Author: NZHarnessNews

By Mike Love Carrera Bravo headlines Kimberly Butt’s four drives at Phar Lap Raceway in Timaru today. But there is a word of warning. Carrera Bravo ($3.20FF) is in Race 2, the Happy Birthday Marion Begg Mobile Pace for Butt and her Ashburton-based employers Brent and Tim White. “He should be a pretty good chance again. He should be running on at the end.” The three-year-old Downbytheseaside gelding has placed twice from as many starts, with the start crucial to his chances. “He’s got a few tricks up his sleeve,…

What was worth noting from the trials from all over the country for the week ending 26/9/2024 Wyndham Workouts-Saturday 21 September Race 1 – Styrax (5m Creatine – Larix) Trainer Mrs G McClymont Just the three runners faced the tape, and it turned into a two-horse affair with the talented Fiery Bandito leading Styrax for the last half of the heat.Both travelling well at the line with Styrax arguably travelling just as well behind the six-race winner at the line. Although a maiden from 14 attempts to date, suggested has…

By Jonny Turner The path to the Group 3 Dark Horse Trot starts at Gore on Thursday for Del’s Creation. The towering trotter is back in action from a well-earned freshen-up in Race 5, the Udy’s Grain and Feed Limited/ Regional Ford Gore Handicap Trot (3.19pm), after making giant strides in the autumn and winter for trainer Lyndon Bond. Bond is hoping Del’s Creation can make even more progress as her first attempt in Group race company approaches. The inaugural running of The Dark Horse will be run at Ascot…

By Michael Guerin It is Grand Final qualifier night at Addington this Friday. Not that the high-grade meeting is actually called that but it might as well be for plenty of the starters in the $60,000 Lamb And Hayward Canterbury Classic. The 2600m standing start is the latest in a series of almost identical races in the south in the last six weeks, all of them aiming toward the IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup on November 12. The difference is this one boasts three golden tickets to the Cup and…

Tuesday racing at Cambridge will kick start another busy week of harness racing. Today there’ll be eight races, starting at 4.30pm with four more meetings this week with Gore on Thursday, followed by Addington and Auckland (Friday) and Timaru on Sunday. Auckland’s meeting will feature the third heat of the latest Silk Road series for the Fillies and Mares. Part of a strategy to revitalise northern racing, the Silk Road Northern Spring series is in its first year and is all about encouraging, and rewarding fillies and mares with five…

Grass track racing returns this Sunday to the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club meeting at Motukarara, with the feature race being the Tactical Approach D G Jones Banks Peninsula Cup at 3.58pm. Trackside presenter Marc Cookson casts his eye over the 12 race card. Race 1 – Jean Anderson Memorial Trot (11.37am) With a 50% place record in his 12 start career, with the same percentage placing on grass, Schoemaker is the one for me showing his versatility in racing and ability. In a maiden trot at “The Mot” I am…

Craig “The Whale” Thompson is back with his best for Motukarara