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Star Victorian pacer Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) will add to the vast travel itinerary through his stellar harness racing career when he tackles the first leg of the rich NSW Carnival of Cups on Friday night. When the $2.2 million-earner steps out in the $60,000 The Bidgee (2800m) it will be the 13th track he has […]
Star filly Eye Wish (Bettors Wish) maintained her unbeaten harness racing record but only just in a thrilling finish in the Heat of the Nutrine Equine New South Wales Breeders Challenge at the Riverina Paceway at Wagga on Friday. Eye Wish had created an enormous impression in her outstanding debut at the Wagga track two […]
Northern Victorian Goulburn Valley harness racing legend Geoff Hill has repaid a favor to fellow district trainer David Farrar – 56 years later! Back in 1968, a young Farrar was playing football for Nathalia and helping Hill out at his stables. “I went with Geoff as his strapper to a meeting held at the Royal […]
Teenage NSW harness racing reinsman George Lee has his mind set on a career in the sport he was born into – and it’s fair to say he’s off and racing! The 16-year-old finished school at the end of last year to work in his grandfather Steven Lee’s stable at the Canberra training centre. The […]
NSW harness racing driver Fiona Schmetzer has been slapped with a fine and suspension after her helmet fell off in the early stages of a recent meeting. The 48-year-old, based in the Riverina region, was handling six-year-old mare Weona Branach (Auckland Reactor) for trainer Chris Hughes at last Tuesday night’s (June 4) Wagga Wagga fixture […]
Bonnie mare Brooklyns Best (Rock N Roll Heaven) is a well-travelled racehorse, a mum, a foster mum – and has now given well-known NSW horseman David Druitt the biggest win of his harness racing career. Brooklyns Best is back where it all began at the Druitt stable, and scored a blowout win in Listed Classic, […]
Fellow drivers didn’t waste any time in congratulating passionate young reinsman Nic Horan when he recorded his first harness racing driving win at Wagga Wagga, in the New South Wales Riverina on Tuesday night (May 14). “Finally! I was pretty rapt, but it was probably 30 metres after the finish line when Blake Jones said […]
Jolly north-east Victorian harness racing character Wayne Anderson knew his luck was in when he headed off to a Wagga Wagga meeting recently. “I cut a bloke off at a roundabout on the way up and travelling along behind him was a cop. I’m almost certain he would have seen what I did,” Anderson said. […]
Talented Victorian reinswoman Abbey Turnbull has no hesitation in describing her first treble at Wagga Wagga’s meeting on Friday (August 5) as “absolutely, no doubt” her harness racing career highlight. And it didn’t hurt that the final leg of a superbly driven trio of winners was her favorite horse the talented juvenile Hiranya (Bettors Delight) […]
Harness racing friends are rallying around colorful Wagga Wagga horseman, 79 year old Ray White, who experienced the lows and highs in a challenging time last week. White’s younger brother Cyril was killed in a tragic truck accident last Monday, but four days later White was able to pay tribute in the best of ways, […]
