Champion trotter Marcoola’s comeback to the racetrack has been delayed after trainer Clint Ford decided not to start the horse from a 55-metre handicap at Addington tonight. Ford is happy with how Marcoola’s new preparation is going but wasn’t as th
Star trotter Speeding Spur has been stood down for two months after ‘bleeding’ in the Group 1 A$250,000 Great Southern Star in Melbourne on Saturday night. Speeding Spur dropped out to finish eighth after leading up in the big Group 1 event and a post
Mistakes by the more favoured runners and a brilliant steer by Todd ‘The Wizard’ Mitchell combined to produce an upset win by Massive Metro in the Gr.1 National Trot at Alexandra Park on Monday night. Temporale, Lemond and Amaretto Sun tailed the fiel
Rising star Turn It Up confirmed his freak status when he romped to a front-running win in the Auckland Cup on Monday night. The Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen-trained four-year-old joined some of the country’s greatest pacers as a winner of the Gr.1
New Zealand stars Speeding Spur, Spankem and Pat’s Delight were the big winners out of the draws for Saturday’s Inter Dominion finals. Each of the Kiwi trio had their prices shortened in betting markets after drawing crucial front row starting spots.
New Zealand’s representatives were to the fore on the first night of the Inter Dominion Series in Victoria on Saturday night, winning three of the five heats across both divisions. Wins from Spankem and Cruz Bromac gave New Zealand’s tiny pacing conti
Expectations are high ahead of Lazarus beginning his stud career in North America. The recently-retired New Zealand stallion is undergoing regulation vet tests ahead of him standing his first season at stud at Deo Volente Farms in New Jersey. Deo Volente
Speeding Spur was the big winner among the New Zealand Inter Dominion contingent when the barrier draws were announced for the opening heats of the series on Monday. The John and Josh Dickie-trained square-gaiter has drawn perfectly in barrier two in the
Oops, they did it again. West Melton’s Ford family took out New Zealand’s richest trotting race at Addington on Friday afternoon when Marcoola scored a sensational victory, 12 months after his stablemate Amaretto Sun scored at upset odds. Ken Ford tra
Cruz Bromac made it short-course Group 1 wins on either side of the Tasman in 2018 when victorious in Friday’s $200,000 Group 1 New Zealand Free For All at Addington. The New Zealand-bred pacer, who won Sydney’s Len Smith Mile in July, landed a sustai
Gerard O’Reilly is hardly a name synonymous with big trotting races but he gets a realistic chance to win the biggest one of all this week when he partners Ronald J in Friday’s $300,000 Dominion Handicap. O’Reilly is best known in more recent times
If Barry Purdon is right and logic plays its part Jack’s Legend could be the best each way bet in Tuesday’s New Zealand Trotting Cup. The one-time Jewels winner goes into the great race rated a $16 chance on the TAB, even though he ran second in it la
Robert Dunn, pictured below, feels like he has already won going into harness racing’s biggest day of the year. Because taking 17 horses to New Zealand Cup day at Addington on Tuesday, five of them for the $800,000 holy grail itself, is beyond what Du
National Harness Racing Awards for 2018 were presented on both sides of the Tasman over the last week and it was great to see that the Breckon Farms team featured prominently on both occasions. The Harness Racing Australia Awards were the first to be anno