All the heats are done and dusted and on Sunday at Ascot Park another three year old harness racing filly will be added to the list of the forty one previous winners of the $60,000 Group Two Macca Lodge/Nevele R Stud Southern Oaks. Southland stables are well represented and Branxholme trainer Nathan Williamson has two
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
North Island harness racing trainer Derek Balle knows a thing or two about winning Group One features at Addington Raceway having won the Dominion Handicap with the marvellous mare, Martina H (Sundon). This Sunday at Addington Raceway, Balle gets a chance to further add to that folklore when his juvenile trotter, Dreams Pat (Father Patrick)
There is a saying in harness racing that bad luck and injuries only happen to the 'good ones'. While we know that not to be the case, the loss of a champion brings with it its own news cycle and seems to resonate more with the general public in the sense of the trials and