Every spring, harness racing trainers converse, hope, and dream about their prospective 2-year-olds in training much in the same way breeders ponder about their stallion’s first crop of youngsters. What follows is an examination of the stallions who are first crop sires with statistics garnered from the US Trotting Association and some of the mares they were bred
Fresh-up harness racing performances don't get much more impressive than that of the David and Stacey White trained trotter, Bet N Win (What The Hill) who accounted for a tidy field of Intermediate-grade performers in last night's $40,000 NZ Sires Stakes Aged Trotters Classic at Addington Raceway. The four-year-old son of What The Hill had
A decision to buy a trotting mare ten years ago continues to pay dividends for former Southland harness racing trainer Tony Barron and Southland dairy farmer Gordon McKenzie. After Queen Kenny (Monarchy) ran second at Wyndham on debut in February 2014 for Oamaru trainer Phil Williamson, Barron and McKenzie were able to purchase the royally
Last season's champion New Zealand harness racing juvenile trotting filly, Empire City (Volstead), announced her arrival back as a sophomore with an emphatic fresh-up victory tonight at Addington Raceway in the IRT Sires Stakes 3YO Trotters Prelude. Having been unsighted in public since winning the Group One Ace Of Hearts on the same track in
With a career record of 17 wins from 17 starts, Millwood Nike (Captaintreacherous) has been named Harness Racing New Zealand's Horse of the Year. In 2023 the mare had the perfect record of nine from nine, winning her connections $362,091. Earlier she had got the nod as Pacer of the Year, eclipsing the likes of