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
Mickie Mantle (Custard The Dragon) won back-to-back major West Coast harness racing events in the $100,000 BC-bred Stake Robert Murphy Memorial Final on Friday (Nov. 24) at Fraser Downs. Kelly Hoerdt dropped the gelding in the three-hole as Rum N Raisings (John Abbott) blitzed out a :26 first quarter. The top three remained in position