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Every spring, harness racing trainers converse, hope, and dream about their prospective 2-year-olds in training—much in the same way breeders ponder about their stallion’s first crop of youngsters. What follows is an examination of the stallions who are first crop sires—with statistics garnered from the US Trotting Association—and some of the mares they were bred

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. Stingray Tara on top Stingray Tara (Bettor’s Delight), a Menangle winner last weekend in 1:51.2, after coming from worse than midfield, has now won 16 races and $246,824 and

A pair of leading lights in the NSW harness racing breeding industry, Joanne Andersen and Dyanna Thommeny, will be represented for the first time at a Queensland yearling sale with a single entry in the Australian Pacing Gold sale at Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28. Andersen, a former president and life member of Harness

The Australian Pacing Gold sale at Magic Millions, Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28 features the progeny of 33 individual stallions including three exciting first season sires. The trio of newcomers are the 2019 USA 2YO of the Year and 2020 3YO Colt of the Year and Horse of the Year, Tall Dark Stranger (1:47.2),

Burwood Stud, which was founded in 1982 by Noel and Christine Denning and has stood the successful harness racing sires Ultimate Falcon, Cammibest and Changeover, have been long-time supporters of the Australian Pacing Gold sales-race series. This year the stud is offering seven well-bred yearlings – the third largest draft at the sale – at

Ola Yoder, the founder and owner of the uber-successful Kountry Wood Products in Nappanee, Indiana has put the same amount of effort, forethought and savvy into his harness racing breeding program that he has into his cabinetry business, and it is paying off.

Ola Yoder, the founder and owner of the uber-successful Kountry Wood Products in Nappanee, IN has put the same amount of effort, forethought, and savvy into his harness racing breeding program that he has into his cabinetry business, and it is paying off. Yoder’s list of broodmares and stallion investments reads like a “who’s who”

For the second time in three years, owner John Fodera will watch three of his horses compete in the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup at Woodbine Mohawk Park.