woodlands Stud Group 1 Victoria […]
Victorian owner Jean Feiss hopes The Real Sherlock wins the Victoria Derby Saturday night for his dad, because she thinks his sire Vincent is owed such a success. Feiss is harness racing’s busiest trans-Tasman owner, flying to Christchurch this week to watch three of her horses, including $2m earner Self Assured, at Addington on Friday […]
One of the great prizes in Victorian harness racing is set for a heavyweight training showdown after Mark and Nathan Purdon’s hope sent a shot across the Tasman. New Zealand trained The Real Sherlock (Vincent) crashed the line to win the second Woodland Stud Victoria Derby heat at Melton Entertainment Park, joining Emma Stewart’s heat […]
The famed Purdons breathed new life into next week’s Victoria Derby after The Real Sherlock (Vincent) scored a shock harness racing win in the second heat of the Woodlands Stud Victoria Derby. With Petracca prevailing as expected in the first heat, most punters anticipated his stable mate The Lost Storm would do likewise in his […]
There were few surprises in the first heat of the Victoria Derby with the long odds on favorite Petracca (Captaintreacherous) ($1.08 fav) cruising to the line ahead of his harness racing rivals. PETRACCA IS ALL CLASS! Driven by Mark Pitt and trained by Emma Stewart, Petracca has shown he is the real deal after a […]
The Lost Storm (Captaintreacherous) has opened as an odds-on harness racing favourite to win the 2023 running of the Victoria Derby. The Emma Stewart-trained pacer is one of the confirmed starters for the TAB Eureka on September 2 and has been marked as a $1.50 chance to win the state’s three-year-old pacing classic on October […]
He has won three of Australian harness racing’s major Derby features but the season is far from over for Leap To Fame (Bettor’s Delight). The three-year-old colt added another feather to his cap winning the $200,000 Victoria Derby at Melton tonight (Oct. 8) having already won the New South Wales Derby and the Queensland Derby. […]
The buzz pacer of Australian harness racing Captain Ravishing (Captaintreacherous) will have to overcome the second row to win the $200,000 Victoria Derby at Melton on Saturday night (Oct. 8). Despite the draw he has opened as the favourite for the feature following his dominate heat win last Saturday, with Queenslander Leap To Fame close […]
A new harness racing star was born, or perhaps proven, in the heats of the Victoria Derby at Melton on Saturday night (Oct. 1). That was the ‘ravishing’ son of Captaintreacherous Captain Ravishing. The three-year-old colt has set tongues wagging across Australasia since his win at Ballarat on September 9 where he unleashed a record […]
Following some travel concerns star Bettor’s Delight colt Leap To Fame will make his way south for heats of harness racing’s Victoria Derby this Saturday night (Oct. 1). Trainer Grant Dixon confirmed that a flight from Queensland has been arranged for the $298,812 earner. “It’s all good now, there was an issue with getting a […]
The highly anticipated Pryde’s EasiFeed Victoria Cup meeting has arrived at its new location of Bendigo this Saturday night and the fields assembled have lived up to all expectations. Open class pacers will clash in the marquee event for $300,000 after the $200,000 Lather Up Victoria Derby for the three-year-old colts and geldings, the Pryde’s […]
It wasn’t so much the words Allan McDonough spoke after Blitzern’s upset Lather Up Victoria Derby heat success, but the emotion with which he delivered them that showed just how much the result meant. For all his successes as a trainer – and there’s been nearly 300 of them – few, if any, would have […]
Bendigo is the centrepiece of the Pryde’s EasiFeed Victoria Cup Carnival, hosting the TAB Smoken Up Sprint and the Aldebaran Park Chris Howe Trotters Free For All as well as the Derby and Oaks heats this weekend before a blockbuster card of four Group 1s the following. Add to that the return of King Of […]
A lightly raced youngster from the Shepparton barn of co-trainers Steve O’Donoghue and Bec Bartley could easily prove to be the x-factor in some of Victoria’s upcoming rich features. Three-year-old gelding Barnaby (Panspacificflight-Art For Artsplace (Artsplace) couldn’t have been more impressive in winning at his only two race outings at his home track and Charlton. […]
