Queen Elida News Today

A courageous roll of the dice by astute Victorian harness racing trainer Anton Golino has delivered another Group one victory to Australia’s most passionate trotting outfit, Yabby Dam Farms. Im Ready Jet (Quaker Jet) took her career stakes to $700,000 with a tough and emphatic win in the $100,000 Slingsby Holdings McArthur Mile Trotting Mares

When Harness Racing New Zealand published the nominations for last week's Lyell Creek stakes, the one glaring omission was the presence of the Greg and Nina Hope-trained Muscle Mountain (Muscle Hill). By his own imperious standards, his performance in the TAB Trot on Grin's night at Cambridge Raceway three weeks ago appeared to be below

Just Believe can show why he was crowned Australian Trotter of the Year when he hunts another big-race victory in New Zealand.

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America brought to you by Yabby Dam Farms & Racing! Yabby Dam Racing, principal Pat Driscoll’s dream to breed and race world class trotters was born after seeing a billboard on the Champs Elysees in Paris advertising the famous trotting

A decision to buy a trotting mare ten years ago continues to pay dividends for former Southland harness racing trainer Tony Barron and Southland dairy farmer Gordon McKenzie. After Queen Kenny (Monarchy) ran second at Wyndham on debut in February 2014 for Oamaru trainer Phil Williamson, Barron and McKenzie were able to purchase the royally

As far as harness racing contests go, tonight's inaugural $600,000 TAB Trot Slot bared semblance to that of a Bledisloe Cup clash with a trans-Tasman showdown for the ages. The four Victorian square gaiters, spearheaded by a phenomenal victory by Just Believe (Orlando Vici) and Greg Sugars, gave it to their New Zealand counterparts with

While the harness racing connections of the Australian pacers may have been left rueing a gold old dose of the 'visitors draws' at the barrier reveal for Cambridge Raceway's Night of Champions, the same couldn't be said for their trotting counterparts. With the Brent Lilley trained ex-pat kiwi Queen Elida being the exception as the

Harnesslink Insider subscriber and born-again harness racing enthusiast, Glenn Donavan, has a shot at winning $50,000 with the Brent Lilley-trained Queen Elida carrying his TAB Trot Slot Sweepstake dream. Donavan secured a sweepstake ticket as one of 30 Harnesslink Insider subscribers, but courtesy of a typo in the spelling of his surname, wasn't sure whether

Taranaki harness racing enthusiast, Costa Ellis, got the shock of his life when attending a formal function for his professional trade last Thursday night when his sweepstake ticket was pulled as one of the eight lucky participants with a chance to win $50,000. Only hours earlier had Ellis learned he was one of the ten

Yabby Dam principal Pat Driscoll is hoping timely scheduling of Nutrien heats at Ballarat will allow Nathan Jack to partner reigning Great Southern Star harness racing champion Callmethebreeze (Trixton) in the $575,000 Trot Slot at Cambridge in a fortnight. Jack, who has driven Callmethebreeze in all five Australian starts, is likely to have driving engagements