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In form trainer Brian Norman takes seven runners to Winter Rewards Finals Day at Winton on Sunday. Race One: Delightingold (Bettor’s Delight) – Driver Craig Ferguson – FR5 Note: Seventeen start maiden who is new to the stable. Previously trained by Donna Williamson. Race Two: Turn N Burn (Art Major) – Driver Craig Ferguson – […]
Southern driver Mark Hurrell has nine drives across the ten races at Invercargill tomorrow. Here are his thoughts on each runner. Race One: Pacific Arc (Washington VC) – trainer Brian Norman (F2) “He hasn’t had a good draw for a long time. The one horse (Rakamick) looks like he’s got enough gate speed to hold […]
Hoping to pick up a bit of the prize money at the Forbury Park dual code meeting on the grass, Alex and son Grant Milne head up the road from Edendale to Wingatui tomorrow morning. Jaccka Omni (Always B Miki) has had two race day appearances and ran third on the grass at Cromwell at […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray heads to Ascot Park with a good team tomorrow, but he’s not been too lucky with the draws. In Race One, Gray has maiden trotter Don’t Stop Believing (Creatine) down to start. He has two runners in Race Two – Vice Chairwoman (Washington VC) and Anita Mary (Fear The Dragon). […]
The win by the Craig Ferguson trained Kusama (Art Major) at the Wyndham HRC meeting at Winton yesterday produced the next generation of pacers from a breed the late Ronnie Macdonald established in the early 1980s. “I always thought she’d win one pretty quickly but I thought Brent’s one (Anita Mary) would be a bit […]
Gore trainer Brian Norman says Markthewarrior (Majestic Son) is his best winning chance at tomorrow’s Winton HRC meeting at Central Southland Raceway. He starts off the unruly mark in Race Five. He was unlucky two starts back and broke at his last start two weeks ago but there were excuses. In Race One Norman has […]
As well as having a strong presence at the Tuapeka HRC meeting at Invercargill on Sunday, Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray will have two runners at Ashburton on Monday. In Race One on Sunday, Gray lines up the well-bred debutant Jaccka Ace (Father Patrick). He qualified by twenty three lengths at Winton two weeks ago […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray is in for a couple of big days. Tomorrow he takes six runners to the Wyndham meeting. And on Friday night his star two year old filly Miki’s Deal (Always B Miki) will race in the Caduceus Club Two Year Old Fillies Series prelude at Addington. “Her work’s been really […]
Southland horseman Nathan Williamson is in for a busy few days with nine drives at Winton tomorrow and a big assignment at The Creek at Albion Park in Brisbane on Saturday. At the Winton meeting he links up with the Stephen Balloch trained Sebastian Stark (Sebastian K) in Race One. “He’s got good ability this […]
Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray has eleven starters on his local track at Winton tomorrow. In Race One Equine Asset (Raging Bull) runs for the stable. She got back too far at her last start but gets a good front row draw (3) for the 1609 metre trip. “She’s a little bit weak and is […]
Pacing filly Arrive (Captaintreacherous) trained by Chantal Turpin is one of the rising stars in the Queensland three year old ranks and she has strong roots in Southland. She’s out of Washington VC mare Washington Lass which had ten starts for her Wyndham breeder Ian Hunter before she was sold to Australia. Washington Lass won […]
When West Australian driver Gary Hall Jnr comes to Winton in November to drive in the World Drivers Championships he’ll be coming to the region that bred two outstanding horses, both of which gave him some of his biggest wins in harness racing. Superstars Im Themightyquinn (Washington VC) and Chicago Bull (Bettor’s Delight) were born […]
The only thing surprising about Beyond Doubt’s (Washington VC) win today at Ascot Park was his price ($16.40 to win). “It was false money. He’s been only two or three lengths away from the winners in his races and running the times. I was surprised, not that I backed him (laughter),” trainer Robin Swain said […]
While Ryal Bush trainer Brett Gray has been always in Japan, junior driver Daniel Anderson has been running the stable roster. Anderson loads up five runners for Gray tomorrow to take to the Wairio harness racing meeting at Winton. Daisymerollin (What The Hill) debuts in Race Three with Anderson doing the driving. In Race Four […]
Champion harness racing trainer Mark Purdon saddled up his first galloping winner at Ellerslie today. Buster Shaw in the hands of Jasmine Fawcett took out the first race for Purdon, whose horses prior to today’s win had recorded a second and two thirds at the races. Edendale breeders Alex and Karen Milne have had a […]
It’s been eighteen years since Brydone trainer Keith Norman trained a harness racing winner, but in saying that it’s not been his main focus over the thirty four seasons he’s held a licence. Over that period Norman ran Bryleigh Lodge, standing stallions Son Of Afella, The Gladiator and Washington VC. The win yesterday at the […]
Nutcracker’s (Bettor’s Delight) win in the Kia Ora Campers Pacing Cup at the Wingatui harness meeting yesterday added to the great season Wyndham horseman Craig Ferguson is having in the cart. In yesterday’s $20,000 pacing feature Nutcracker began well and trailed early pacemaker She’s Tough, before taking up the pacemaker’s role herself. “She’d been working […]
Southland based harness racing stallion Washington VC died on Friday morning at Bryleigh Stud near Edendale, his home for twenty four years. “He was neighing. Something wasn’t quite right. I led him out to his paddock, he lay down and never got up. It was almost certainly a heart attack. It was my dream way […]
Stallion Washington VC has been a great servant to many Southern harness racing breeders as well as a few further afield. Gore trainer Brian Norman has certainly been a fan. Of his 201 career winners, 91 have been in the pacing gait and 32 of those have been provided by the stock of Washington VC. […]
Bruce Negus is looking to get a head start on next year’s Country Cup Championship. Negus will line up Corravally Star (Washington VC) in Sunday’s Kurow Cup, a harness racing qualifying event for the 2023 Country Cup Championship at Addington. Negus’s four-year-old missed out on a start in this year’s $100,000 feature by just one […]
