Easter Saturday sees a return of Premiere harness racing at Addington Raceway on Saturday afternoon with the Group One $110,000 Fred Shaw Memorial New Zealand Trotting Championships headlining a strong 11 race programme. The Greg & Nina Hope trained superstar, Muscle Mountain (Muscle Hill), is looking to etch his name in the record books and
The G1 $1110,000 Invercargill Cup appears to be attracting a top field Republican Party (Bettor’s Delight), Beach Ball (Somebeachsomewhere), Self Assured (Bettor’s Delight) Mossdale Ben (A Rocknroll Dance) and defending champion Krug (Bettor’s Delight) likely to head south for the twilight harness meeting at Ascot Park on Friday 22nd December. Locally Pembrook Playboy (Bettor’s Delight)
The field is set for the 120th edition of the IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup with the live barrier draw conducted at Addington Raceway this morning. Connections of the runners were present and called to select their barrier randomly, with always some big winners and others having their task made that much more difficult with
The win by Mossdale Ben (A Rocknroll Dance) in the Group Three Allied Security Maurice Holmes Vase last night at Addington was the fiftieth win for the harness racing training partnership of Greg and Nina Hope and owners Archie and Margaret Affleck. MOSSDALE BEN REPLAY The stable has been training for the Afflecks for
Mossdale Ben (A Rocknroll Dance) and driver Ben Hope combined their talent to win today’s (Aug. 20) $20,000 Waitaki Hotel Kurow Cup at the Oamaru harness racing meeting. Starting off the 20 metre mark, Hope settled in the single file line early before getting into the outside running line. He proved to be too strong