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16/12/2024

🇳🇿 Clearing maidens is back for another week celebrating the first visits to the winners circle for a variety of performers, including a Bettor's Delight half-sister to the first horse bred outside of North America to win Horse of the Year honours! 😎

In our weekly Clearing Maidens article we look through those breaking through for their first victories.

15/12/2024

🇨🇦 Nicholas Ace Barnsdale with the report on the big son of Captaintreacherous who picked up where he left off with a commanding win in the $36,000 Preferred at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday 😤

Ervin Hanover (Captaintreacherous) returned from a four-week break to win his fourth straight harness racing contest in the $36,000 Preferred at Woodbine

15/12/2024

🇺🇸 "Money and wealth, themselves, are not evil, but the thirst for those traits beyond reasonable needs can lead to destruction and cause irreparable harm to others in numbers that are harmful and, in many causes, not reparable" 😩

Hall Of Famer, John Berry, is more qualified than most having spent a lifetime covering the sport of harness racing. This week he takes a deep dive into another pressing issue facing the industry, the politics. 🫣

I’m not too much of a religious buff, but I do know that there is an old proverb from a bible verse—I Timothy 6:10—that says ”money is the root of all evil.”

15/12/2024

🇸🇪 🇦🇺 “I always sort of knew I wanted to drive horses, but the sport can be pretty hard. Thanks to my family and a trainer that I helped for a bit as I moved home, I got my confidence and my love for harness racing back" 🥰

Terry Gange reports on a young Swede who has rediscovered her passion for the sport with a return to her homeland proving the catalyst 🫶

If Marika Eriksson thought her time in harness racing was finished when she left Australia three years ago to return to Sweden, she was wrong – but life has

14/12/2024

🇦🇺 He’s done a super job since being here. I couldn’t have a nicer horse. He’s a cool dude with a nice personality and loves to work. He’s got so much speed and he’s just a great horse. I’m thrilled to win this." 🥰

Brad Hewitt and The Locomotive were a dominant force throughout the series and finished the job with a dominant win in the Interdominion Trotting Final at Club Menangle overnight 🏆

The most exciting trotter in the land currently racing The Locomotive (Muscle Mass) again gave another breath taking display taking out the $150,000 TAB Inter

14/12/2024

🇦🇺 “To win a prestigious race like this is a dream. It’s an honour. He’s just a champion horse" 😎

Tony Milanese was on hand at Club Menangle lastnight to take in all the action from the Interdominion Final won by Luke McCarthy and Don Hugo 👏

Brilliant four year old Don Hugo (Art Major) capped off a wonderful year when he outstayed his harness racing rivals to take out the Group 1 $500,000 Inter

13/12/2024

🇳🇿 “She’s a good filly and we all know how good she is, and she proved that tonight. Barry thought this would be a good race for her and it’s all paid off in the end and she has had a great season" 🫡

She might be called Duchess, but New Zealand harness racing has tonight anointed a new queen of the pacing ranks with a stunning performance from Duchess

13/12/2024

🇳🇿 '"By the name One More Moment, and she's created a moment i'll never forget" 🤩😍🥰

Good luck getting to sleep tonight young fella, you're a G1 winning trainer 👏👊

Twenty-two-year old harness racing trainer, Zev Meredith, went to sleep last night dreaming of a fairytale result in this evening's inaugural $100,000 G1

12/12/2024

🇦🇺 “You can dream about these things happening, but I still can’t believe that I did it." ✨

An auspicious driving debut with a 70-1 longshot for rookie driver Jack Stockton!

Teenage New South Wales driver Jack Stockton has joined an elite club of harness racing drivers who have registered a win at their very first attempt – and

12/12/2024

🇳🇿 “I realised I wasn’t in the right headspace to perform my best on the track, so I took a step back and tried to get in my happy place again and started mucking around with training a few. I am loving it" 🫶

Ahead of his maiden G1 starter in tonight's G1 $100,000 Queen Of Diamonds, young horseman Zev Meredith is already a winner having come out the other side of a challenging period in his life with a renewed sense of purpose and perspective 👏

Alexandra Park is set to host the first G1 for trotting mares in the history of New Zealand harness racing with the inaugural $100,000 Queen Of Diamonds.

