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At Forbury Park TC harness racing meeting at Oamaru tomorrow there’ll be a new name in the racebook. Twenty year old local Brooke Fodie will be having her first race day drive when she takes the reins of Justin Fun (Changeover) for local trainer Kerry Kelly in Race Two. “I’m pumped. A wee bit nervous

Smokin Bandar (Monkey Bones) won his twelfth race at the Omakau harness racing course today when he took out the $30,000 Andrew May Contracting/Alexandra New World FFA. In a day that favoured those horses close to the front, trainer driver Craig Ferguson got to the lead with Smokin Bandar before handing up to Time Up

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The stakes are high and Canterbury has plenty of talent heading south for Invercargill Harness Racing Club’s Cup Day at Ascot Park on Friday, but Southern trainers will have a strong desire to keep the money in the south. In Race One Leeston trainer Jonny Cox starts Majestic Whisper (Majestic Son). The eight year old

Southern trained horses are getting set for this Sunday’s Grand Prix premier age group harness racing meeting at Addington. See below, trainer comments on the nineteen that will be flying the southern flag on Sunday. Race Two: $110,000 IRT Group One Ace of Clubs for two year old trotting colts and geldings – 1980 mobile

Victorian harness racing young gun Ryan Sanderson isn’t daunted that he’s regarded a longshot at his international harness racing debut in the Prix Des Rencontres Internationales at Vincennes, France, on Saturday morning (Dec 2, Australian time). Twenty-year-old Sanderson, who has driven 287 winners in his career, was selected to represent Australia in the under-26 event,

Almost four years to the day when Oscar Bonavena (Majestic Son) first contested Australasian harness racing’s biggest trotting race, the seven-year-old stallion has come up trumps and won the Dominion in front of an adoring Addington Raceway crowd. The Mark and Nathan Purdon trained trotter has overcome plenty in his life, not the least during

Is Bolt For Brilliance (Muscle Hill) ready for harness racing’s biggest trotting challenge? This is the question on punters minds leading into the Group One Renwick Farms Dominion Handicap tomorrow. Two weeks ago after giving the small field a thirty metre head start on a testing track, the six year old gelding ran third, three

Wyndham harness racing trainer Craig Ferguson’s whale of a season continued last night at Addington when he notched up a double. Grey trotter Smokin Bandar (Monkey Bones) went to the lead early in the Hydroflow Trot and stayed in front, winning by one and a half lengths. “I was a bit worried about the track.

“He felt awesome and back on track, put it that way,” Ben Hope said after Muscle Mountain (Muscle Hill) won the $40,000 Group Three What The Hill Ashburton Trotters Sprint today (Oct. 23). In doing so the giant trotter became the first horse to win the trotting classic three times. Dual winners over the years