18 February, 2012
Ever-improving gelding Heza Trick continued his breakout feature-race season when he proved too good for a slick field in Saturday night’s $25,000 TAB Sportsbet Geelong Pacing Cup. The Glenn Douglas-trained five-year-old affirmed his status as a potential Grand Circuit performer when he ran down...
11 February, 2012
Kerryn Manning was the queen of Dalvui Raceway on Saturday night when she completed the Terang Pacing Cup-Trotters Cup double. The champion Great Western reinswoman made the most of a pick-up drive to score an upset win aboard the Lance Justice-trained Onedin Hustler in the $25,000 pacing feature, having...
10 February, 2012
What do the more-than-handy trotters Acacia Ridge, Noopy Kiosk, Armed Guard, Master Maori, Melpark Sunrise & Beleva have in common ? Answer: Each is listed on the honour roll of past winners of the Tontine Trotters Series Final. This sextet of squaregaiters collectively notched up 132 career victories...
28 January, 2012
Highview Tommy played the role of party pooper when he caused the biggest upset in Ballarat Cup history at Bray Raceway on Saturday night. The $125,000 Group 1 PETstock Ballarat Pacing Cup brought together Australian harness racing’s undisputed king, Smoken Up, and the heir apparent, Sushi Sushi,...
27 January, 2012
The Bendigo Harness Racing Club and the Harness Racing Training Centre have introduced a unique new three race series for young drivers. The HRTC Rising Stars Young Drivers Series will be raced at Bendigo and Maryborough in February with the first of the three races being conducted at Bendigo next Friday...
23 January, 2012
Daryl Douglas abandoned family loyalty for Sunday’s historic 25,000 Greggs Electrical Ouyen Cup and he was rewarded when the Peter Tonkin-trained Devilish Smile scored a dominant win in the 2809-metre event. The champion reinsman stuck with the horse on whom he won last year’s Group 1 Vicbred...
19 January, 2012
Harness racing makes its long-awaited and exciting return to Ouyen this Sunday with a big crowd and quality racing expected. The return follows the Victorian Coalition Government’s commitment to re-open the track following its closure under the Labor Government in 2005. Minister for Racing Denis...
15 January, 2012
For Paul Rowse there can still be victory in defeat. And that is the attitude the Ballarat HRC chief executive will take into his A$125,000 hometown cup on Saturday week. Rowse will wear two hats at the club’s biggest meeting, as he also trains Decorated Jasper, who recorded the biggest win of...
13 January, 2012
The Baillieu Coalition Government is providing almost $10,000 to the Hamilton Harness Racing Club to help put on exciting entertainment and activities at this Sunday’s $25,000 Hamilton Pacing Cup. Minister for Racing Denis Napthine and the Nationals Member for Lowan Hugh Delahunty said this year’s...
12 January, 2012
Trainer Chris Lang Jr. says Miss Warbucks is ready for her clash with current trotting star, Will Trapper in Saturday night’s Group 3 Maori Mile at Lords Raceway. Bendigo and the surrounding region has become the hub of trotting in Victoria and Will Trapper and Miss Warbucks are currently two of...
11 January, 2012
The top fancies will start on the front row in Saturday night’s $50,000 PETstock Bendigo Pacing Cup. Horsham Cup placegetter Decorated Jasper should feature strongly in the Group 2 race after drawing barrier one, while star Bendigo mare Make Mine Cullen faces a tougher task from barrier seven....
11 January, 2012
Someone is going to be Mister or Miss popular about 9:30PM on Saturday night when the Bendigo Harness Racing Club’s major prize of a Holiday for Two in Paris (France) will be drawn at Lords Raceway. The prize, sponsored by Flight Centre Bendigo, the Bendigo Harness Racing Club and Harness Racing...
08 January, 2012
Owner Peter Chambers has just one more wish for Victoria’s next Queen of the Cups, Glenferrie Alexis. And that is the biggest Cup of the all, the $425,000 Hunter Cup at Tabcorp Park Melton on February 4. Chambers listened in from his work base in Indonesia tonight as Glenferrie Alexis won the $60,000...
28 December, 2011
David Aiken produced one of the most dominant training performances ever seen on the Choice Hotels Country Cups circuit at Cobram on Wednesday. The Avenel horseman achieved the rare feat of supplying a Country Cup trifecta when Jaccka Clive, Composed and Smudge Bromac fought out the $25,000 Jim Phillips...
11 December, 2011
Captain Joy might have booked himself a crack at next Saturday night’s SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup with his breakthrough win in Sunday’s $25,000 Stawell Retravision Stawell Pacing Cup. The Susan Hunter-trained former champion two and three-year-old logged only his fourth win since graduating...
10 December, 2011
A tick under 12 months after his second Victorian Group 1 win, former North American Mr Feelgood has done it again at Cranbourne. Aided by a brilliant tactical steer by Cobbity all-rounder Luke McCarthy, the evergreen son of Grinfromeartoear overcame reigning race champion and red figure favourite Im...
