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Denis Smith AS we waltz into a fine autumn weekend, we can think about spending Sunday afternoon at the Marburg trots. It’s the best with the “harness spectacle” much enhanced on the 700 metre showground circuit where you can identify your fancy going down the back straight with the naked eye. Gates open at 11am, with trials before the first race, which goes at 12.51 pm. Eight races are programmed with a TAB facility, bookmaker, “funny money” bookmaker, mini-trotters, “pat a pony”, best country burgers, cheap alcoholic beverages, home made desserts and â�...

THE following is an initiative proposed by Harness Racing Australia, supposedly for “ industry consultation”. This in itself, would be a novelty given the “consultative process” which we were told preceded the adoption of the horrendous “ratings” handicapping system with which we are now saddled. Australian breeders are set to benefit with a prizemoney injection of more than $2m into new racing opportunities for Australian bred horses which will lift the industry to new heights. The Harness Racing Australia (HRA) Executive is proposing the immediate introductio...

10th Apr 2021 6:30 AM TROT TACTICS EASTER has come and gone for another year. No final figures are available at this point for the Easter Sunday Fun Day trot meeting. However, Marburg Pacing Association president Scott Neaves and his committee of hardworking volunteers thank the families and trots patrons who braved the damp and threatening weather conditions to enjoy a great day's racing. The crowd appeared to be a fairly even mix of new and regular faces which makes the Marburg crew believe that they, and their harness racing product, are beginning to be seen...

The secret to cooking the perfect Easter roast lamb – and best recipes to try Save Save Teamed with soft herbs, seaweed or even cherry blossom, lamb makes a delicious partner for the flavours of spring.  Credit: haarala hamilton & valerie berry for the telegraph Follow Lamb goes with spring like Easter and eggs. Even the name feels right, when the trees are bursting into leaf, and with lamb’s grass-fed, non-intensively reared credentials. But what is spring lamb? Some say it is born in winter and eaten very young in spring, others that it is born in spring and eaten in the autumn...

Denis Smith WE must practise the distant early warning technique to raise awareness of coming events. Now that the COVID threat seems to be shrinking to manageable proportions we should turn our thoughts to the traditional show season and the need to present trotting/harness racing in one form or another - actual racing or exhibitions - at these traditional, annual fairs. In the not too distant past, trotting was the excitement factor at these gatherings, which were very heavily supported by exhibits of local farm produce and high class farm animals, all of which were presented with the s...