Roy Purdon News Today

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

The curtain is coming down on the wonderful harness racing career of Cambridge trainer Mike Berger. Over a span of forty three years he’s won more than 700 races including a New Zealand Cup, a Taylor Mile, two Easter Cups and a New Zealand Standardbred Breeders Stakes. His exit is partly due to the current

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

Lester Drake has been around harness racing horses all his life and if Swayzee (Rock N Roll Heaven) starts in next month’s IRT New Zealand, it’ll be the thrill of a lifetime for the former Southlander. “I never missed a Trotting Cup when I lived on the coast (West Coast). That was my trip away

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