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Quality owned Southland mare Braeview Kelly (Bettor’s Delight) has produced her first foal, a colt by Captaintreacherous. Raced by Paul and Mandy Pierce, Braeview Kelly won eighteen races, was second thirteen times and ran third seven times, banking $459,030. For most of her career she was trained in Australia by Jack Trainor where she won […]
Netherlands harness racing driver Jaap van Rijn made every post a winner at Winton today, taking out three of the four heats of the World Drivers Championships. He got the party started when he led and won with the Matt Brinsdon trained Sheeza Vinny (Vincent) in the Vetsouth Equine WDC25 Heat 16. SHEEZA VINNY REPLAY […]
Wyndham horseman Craig Ferguson has some big assignments ahead of him, none bigger than the $500,000 The Velocity on Show Day, driving Marketplace. The Southland trainer has being travelling between Wyndham and Christchurch working Wag Star at Regan Todd’s property in addition to looking after his homebased team. On Sunday Ferguson will have a quieter […]
The World Driving Championship (WDC) is heading towards an exciting and close finish after five more harness racing heats were held at Addington on Friday night. After 15 of the 20 heats Canada’s former world champion James MacDonald has 130 points, just nine ahead of Australian Gary Hall junior (121). Mats Djuse (Sweden) is third […]
Blair “The Postman” Orange has gone where only three other New Zealand Harness Racing drivers have gone and has joined the elite 3,000 club. Having carved out a wonderful career over twenty nine years, Orange is only the fourth driver to have driven 3,000 winners in this country. The others are Tony Herlihy, Maurice McKendry […]
New Zealand’s harness racing representative Blair Orange is making his charge at the World Driving Championship. Last night at Cambridge Canada’s James MacDonald and Sweden’s Mats Djuse both had two wins apiece and Orange also starred by going from ninth place into fourth thanks to one win, two thirds and a fourth. His win was […]
The finishing touches are being made to Central Southland Raceway for the Winton Harness Racing Club’s leg of the World Drivers Championship on Sunday. The Punters Corner area under the main stand has had a major reno and carpet will be laid in the next few days while the public bar has also been tidied […]
Europe has flexed its muscle on day two of the World Driving Championship in Kaikoura. Firstly it was Jaap van Rijn from the Netherlands who took out Heat 4 and then it was Germany’s Michael Nimczyk who prevailed in the second and final harness racing heat of the day with the Matt Purvis-trained Flying Bird. […]
Jaap van Rijn (The Netherlands) has registered his first win at the World Driving Championship. And it was a powerhouse harness racing performance at the South Bay race course in Kaikoura in heat 4 of the WDC. Van Rijn made a mid race move with favourite It’s Tough and from there it was all over. […]
James MacDonald has officially arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand with his wife Paige and has settled in as he prepares to represent Canada at the 2025 World Driving Championship (WDC). Upon arrival, MacDonald attended a casual meet-and-greet with most of the WDC drivers. This event, featuring drinks and appetizers, provided an opportunity for international competitors […]
It was a little more than seven months ago that Brett Beckwith learned he was selected to represent the U.S. in the 2025 World Driving Championship in New Zealand. Now, it’s time to go. The WDC gets underway in New Zealand at noon on Sunday, Nov. 2, (which is 7 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Nov. […]
Winton is beginning to buzz with the World Drivers Championships less than a month away. On Sunday 9th November the Winton HRC will host three heats of the series, each one run over 1609 metres and featuring ten of the best drivers from all over the harness racing globe. Winton couple Trevor Proctor and Diane […]
New Zealand has a great record when it comes to the World Drivers Championship and Blair Orange will be looking to extend it when the series comes to NZ in November. Of all the countries represented since the series began in 1970, New Zealand has been the most successful with six winners. New Zealand’s first […]
Former New Zealand pacers and now two of WA’s best, Mister Smartee (Always B Miki) and Cyclone Jordy (Art Major) are close to resuming for West Australian harness racing trainer Gary Hall Snr. Mister Smartee won one of his two starts as a two year old in New Zealand before he was bought by West […]
Custom packages are now available for those wanting to follow the World Driving Championship (WDC25) around New Zealand this November. This will be the first time New Zealand has hosted the prestigious event on its own. Ten drivers from around the world, including our own Blair Orange, will compete at the following venues: Kaikoura – […]
