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Warragul Harness Racing Club is embracing innovation as it looks to deliver one of the most intriguing meetings on Victoria’s harness racing Cups calendar on the King’s Birthday long weekend. The club has unveiled a unique same-day heats-and-final format for its flagship Pacing Cup next Monday (June 8). Warragul has faced its share of challenges […]
Former New Zealand horseman Kyle Marshall added his name to the honour roll of winners of The Downtowner Warragul Pacing Cup after Can Be A Ruebe won the $17,500 feature at Logan Park on Monday afternoon. It was the second leg of a consecutive race double for the talented horseman, who also trained and drove […]
Hall of Famer and Living Legend reinswoman Kerryn Manning will add star power to today’s (June 9) Warragul Pacing Cup meeting – and could tick off a long-standing omission from her extraordinary harness racing resume in the process. Manning hasn’t driven at Warragul for more than two decades and has never saluted there, making the […]
If ever there is a club that feels vulnerable as to its future Warragul has to figure prominently. As has been indicated by all and sundry in harness racing around Australia there is pressure on a number of clubs to either rationalise or face the prospect of losing their meetings with some going into permanent […]
There will be a $10,000 lucky racegoer giveaway at the Warragul Pacing Cup harness racing meeting on the June holiday Monday. A generous donor has supplied the cash pool, and Warragul Harness Racing Club officials will formulate the exact structure of the giveaway in the next couple of weeks. It is likely however to be […]
Rising star pacer Keayang Tokyo (Captaintreacherous) looks set for only more harness racing success after a dominant win in the Downtowner Warragul Pacing Cup on Sunday afternoon. Perfectly driven in the feature race by reinsman Jason Lee for his mother, trainer Margaret Lee, the south-west districts trained four-year-old stretched his winning record to six from […]
The feature Warragul Pacing Cup was called off mid-race on Sunday, in a first for one of Victoria’s longest running country feature harness racing events. Six-year-old Cranbourne pacer Im Eugene fell when travelling in the front half of the field at the 1200-metre mark. Driver James Herbertson was uninjured and with officials helped Im Eugene […]
Visitors took most of the spoils at the Warragul trots harness racing meeting on Monday. Husband-and-wife trainer-driver duo Maree and John Caldow collected two of the seven race wins with Our Miki Diva (Always B Miki) in the Alby and Nellie Quinlan Memorial Pace and Daimyo (Majestic Son) in the Ken Humphrey Memorial trotters’ event. […]
There was a time when the sleek and powerful American Oldsmobile was the gold standard in mobile starting barrier vehicles at harness racing tracks across Australia. But the Warragul Harness Racing Club has one of the few classic V8s left in regular service and, with the help of a loyal sponsor, is planning to keep […]
You’ll meet some passionate harness racing families in your life – but not all of them would pack up with their family and move two States away to get their start in the sport. But that’s what twins Nathan and Will Rothwell and their parents did two years ago – and recently the brothers recorded […]
There are plenty of “emotional victories” in harness racing – but for Michelle Phillips and her rising star “best mate” Sebs Choice’s, their cup win at Warragul today was a pretty big moment. It was the first pacing cup success in Phillips’ career – emotional in itself, but by her own admission “anything to do […]
Champion reinsman Greg Sugars was kept busy at Warragul harness racing meetings last season-and his efforts were rewarded with the leading driver trophy. Sugars, of Myrniong, drove 34 horses for an impressive strike rate of five wins, nine runners-up and five third placings and freely admits it’s a track he enjoys. “It’s not the closest […]
Warragul harness racing track in Victoria’s Gippsland region might be one of the oldest in the State – but it’s still breaking new ground in the record books. The club offered a $1000 bonus for every horse who could break a track record at their meeting on Monday, and some of the State’s prominent stables […]
