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Junior harness racing driver Ben Hope was born into a strong harness racing family. He’s been lucky enough to drive a champion trotter and not many juniors get that opportunity. The twenty three year old certainly has plenty of harness racing pedigree and remembers getting in the gig with his dad Greg at a young
“I love my horses, it’s just a shame I didn’t do this earlier,” he said. His win tally could increase on Wednesday when three of his team race in Invercargill. Wilson thought Galleons Future was possibly his best chance ahead of his other two runners, Tease My Tartan and Better Galleon. “I really like Galleons Future. He’s a nice wee horse ... I think he’s got a reasonable future.” Wilson has owned racehorses for more than 30 years with one of his success stories being Atomwise who, in a five-month period in 1997, won five of eight starts and was sold to Australia for $200...