Successful vendors Mark and Debbie Smith of Shard Farm in Southland are presenting another strong draft of sixteen potential harness racing champions at this month’s NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales in Christchurch. The SBSR breeders have a mixture of stock from their own mares p3lus some quality outside yearlings, led by a full brother to multiple
Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. First Australian bred millionaire trotter The Orlando Vici gelding Just Believe achieved yet another moment of glory in a brilliant career when he became the first Australian bred trotter
When Chris and Tina Barlow from Highfields Bloodstock chose Woodlands Stud's classy son of Somebeachsomewhere, Downbytheseaside, as a consort for their super-producing Presidential Ball mare Destiny, it was not without an element of risk. However the couple from Albany had some method to their madness, and also knew there was a good chance of breeding
Longtime harness racing owner Jamie Kirk has always wanted to try his hand at training, and a decision to take the plunge last season has brought quick results. Kirk’s career strike rate for placings is running at better than 50 percent, and he recently recorded his fourth winner from fewer than 30 starts. “I was
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