Category: Harness

Friday’s Invercargill – Auckland double header will highlight harness racing action around the country this week. The $100,000 Group 1 Ascot Park Hotel Invercargill Cup and the Group 3 Brendan Franks Farrier David Moss Stakes headline a huge day at Ascot Park before Alexandra Park hosts its first ever $1m Golden Gait meeting. There will be 10 $100,000 races.   Invercargill’s meeting will start at 2.55, with Alexandra Park underway at 5.16pm.  Today’s Addington meeting to kick start huge week  The week starts today with a nine race Tuesday meeting…

By Adam Hamilton  Could Gary Hall Sr have another Im Themightyquinn? OK, that’s a huge call, but the champion WA trainer insists his latest star, former Kiwi pacer Mister Smartie, is second-only to “Quinny” as the best horse he’s trained. Mister Smartie, who has two starts for Craig and Aimee Edmonds in NZ for a win and a second, took his record to 15 wins from 18 starts when he toyed with his rivals in last Friday night’s $200,000 Group 1 Golden Nugget (2536m) at Gloucester Park. Despite sitting outside…

By Mike Love  Woodend Beach trainers Robert and Jenna Dunn have Bryce’s Meddle flying.  The four-year-old Terror To Love gelding made it career win number eight while taking his earnings up to and over $100,000 by winning the feature New World Rangiora Summer Cup on the grass at Rangiora. It was his second win in a row after securing the Geraldine Cup last week. Driver John Dunn was able to get safely away from their back mark of 20 metres before making the killer blow at the 1000m when they…

The Locomotive could be full steam ahead to New Zealand, Luke McCarthy wins elusive final and Cantfindabettorman gets some consolation in today’s wrap of the Inter Dominion Finals at Menangle. By Adam Hamilton  Owner Glen Holland will look seriously at a New Zealand trip with newly crowned Inter Dominion winner The Locomotive. Holland said now the $NZ650,000 TAB Trot was confirmed for Cambridge in April, it was a serious option. Like Just Believe the past two years, The Locomotive made a clean sweep of the series, winning all three heats…

Kiwi driver Sam Thornley had the perfect finale in clinching the Australasian Young Drivers’ Championships (AYDC) in Sydney last night. Driving in the first race on Inter Dominion Finals night at Menangle, Thornley teamed up with top Kiwi pacer Tact McLeod in the ninth and final heat of the championships and they left nothing to chance by leading throughout to win easily. It is Thornley’s first win in the championships, though he had finished second previously, and he became the sixth Kiwi to win the championships in the last 12…

By Michael Guerin A battling trotter has started a path to the Group 1 winners circle for young trainer Zev Meredith. Meredith joined that special club when One More Moment got up in the last stride to win the first running of the $100,00 TAB Queen Of Diamonds Trot for fillies and mares. It caps a remarkable set of Group 1 trotting wins for driver Greg Sugars, who has dominated our biggest trots for all of 2024 but probably didn’t think One More Moment would be adding to his G1…