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Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan continued their fantastic start to the 2024 feature harness racing season with a stable quinella in the $50,000 IRT Young Guns 2YO Trotters Final at Alexandra Park this evening. Father Patrick gelding, Higher Power, came out victorious among a boutique field of six talented juvenile trotters, displaying some of the
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 first part of the northern two year old harness racing season is coming to an end with the Group One Breckon Farms Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes on Friday night and the IRT Young Guns Two Year Old Trotters series concluding shortly. As the Barry Purdon-Scott Phelan stable looks to concentrate more on juvenile
On North American harness racing tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe the
In the twilight of his harness racing career at start number 105, many presumed the Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan-trained Mach Shard (Mach Three) was simply making up the numbers in tonight's Group One $110,000 Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park against a much younger crop of up and coming Open Class pacing talent. The two