With just his third career victory since going out on his own accord, harness racing trainer Tate Hopkins fulfilled a lifelong dream of training a Group One winner with the success of Cyclone Jordy (Art Major) in the $110,000 Breckon Farms Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes tonight at Alexandra Park. The young man from Taupaki
Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America brought to you by Yabby Dam Farms & Racing! Yabby Dam Racing, principal Pat Driscoll’s dream to breed and race world class trotters was born after seeing a billboard on the Champs Elysees in Paris advertising the famous trotting
(Reuters) -Australia's ANZ Group said on Monday its first-quarter group revenue was in line with the quarterly average of first-half fiscal 2023 revenue, driven by its institutional division's markets business, lifting shares to their highest in 22 months. Surging demand for its institutional banking services pushed Australia's fourth-biggest lender to post a record annual profit last year, as it benefited from a payments platform that processes big cross-border transactions. "The institutional division's markets business had a good start to the year with revenues a little better than the first-half FY23 average of A$575 million ($374.73 million)," the company said in a statement on Monday.
Established by the late Wayne Francis in the mid 1980ʻs, and synonymous with the famed “Franco” name, Spreydon Lodge has been selling select yearlings through New Zealandʻs national standardbred yearling sale for over two decades. The renowned racing and breeding establishment has enjoyed considerable success in recent years with it consistently amongst the top consignors
A pair of leading lights in the NSW harness racing breeding industry, Joanne Andersen and Dyanna Thommeny, will be represented for the first time at a Queensland yearling sale with a single entry in the Australian Pacing Gold sale at Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28. Andersen, a former president and life member of Harness