Kiwi harness racing fans will see a seriously talented mare when Major Occasion tackles Saturday week’s Harness Jewels at Addington. Make no mistake, the Bathurst-based mare has improved so much this season she is a massive winning chance – especially
Driver Jonny Cox enjoyed a memorable moment while also helping his former training partner Amber Hoffman score her 200th career win with Imran Khan at Winton on Saturday. Cox took out the race named in his family’s honour – The Cox Family Celebration
The annual Timaru Mother’s Day race meeting this Sunday will see the sixth edition of the club’s lady drivers races held at Phar Lap Raceway. Two penalty free lady driver races are programmed to be held at the race meeting, which will be sponsored onc
New Zealand bred champion pacer Lazarus will stand his first season at stud in the Southern Hemisphere, this spring, under a landmark deal in New South Wales. Industry rumours were confirmed on Tuesday, when it was announced the two-time New Zealand Cup
Just over six months since his racing career came crashing down; superstar pacer Chicago Bull is poised for a comeback at Gloucester Park on Friday night. And that comeback is built around an Auckland Inter Dominion raid at the end of the year. Now all tr
Canterbury junior driver Ben Hope scored a career highlight when he drove Muscle Mountain to victory in the group 3 New Zealand Trotting Stakes at Addington on Saturday. Hope produced a cool tactical drive to win the first Group race of his career with th
Recently-retired pacer Ultimate Machete has been purchased for stallion duties in a partnership deal between two New Zealand stud farms. South Auckland’s Alabar Stud and Christchurch’s Nevele R Stud have acquired the son of Bettor’s Delight after he
Despite being in the twilight of his career, Speeding Spur’s future possibilities have been left wide open. The grand trotter willed his way back in to group 1 winning form with a determined effort to take out the New Zealand Trotting Championship a
Harness Racing New Zealand is excited to announce the launch of a newly redesigned website which will happen on Wednesday, May 1. Following feedback from the industry, HRNZ wanted to move with the times and give our users a website with a clean new look,
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
Bookies aren’t taking any chances with star trotter Speeding Spur in tomorrow’s Group 1 $100,000 New Zealand Trotting Free For All at Addington. He’s a $1.65 shot and punters seem happy to lap that price up. One who isn’t, though, is Ross Paynter,
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
The new training partnership of Kirstin Barclay (pictured) and Paul Ellis has made a flying start to the season and they hope to further crank up the momentum during cup week Their training operation, the southern-most in the country, has already put seve