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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

It's not often you get harness racing of the quality we were treated to today on a Monday afternoon, however Auckland Anniversary Day provided just that with an eight race programme at Cambridge Raceway headlined by the fourth instalment of the $41,500 G3 Waikato Trotting Breeders Stakes. A capacity field of 14 trotting mares greeted

It's not often you get harness racing of the quality we were treated to today on a Monday afternoon, however Auckland Anniversary Day provided just that with an eight race programme at Cambridge Raceway headlined by the fourth instalment of the $41,500 G3 Waikato Trotting Breeders Stakes. A capacity field of 14 trotting mares greeted

After the first night of heats, New Zealand harness racing driver Sarah O'Reilly is a co-leader in the 1Equine Australasian Young Drivers' Championships currently being run in Queensland. Canterbury-based O'Reilly has accrued 33 points to sit at the top of the table tied with Queensland driver Angus Garrard. O'Reilly had a win, a third and

Southland harness racing stable hand and Kidz Kartz driver Olivia Thomas is heading to Brisbane next month to represent New Zealand at the Inter-Dominion Pony Trots in Queensland, Australia. “I’m stoked. It’s a great opportunity,” she said. HRNZ selected Thomas and Anna Mangles from Canterbury and both have been invited by the Queensland Junior Harness Racing Association

In racing terms twenty one year old harness racing junior driver Zev Meredith hasn’t had an easy run. He’s broken up a few times and gone into a full blown gallop once but after being put aside he’s come back a better horseman. Zev said he didn’t spend much time at school and it was

Junior harness racing driver Crystal Hackett is a star on the rise. The nineteen year old has come a long way in a short time and is currently third equal with Ben Hope, in the New Zealand Junior Drivers Premiership. In only her third season of driving she is honing in on her fiftieth winning

Junior harness reinswoman Crystal Hackett scored a career highlight at Cambridge Raceway last night, driving four winners. “I was pretty stoked to get three. And four is even better,” she told Jo Stevens on Track Chat. The run of winning form started in Race One with Ilsas Son, (Majestic Son) for trainers Barry Purdon and