It was a coming of age yesterday for the Ashburton harness racing duo of Brent and Tim White and their stable driver Sarah O’Reilly when they all won their first Group One race. “It’s mind blowing for us and just continues a great year we’ve had. It’s not easy every day, but days like today
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
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Named after the famous Argentinian boxer, Oscar Bonavena (Majestic Son) delivered a harness racing knockout in today’s Green Mile for trotters at Methven. Co-trainer and driver Mark Purdon took him straight to the lead. He relished being the pacemaker and was travelling kindly a long way from home. Once in the straight he trotted down