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. Major Delight top three-year-old filly There was never much doubt that Major Delight (Bettor’s Delight) was the season’s top rating three-year-old filly as she was the previous season at
Harness racing trainer Brett Gray has confirmed that quality trotting mare Peregrine (Pegasus Spur) has been retired. “She had a bit of arthritis so we sent her up to Regan Todd’s to do a bit of swimming and possibly race up there. Unfortunately, a few days ago we made the call to retire her. We
Dublin Valley Farm has worked hard to establish itself as one of the Buckeye State’s premier harness racing breeding facilities, as evidenced by its recent success at the Buckeye Classic Yearling Sale, held Oct. 11 at Champions Center in Springfield, Ohio. Owned by Robert Hershberger, Dublin Valley brought in the most dollars ($661,010) from 46
Over the years, New Zealand has been blessed with some very good two year old trotters, and although traditionally the stakes for these harness racing juveniles have been well behind their pacing counterparts, there’s now a pathway to head down and some good stake money to be won for two year old square gaiters. New
On paper it was a match made in harness racing heaven. Tactical Landing, the blue blooded champion son of Muscle Hill over one of the quickest trotting mares produced in New Zealand over the last decade in Wilma's Mate (Pegasus Spur). In theory it sounds simple, but as we know in breeding, often some of