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The Garrard family’s involvement in harness racing goes back a century but their foray into breeding and selling yearlings is a relatively new venture. Trainer Daren Garrard, 55, has 15 horses in work. He has trained 559 winners of more than $3 million. He had an outstanding 2023 season, training 27 winners of $367,000 in
An exceptionally strong line-up of race-winning mares and winner-producing mares will anchor the Australian Pacing Gold sale to be held at the Magic Millions, Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28. Of the 85 lots to be presented, 55 are out of race winners and 45 are from winner-producers including a swag of ‘black type’ performers.
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
Brilliant Changeover two-year-old Quik Change tasted Group 1 harness racing success for the first time when he captured the $150,000 QBred Triad Final at Albion Park on Saturday night (Aug 19). Taking full advantage of a pocket trip, the gelding rallied strongly down the outside to win comfortably by two metres. The mile rate for