09 December, 2011
Jukebox Music kicked off what could be an unforgettable weekend of Choice Hotels Country Cup action for Strathfieldsaye brothers Glenn and Daryl Douglas with an upset win in Friday night’s $12,000 Warehouse Sales Wedderburn Pacing Cup at Melton’s Tabcorp Park. Twenty-four hours before stable...
09 December, 2011
Summertime traditionally heralds the arrival of the Choice Hotels Country Cups Carnival throughout the Western Region of Victoria. To celebrate the “coming of the cups” the Horsham, Hamilton & Stawell Harness Racing Clubs have joined forces to give racegoers the chance to win a $3000...
06 December, 2011
Champion pacer Im Themightyquinn has landed barrier four for his Group 1 Decron Pacing Cup defence at Cranbourne this Saturday night. Freakish when reeling off one of Tabcorp Park’s fastest ever final halves in last weekend’s Popular Alm FFA, Gary Hall’s 7-time Group 1 winner was one...
02 December, 2011
Glenferrie Alexis pressed claims for recognition as the queen of Victoria’s Choice Hotels Country Cups circuit with victory in Friday afternoon’s $25,000 SEW-Eurodrive Yarra Valley Pacing Cup. The Craig Demmler-trained six-year-old registered her second regional feature in just over a month...
02 December, 2011
An awesome line-up of Grand Circuit pacers appear set to descend upon Cranbourne for Saturday week’s $100,000 Decron Pacing Cup at Group 1 level. Headlined by superstar Sandgroper and defending race champion Im Themightyquinn, this year’s Cranbourne Cup field looms as the finest in its 48...
21 November, 2011
The Victorian Coalition Government has confirmed the six country harness racing tracks forced to close in 2005 under the previous Labor Government will begin to resume racing from January 2012. Attending Friday evening’s Gordon Rothacker Medal ceremony, Minister for Racing Denis Napthine announced...
21 November, 2011
When Lisa Miles and Pocket Boy made a clean getaway from the tapes on Friday night, the Monegeetta conditioner knew the pair was more than a good chance to claim their first win for the season. The eight-year-old gelding led the field at the bell and held on to win the St Arnaud Sporting Club Pacing...
31 October, 2011
Six-year-old Courage Under Fire/Alegria mare Glenferrie Alexis was victorious in taking the $25,000 Central Goldfields Shire Maryborough Gold Cup for M0 or better over 2690 metres at Maryborough on Monday. Prepared at Parwan by the partnership of Craig Demmler and Jodi Quinlan, Glenferrie Alexis bred...
23 October, 2011
Hulking Congupna horseman Scott Stewart has celebrated a triumphant, prodigal homecoming by partnering brilliant 5YO Bitobliss to success in the $70,000 SEW-Eurodrive Kilmore Cup. A former Kilmore native when apprenticed to the all-conquering Knight stable some two decades ago, Stewart remedied a moderate...
23 October, 2011
Gifted Gisborne speed machine Broadways Best has overcome a sensation at the start to claim the $20,000 Seelite Windows & Doors Popular Alm Sprint in breathtaking, track record fashion. Able to avoid the early carnage caused when race favourite Decorated Jasper ($3) broke up soon after the start,...
21 October, 2011
Horsham & Dist. Harness Racing Club officials believe a substantial jump in prize money will attract stronger fields to their flagship, twilight, Cup meeting in January 2012. Club president Kevin Lane said the Wimmera Mail-Times Horsham Pacing Cup, to be run on January 8th, had received a stakemoney...
20 October, 2011
At weekend’s close Ballarat HRC CEO Paul Rowse may well feel as old as the wonderful club he represents. Not so fresh from a five day Gold Coast getaway that immediately preceded an inundation of work upon his recent return, the popular Chief Executive and hobby horseman is now preparing for his...
20 October, 2011
As a Kilmore native, the SEW-Eurodrive Kilmore Cup has always been a race close to the heart of Scott Stewart. But while Stewart has scaled the highest mountain in harness racing as a driver, steering the Vin Knight-trained Jodie’s Babe to Inter Dominion success as a 21-year-old in 1989, he has...
13 October, 2011
Another $30,000 Tooleybuc Sporting Nyah Pacing Cup, another Glenn Douglas invasion on the northern Victorian track. The Bendigo horseman will gear-up a trio of runners in the Group 3 feature, a 2570-metre standing start event that Douglas has trained the winner of in three of the past four years and...
10 October, 2011
After last year’s resounding success, the Nyah Harness Racing Club are once again celebrating their status as the launching pad for the Choice Hotels Country Cup season. To be staged on Saturday, October 15, the Tooleybuc Sporting Club Nyah Pacing Cup will be the first stop on Victoria’s...
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