12/12/2024

“We had a nightmare of a year. She’d go a good race, then average before going good again. We’re really happy with her this preparation" 😎

In 2022 she became the first filly to win a G1 trot in NZ against her own s*x! Tonight, Con Grazia Love will attempt to become the first trotting mare to win a G1 since Habibti Ivy in 2017 in the inaugural G1 for mares in the $100,000 Queen Of Diamonds 👸💎

Tamahere harness racing trainer Sean McCaffrey reckons he’s got trotting mare Con Grazia Love (Love You) back in a good place, having experienced a horror

12/12/2024

“She’s jumping out of her skin. Her work’s been great and she hasn’t missed an oat.” 😤

A week removed from the inaugural Christian Cullen at Addington, the colours he carried to G1 glory at the 'ribbon of light' back in 1998 get another chance with the Bob Butt trained, Princess Meritaten this evening!

Bruce Stewart with the report 👇

“This race was her aim but she’ll need to improve a lot with that draw and there’s even more good mares in the race this week,” harness racing trainer Bob

12/12/2024

🇺🇸 “My goal has always been to get the best out of each horse I drive for the trainers and owners who put me down. And if the wins come, they come.”

That strategy has led to nearly a thousand victories so far for former bull rider Cam McCown.

Cameron McCown is only 24 harness racing driving victories shy of the 1,000 win plateau. The 36-year-old Columbus, Ohio native says he was surprised when he

10/12/2024

🇳🇿 Bruce Stewart chats to Burnham trainer, Bruce Negus, with a runner by runner preview of his team at this afternoon's Oamaru meeting 👊

Click below to hear audio from Negus himself and how he rates their chances 🎤

Canterbury trainer Bruce Negus takes a team of nine to the Oamaru Harness Racing meeting tomorrow.

10/12/2024

🇦🇺 “I wouldn’t have any idea just how many races I’ve won on trotters, but it would be a good few."

Score one more for Jim O’Sullivan, who was reflective after winning the Veteran Drivers Trot in a 25-1 upset 🏆

Astute Bendigo horseman Jim O'Sullivan doesn't do a lot of race driving these days, but his competitive streak came to the fore in the recent Oxley Feed Mill

10/12/2024

🇳🇿 “I always say to people that I grew up watching harness racing and Trackside rather than the Wiggles" 🤣

Bruce Stewart caught up with George Breckon to find out more about the young man whose doing big his best to pass on his love of the Standardbred to the next generation 😎

The future of harness racing is dependent on initiatives and people to drive racehorses, and one such initiator and driver is twenty five year old George

09/12/2024

🇺🇸 John Berry is back to issue some responses to the questions asked on his most recent prop betting column.

Since Mane Attraction columns became a proponent of Prop Betting for our sport of harness racing, there have been several questions asking how, exactly, the

09/12/2024

🇦🇺 “Last time I spoke to one of the owners he said if Jai can get one more win, he’ll retire. But he went so well for Tori I think they’ve reconsidered and thought why not? He enjoys his racing, he’s going well, and he looks terrific."

Celestial Daybreak has extended the twilight of his career with an impressive victory 💪

Retirement plans are on hold for evergreen 12-year-old harness racing pacer Celestial Daybreak (Dawn Ofa New Day), with his 57th career victory showing

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🇳🇿 🎥 "Flashing Red, what a win!" The 2007 New Zealand Cup was one of the most thrilling finishes, beautifully called by the late Darren Tyquin, with the great Aussie pacer, Flashing Red outstaying them 💪 😤 Who will etch their name into the history books this evening in the 121st edition of the great race? 🤔