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Harness racing Summer Of Glory ready to rumble Harness racing Summer Of Glory ready to rumble by Adam Hamilton Theres a real State of Origin feel about this Hunter Cup. The marquee race of harness racing’s Summer Of Glory looks a match in two between Victoria’s superstar Lochinvar Art and the defending champion, NSW pin-up pacer King Of Swing. They’ve clashed three times, with King Of Swing holding a 2-1 advantage, but it was their latest meeting which turned the tide and is wh...

Stuart McCormick photo An ambitious plan for a mid-year harness racing campaign in the United States is on the radar for Australasias best pacer, Lochinvar Art. While there are a lot of "ifs and buts" to bring the plan to fruition, trainer David Moran and owner Kevin Gordon have actively been canvassing the concept of spending the Australian winter campaigning in the USA. "Weve got a pretty exciting program ahead of us over the next three months or so, with Shepparton, Ballarat and Hunter Cups,...

Race Images Photo The last race of Mark Purdons champion training career could be decided by standing start manners in the $200,000 Woodlands Stud Auckland Cup on Thursday. The race will be the last time New Zealands greatest harness trainer has a horse race in his name for probably a year, maybe even longer as Purdon and partner Natalie Rasmussen take a step away from training. Purdon confirmed to the Herald yesterday that from Friday, the first day of 2021, all horses trained by he and Rasmus...

Tabcorp Park Menangle Harness racing fans have been handed an early Christmas present with the elite pacers surprisingly set to have an A$1million race to decide who is Australasia’s best. NSW harness officials confirmed yesterday the Miracle Mile set for Menangle outside Sydney on March 6 will be run for A$1million just months after they thought they may have to halve the stake. Already stakes in many key pacing races have been reduced due to the economic impact of Covid while the Inter Domi...

Dan Costello Photo What a way to cap the year. King Of Swing is the 2019/20 Australian Pacing Gold Grand Circuit champion following his brilliant display in the final leg of the harness racing season, the Gr.1 $175,660 TAB Blacks A Fake at Albion Park tonight (Saturday). Following victories in the Hunter Cup and Miracle Mile earlier this year, the star pacer held an insurmountable lead going into the Queensland feature, but connections were keen to put an exclamation mark against his name. And ...

Pacifico Dream is top three-year-old A top colt in Victoria this season – he has won eight races and been twice placed in 14 starts for $137,630 – is Pacifico Dream, a close relative of Guaranteed. He gave a taste of his class with a dominant win in the Group 3 VHRC Caduceus 3YO Cup at Melton last Saturday. Earlier in the season he won the VHRC Sires Classic at Melton and the Central Victorian Pacing Championship at Wedderburn. Pacifico Dream has a background of blood to back up his claims ...