Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan continued their fantastic start to the 2024 feature harness racing season with a stable quinella in the $50,000 IRT Young Guns 2YO Trotters Final at Alexandra Park this evening. Father Patrick gelding, Higher Power, came out victorious among a boutique field of six talented juvenile trotters, displaying some of the
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
Once the barrier draws were allocated, Coastal Babe (Downbytheseaside) was going to be hard to beat in tonight’s (Feb. 16) NZB Standardbred Harness Million for Three Year Old harness racing fillies. Regular pilot Matthew White took the three year old straight to the top from barrier two and she was never pressured by any of
Harness racing’s hottest new rivalry started way before punters had even heard of pacers Cold Chisel (Always B Miki) and Chase A Dream (Captaintreacherous). The pair clash again in the $200,000 NZB Standardbred Harness Million at Alexandra Park tonight, the richest race on the night headlined by the sales series horses and the ideal lead-in
Matthew Peden and the bookies at the NZ TAB would have been rubbing their hands together as the mobile pulled away in the first Group Race feature on New Zealand harness racing’s biggest day. The punters had been burned early on IRT New Zealand Cup Day at Addington with the likes of Cody Banner and