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
Almost four years to the day when Oscar Bonavena (Majestic Son) first contested Australasian harness racing’s biggest trotting race, the seven-year-old stallion has come up trumps and won the Dominion in front of an adoring Addington Raceway crowd. The Mark and Nathan Purdon trained trotter has overcome plenty in his life, not the least during
In the world of harness racing, few in Australasia know how to get a trotter peaking for a big day like New Zealand’s leading trainer of square gaiters, Phil Williamson. Much had been made of his two-pronged attack for the $40,000 G3 Worthy Queen with last year's winner, Majestic Man (Majestic Son), looming as the
Current harness racing Trainer Premiership leaders Robert and Jenna Dunn are about to reintroduce some of their stable top liners. A few were at the Rangiora trials yesterday and there are more waiting in the wings. Robert Dunn gave a team rollcall to Harnesslink’s Bruce Stewart this morning. Triple G (Sunshine Beach) 6-4-1-1 $50,918.00 Last
The All Stars harness racing stables are preparing a strong team for spring racing. Harnesslink’s Bruce Stewart talked to Nathan Purdon about some of their top liners as we head to the sharp end of the season. Vessem (Vincent) 3-3-0-0 $63,250.00 Last raced at Invercargill on 23rd April winning the G2 Diamond Creek Farm Two