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The sensational unbeaten youngster Verbici and Arete Virtue, who won their respective $75,000 Yabby Dam Farms 2YO Classics at Menangle last Saturday, are members of the same harness racing family. Verbici, who has won all eight starts to date for $184,204, is a gelding by the leading percentage sire Orlandi Vici out of the Listed […]
The New Zealand bred gelding On The Cards posted his 50th lifetime success when he took full advantage of a pocket trip to overwhelm his rivals in 1:51 in the $12,000 Open at Rosecroft Raceway on Monday (October 5). ON THE CARDS N REPLAY The following night, ANZAC bred pacers won seven of the […]
The Bettor’s Delight mare Let’s N Joy lowered her lifetime mark to 1:49.2 winning the $44,000 Mares’ Open at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (October 2). After settling in second last position, the four-year-old sprinted brilliant to win by 1-1/2 lengths from the ex-Aussie Sensationalize. Let’s N Joy has won 13 of her 23 starts […]
Trotting bred yearlings fetched the top dozen prices at the record-setting opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky on Monday (October 5). Chapter Seven, the leading North American trotting sire for four of the last five years, and his world champion son Walner, left 11 of the top 12 highest priced youngsters […]
Don Hunter (Huntsville), the winner of an opening round heat of the NSW Breeders Challenge two-year-old series at Menangle and who has won five of his seven starts, is a son of Miss Halfpenny, who won the Breeders Challenge 2YO Final herself in 2018. Furthermore, Miss Halfpenny is a half-sister to the 2021 Breeders Challenge […]
A trio of ANZAC bred pacers in Soho Spectre, Carrera Sunset and The Falcon clocked identical miles in 1:49.4 in North America last week. SOHO SPECTRE N REPLAY Soho Spectre, a five-year-old Art Major harness racing gelding bred by Perth breeder-owner Robert Watson, won the $23,000 Open at Plainridge Park on Thursday (September 24), […]
A trotting mare conceived in Australia by a Swedish stallion from a Swedish mare, and who was foaled, broken in and originally trained in Victoria, won at her second start in New Zealand last Friday. It is the four-year-old Who’s Who mare Aldebaranmargareta, who came from worse than midfield with a rousing late rally to […]
Ezra Kai (Tennotrump), the winner of the Trotters Carousel at Menangle, and who now been successful in three of his last 10 harness racing starts, has a pedigree of more than usual interest in that he represents a doubling up of the blood of the Hall of Fame broodmare Maori Miss. Bred by central Victorian […]
The six-year-old Huntsville mare Jensville, who was bred by Peter and the late Lesley Medhurst, became the fastest ever female bred in Australia with a 1:47.8 victory in a $16,000 race at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday (September 18). She is the fifth Aussie bred to better 1:48. After leading then handing up to the 2024 […]
The results of the recent Arqana Yearling Sale at Deauville, Normandy, France provided a massive boost for the leading Yabby Dam Farms’ frozen semen stallions Face Time Bourbon and Booster Winner. Face Time Bourbon, the dual Prix D’Amerique champion and regarded as the hottest young trotting sire in Europe today, topped the stallion averages (three […]
A big weekend of harness racing is upon us and four Vicbred Super Series Finals for the 4YO pacers and trotters will be the highlight. Melton hosts two Group 1 and two Group 2 Vicbred Super Series Finals on Saturday night. The Mimosa Homes Free For All also looks an intriguing race on the program […]
In a coup for breeders in NSW’s central west region it has been announced that Raging Bull will stand this season at Artistic Lodge, Blayney, of leading studmasters Jody Bryant and Cynthia Bourke. His service fee is a modest $1,650 including GST with multiple mare discounts and deals for on-farm mares. Raging Bull, who originally […]
Usually in this spot we are looking at the overall top 20 among North American sires on the all aged list. But with the year nearing the September 30 third quarter mark, it makes for a perfect opportunity to explore the leaders among this year’s first crop sires. Not surprisingly, Monte Miki and Pebble Beach, […]
One of the biggest and most international harness racing cards of the North American season takes centre stage at Yonkers Raceway this Saturday, headed by the $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot. Ten trotters representing racing interests from across North America and Europe will tackle the demanding mile-and-a-quarter feature, while another $500,000 will be on […]
Francent, a five-year-old daughter of Vincent, became the 10th fastest New Zealand bred of all-time when she clocked 1:47.6 winning the Grade 2 $255,000 Milton Stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night (September 5). FRANCENT N REPLAY She led home a NZ quinella with Louie’s Girl second in a fresh race, track and […]
Group winners or Group winner-producers left no less than eleven heat and semi-final harness racing winners of the rich Vicbred Super Series conducted at Melton last weekend. Kahula and Ideal Frankie, who won the semi-finals of the two-year-old fillies’ division, are both out of past Vicbred champions in Kualoa (2YO and 3YO) and Pistol Abbey […]
Some of North America’s best pacers and trotters converge on Woodbine Mohawk Park this weekend, with the $705,000 Canadian Pacing Derby and $255,000 Milton Stakes among the highlights of a huge Saturday night card. Canadian Pacing Derby The Canadian Pacing Derby shapes as a wide-open affair after Prince Hal Hanover and For Once Inmy Life […]
The Rock N Roll Heaven gelding Blazing Home, who was bred by Michele Carson, led for the last three-quarters and survived a late challenge to win the $100,000 Joe Gerrity Jnr Memorial in 1:51.8 at Saratoga Raceway on Saturday night (August 29). It was his ninth harness racing win for the season. BLAZING HOME N […]
A carefully planned harness racing breeding program devised more than 10 years ago is starting to come to fruition for Western Victorian breeder Lyndon Turner. Hailing from a beef cattle background, Turner ranks as the breeder of one of the State’s most outstanding juveniles in Cardigan Sniper, who won a heat of the APG Vicbred […]
Some of North America’s most exciting two-year-old trotters will take centre stage at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night when the $570,000 William Wellwood Memorial and $425,000 Peaceful Way Stakes headline a huge Grand Circuit harness racing programme. Both Grade 1 finals have attracted deep fields after last weekend’s eliminations, with Marcus Melander holding a […]
The talented New Zealand bred harness racing mare Acushla Machree (Vincent) led home an ANZAC quinella with Sweet Hayley Jane second in 1:50 in the $25,000 Open Handicap at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (August 18). It was her fifth win of the season and 20th lifetime. ACUSHLA MACHREE N REPLAY Tick A Loch (Always […]
Colonial bred stallions left the winners of five of the six QBred Triad Finals for harness racing pacers at Albion Park last Saturday night. The vanguard was led by the A. G. Hunter Cup and Victoria Cup hero Bling It On (Cobbitty Equine Farm), who left the winner of the Grade 1 $150,000 classic for […]
The former New Zealand pacers Makorori (by Downbytheseaside) and Still Rollin (by Rock N Roll Heaven) posted new lifetime marks of 1:49.2 and 1:49.8 respectively winning at Plainridge Park on Monday (August 10). Meanwhile, a pair of Aussie breds in Horn Player (1:49.4), who was bred by Jake Stockton, of Wingate Farm, and Naturally Gifted […]
The Always B Miki colt Enjoy Life, who won the $40,000 Woodlands Stud Tasmanian Derby at Hobart, is the second harness racing winner of the Apple Isle’s premier three-year-old classic bred and owned by famed Victorian breeder Peter Gleeson, who also brought out the 2023 winner Celebrity Royal. Enjoy Life is the fifth major Derby […]
