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Mach Shard (Mach Three) performed what could be called a harness racing miracle when he took out his second Group One in a week, winning the $110,000 G1 Dawson and Harford NZ Messenger FFA at Alexandra Park in Auckland tonight. After winning the Taylor Mile at massive odds last week, the Barry Purdon-Scott Phelan trained

Just Believe can show why he was crowned Australian Trotter of the Year when he hunts another big-race victory in New Zealand.

An almost perfect set of harness racing barrier draws has turned Friday’s $110,000 Dawson Harford Taylor Mile into one of the races of the season. The $110,000 sprint will highlight one of Alexandra Park’s biggest nights of the year sitting alongside feature races for almost all grades from country cups handicappers to juvenile pacers and

Trainer Shannon Price prefers logic to emotion as she analyses the harness racing tactics of her stable star Speak The Truth (Bettor's Delight) who could become the most pivotal pacer in Friday’s $1m Race By Grins at Cambridge. Price was initially disappointed to draw barrier seven in the 2200m mobile (starting from six) but the

Alabar Bloodstock, which has been consigning yearlings to Sales for the past 50 years, has a draft of 18 beautifully grown and prepared yearlings heading to the Nutrien Melbourne sale on 14th April. The draft will feature 7 yearlings by the debut Stallions Ride High [3] and Elite Stride [4]. In their brief racetrack careers

Superstar pair Better Eclipse and Just Believe will have their final warm-up this weekend ahead of another international raid.

Globetrotting star Just Believe will have his final run in Australia at Melton this week before embarking on another overseas campaign.

Champion trotter Just Believe (Orlando Vici) returns for his one and only lead-up race at Melton on Saturday night before another huge international challenge. The eight-year-old proudly flew the Aussie flag with three fantastic runs against some of the world's best trotters in Sweden through May/June last year. Just Believe has returned home a better

Coterie, winners of the prestigious Best New Artist award at the 2023 Rolling Stone Aotearoa awards, will headline the Night of Champions afterparty at Cambridge Raceway on Friday April 12. The band of four brothers, who were born in New Zealand and raised ...

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. First Australian bred millionaire trotter The Orlando Vici gelding Just Believe achieved yet another moment of glory in a brilliant career when he became the first Australian bred trotter