Author: NZHarnessNews

By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Trainer Jeremy Young is hoping his winning run continues when he heads to Addington Raceway on Sunday for the Grand Prix Meeting. His Auckland barn was in strong form at Cambridge Raceway on Thursday night, scoring a winning double courtesy of Twist Little Girl in the Dunstan Salute Mobile Pace (2200m) and Osko in the Merry Christmas From Dunstan Mobile Pace (2200m). A daughter of Jewels runner-up Twist N Shout, Twist Little Girl was purchased as a weanling out of Alabar Stud’s 2020 New…

By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Both horse and trainer will be on debut when Montoya lines up in the first at the Akaroa Trotting Club meeting at Motukarara on Saturday. Devon van Til has had her trainer’s licence for over a year but is yet to officially train a runner on race day. That all changes in the Lincoln Golden Oldies Mobile Pace at noon. Last year she was poised to have her first runner, with Duastar in a Team Teal race but the horse was sold to…

By Jonny Turner Matthew Williamson hopes the good times can continue with Ariella at Wingatui on Friday. The reinsman combines again with the mare who provided him with his 1000th win in New Zealand, last year. From barrier 1 in race 8, Ariella looks a big chance of notching another victory with Williamson in the sulky. “She is a good grass tracker, they have taken the hopples off her so hopefully she paces the whole way,” Williamson said. “They have been looking at doing it for a long time because…

By Adam Hamilton Josh Dickie is pinching himself. As if just catching up with old boss and mate Tony Herlihy in Melbourne for a few weeks wasn’t enough of a buzz, he’s now snared a one-off drive on Bolt For Brilliance. With Herlihy zapping back to NZ for Sunday’s stellar Addington meeting, he’s given Dickie the reins on Bolt For Brilliance in the last round of Inter Dominion qualifying heats at Geelong on Saturday night. “It’s awesome. I can’t thank Tony enough,” Dickie said. “It’s great to get the chance to…

By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Cambridge gelding Nicholas Cage will face his sternest test on Sunday when he heads to Addington Raceway to compete against the best three-year-old pacers in the land in the Group 1 Sunshine Stars New Zealand Derby (2600m). The Art Major gelding won four of his last five races in the north before he arrived in Christchurch late last month where he finished seventh over 1980m against many of his Derby adversaries at Addington last Friday. Trainers Andrew and Lyn Neal were happy enough with…

After months of hard work and dedication from our board and staff at Southern Harness Racing, we are pleased to announce the launch of our updated website! Our primary goal during the redesign process was to lift the profile of harness racing in the southern region and provide a platform to showcase our member clubs and their upcoming race meetings including not just racing but also sponsorship and hospitality options. We also wanted to create a more trainer and owner orientated site, to enable those involved and interested in the…

By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Graeme Rogerson and Dylan Ferguson are looking forward to lining up a pair of trotters in Canterbury this weekend but have more immediate targets closer to home tonight. The Hamilton trainers will take a five-strong team to Cambridge Raceway on Thursday, led by last start winner Loutenant in the Dunstan Sweet Mix Mobile Pace (2200m) where he will be joined by stablemate Jaccka Cooper “Loutenant has been racing well, so he is always going to be thereabouts,” Ferguson said. “It is a decent step-up…

Here’s Greg O’Connor and Darrin Williams with the latest Addington News, focusing on Sunday’s Grand Prix.  

The times are changing for the Akaroa Trotting Club. So often used to having the first Sunday of December on the grass at Motukarara all to themselves this year they will be running their one and only meeting for the year a day earlier, this Saturday. “We are a tenant club and we have to do what’s good for the industry,” says Akaroa Trotting Club President Keith Ballantyne, “and it will be interesting to see how we go on Trackside 2 on a Saturday as opposed to Trackside 1 on…

The 2022 SENZ Cadet of the Year winner will soon be crowned. The final stage of the competition is upon us with the four finalists excelling in all of their regional challenges. They will now battle it out for the right to call themselves the SENZ Cadet of the Year. Representing Canterbury is the regional winner Carter Dalgety and runner-up Tom Bamford. Travelling up from the deep south to contest the title is the Southern regional winner Oliver Kite and the Northern regional winner Zev Meredith will also make the…