Victorian harness racing young gun Ryan Sanderson isn’t daunted that he’s regarded a longshot at his international harness racing debut in the Prix Des Rencontres Internationales at Vincennes, France, on Saturday morning (Dec 2, Australian time). Twenty-year-old Sanderson, who has driven 287 winners in his career, was selected to represent Australia in the under-26 event,
Almost four years to the day when Oscar Bonavena (Majestic Son) first contested Australasian harness racing’s biggest trotting race, the seven-year-old stallion has come up trumps and won the Dominion in front of an adoring Addington Raceway crowd. The Mark and Nathan Purdon trained trotter has overcome plenty in his life, not the least during
Is Bolt For Brilliance (Muscle Hill) ready for harness racing’s biggest trotting challenge? This is the question on punters minds leading into the Group One Renwick Farms Dominion Handicap tomorrow. Two weeks ago after giving the small field a thirty metre head start on a testing track, the six year old gelding ran third, three
Wyndham harness racing trainer Craig Ferguson’s whale of a season continued last night at Addington when he notched up a double. Grey trotter Smokin Bandar (Monkey Bones) went to the lead early in the Hydroflow Trot and stayed in front, winning by one and a half lengths. “I was a bit worried about the track.
“He felt awesome and back on track, put it that way,” Ben Hope said after Muscle Mountain (Muscle Hill) won the $40,000 Group Three What The Hill Ashburton Trotters Sprint today (Oct. 23). In doing so the giant trotter became the first horse to win the trotting classic three times. Dual winners over the years