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THE prospect of taking on two-time New Zealand Cup winner Swayzee doesn’t bother leading harness racing trainer David Aiken. His stable star Max Delight (Bettor’s Delight) has had a brief let-up since finishing fifth to Kingman at Menangle in mid-September. Of course, Kingman went on to put up an extraordinary performance to win the Victoria Cup. […]
Smart filly Peace Out (Bettors Delight) was rewarded for her consistency with an all the way win in the Nutrien Equine New South Wales Breeders Challenge Heat for three year old fillies at Newcastle on Friday evening. In doing so she continued the winning steak of the McDowell training stable. Ideally drawn in barrier 2, […]
HE’s closing in on 1000 driving wins in his harness racing career and Michael Stanley has found a happy home since settling at Menangle. The former Victorian felt the time was right to make the move north to chase the bigger prizemoney races. And while experienced pair Rocknroll Doo and Ubetcha Tigerpie were the two […]
Veteran pacer Magnificent Storm (American Ideal) stepped up his preparation of the future feature races when he led all the way for an effortless harness racing win in the Listed Howard Porter Memorial Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday evening. Making amends for his desperately unlucky last start when fifth in the August Cup after […]
FORMER Victorian Michael Stanley has been the man to man to follow at Tabcorp Park Menangle this week. And his fabulous form since making Menangle his permanent harness racing base is set to continue on Saturday night at the No.1 track. Stanley’s week to remember began when one of his stable’s leading lights Ubetcha Tigerpie (Betting Line) ran […]
There might not be too many dry eyes at Tabcorp Park Menangle should the well-backed Fighter Command (Always B Miki) win Saturday night’s $2.1m TAB Eureka, the world’s richest harness race. That’s because the late great champion reinsman Greg Sugars would have been aboard the four-year-old for his trainer-partner Jess Tubbs if not for his untimely death […]
CHAMPION Bathurst driver Amanda Turnbull doesn’t take too many drives outside of her family’s horses. Yet she was quick to agree to drive improving square-gaiter Im Bobby at Tabcorp Park Menangle on Saturday night when the harness racing gelding chases his fourth successive win with four different drivers. Im Bobby has drawn gate nine in Race 4, the […]
LITTLE wonder leading Victorian horseman Michael Stanley has decided to make his move to Sydney a permanent one. Bringing a select harness racing team to train at Menangle has proven a master stroke by Stanley, who has a string of winners since renting boxes at Menangle Training Centre. He scored another win at Menangle on Saturday night […]
THEY might be hard work but exciting young harness racing reinswoman Zara Fitzpatrick admits she actually prefers driving square-gaiters to pacers. And the 17-year-old showed why on Saturday night when she landed her first Saturday night metropolitan success, scoring with Cee Cee In Paris in the Trotters Foundation Final for two-year-olds at Menangle. True to form, Fitzpatrick heads […]
ACE Victorian trainer Emma Stewart heads back to Menangle on Saturday night chasing another feature win with up and coming pacer Luv The Highlife (Poster Boy). She’s unbeaten from two starts and related to a modern day champion, so it’s only a matter of time before Luv The Nitelife is compared to her famous half-sister. […]
IT’S one of the biggest nights of harness racing of the year. And tonight’s Chariots Of Fire meeting at Club Menangle has gun reinsman Cameron Hart eyeing a shot at history in the Group 1 feature. Hart won last year’s Chariots Of Fire with Frankie Ferocious and tonight hopes to become the first reinsman to […]
The Regan Todd trained Lakelsa (Captaintreacherous) graduated into the harness racing big time tonight, when in just her fifteenth start she took out the $100,000 Group One Fahy Fence Hire New Zealand Breeders Stakes at Addington. It was a nervous watch for most, as Princess Meritaten took the passing lane for the run home and […]
HE has an amazing strike rate, landing a harness racing winner once in every four drives. And it takes some seriously-talented horseflesh to lure premier reinsman Greg Sugars out of Victoria. Yet the 40-year-old reinsman, fast closing in on his 4000th career winner, hits Menangle on Saturday night in search of a treble for top […]
The lone mare in Saturday night’s $500,000 TAB Inter Dominion Pacers Grand Final at Tabcorp Park Menangle might bring a few of the ‘boys’ undone. My Moonlite Dream has been tipped as the early leader in the Group 1, leaving her harness racing trainer-drive Seaton Grima with quite a decision. Certainly, the mare, a $14 […]
The Locomotive (Muscle Mass) may start an odds-on favourite for the $150,000 TAB Inter Dominion Trotters Final after drawing gate four for next week’s showdown at Club Menangle. The star mare expected to be his major hurdle, Queen Elida, draw right beside him in gate five, ensuring the final should be a real battle of […]
He may have been the best performed pacer in the three harness racing heats but Goulburn pacer Captains Knock (Captaintreacherous) will need some luck after drawing gate 9, the inside of the second row, for next weekend’s $500,000 TAB Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final. On the other hand, champion horseman Luke McCarthy left Menangle […]
He’s the King of Menangle. And now he’s the proud winner of the two richest harness races ever run in the world. Luke McCarthy showed he wasn’t ready to relinquish his crown as the King Of Menangle with a magnificent victory with Don Hugo (Art Major) in Saturday night’s $2.1m TAB Eureka at Tabcorp Park Menangle. […]
Oak Grove is to host a 12-dash harness racing card on Tuesday (Apr. 16th). Pick 5 wagers start in both the first and sixth races. The feature race is the $30,000 Open Trot in the sixth race. The 5-2 morning line favourite in the Open Trot is Railee Something (International Moni). The four-year-old mare is […]
IT seems a winning double is no trouble for leading harness racing reinsman Cameron Hart these days. The state’s premier driver landed a winning double at Young on Friday night and backed that up with another two winners at Menangle on Saturday night. Now the 25-year-old reinsman will look for a repeat performance at Menangle […]
Ignore this state’s leading harness racing reinsman at your peril at Tabcorp Park Menangle on Saturday night. Yet that’s exactly what Cameron Hart will be hoping for when he takes to the track with trainer Jason Grimson’s latest hotshot Frankie Ferocious (Captaintreacherous) in the $250,000 Cordina Chicken Farm Chariots Of Fire. Unbeaten since joining Grimson’s […]
Amigo Volo (Father Patrick) was unhindered by a week off as he captured his third consecutive $36,000 Preferred at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Monday (Feb. 26). Tyler Borth directed the harness racing gelding to the lead from post seven, cutting an opening panel of :27.4. Amigo Volo went unchallenged through the half in :57.1 and […]
He may never have trained an out-and-out champion, but Jimmy Caffyn was a lot more to harness racing than that. He was a champion bloke and our sport will be all the poorer with his passing on Sunday, at the age of 84. Jimmy’s wife and lifelong partner Kay passed away just seven months ago […]
He’s conquered New Zealand and star young harness racing reinsman Cameron Hart is now setting his sights on the Inter Dominion in Queensland this week. Hart will head there hoping for a Jason Grimson ‘three-peat’ after the Menangle trainer confirmed NZ Cup winner Swayzee (Rock N Roll Heaven) would be heading for the Sunshine State. […]
Fresh from driving nine harness racing winners in the last three days Cameron Hart has some big races on the horizon. While harness fans are still in awe of two-year-old filly Lux Aeterna’s (Captaintreacherous) record-breaking win in Sunday’s $150,000 Breeders Challenge Final at Menangle, Hart is just as keen on the prospects of two of […]
