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Busy Victorian harness racing trainer Jason Hackett hasn’t been seen at the races too often in 2023 – but that just made a first-up win with three-year-old Alannah Miki (Always Be Miki) at Melton (Sept 19) so much sweeter. Hackett and his partner Cassandra Troon work full time on pre-training and breaking, but like to
He was once regarded as Australia’s biggest and best-known harness racing punter. But Tom Hogan, fondly known as “Tara Tom”, was also a genuinely good bloke. Hogan, 74, this week lost his fight against illness, and an outpouring of tributes reflect the respect, admiration and love he garnered during a 50-plus years association with the
The cream rose to the top when country Victorian dairy farmer Nicholas O’Connor landed his first harness racing winner as both a trainer and driver last week. Twenty-three-year-old O’Connor, a third-generation horseman, drove a well-judged race to land the money with Fouroutoffive (Muscle Mass USA) in the 3yo Maiden Trot at Ballarat (August 18). “I
Sunbury-based harness racing trainer-driver Shane Taylor had an inkling that he would go close to getting his breakthrough training victory at the Kilmore meeting last Sunday night (Aug. 13), and he wasn’t disappointed. “My partner Julia wasn’t all that keen on going. I told her that I had a feeling that he wouldn’t be far