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Tuesday, February 28 2017

Last Saturday night’s ultra-impressive New South Wales Oaks winner, Partyon, is jumping out of her skin, and looks poised to win this Friday’s Group One $125,000 Pascoes The Jewellers Northern Oaks for the 3YO pacing fillies at Alexandra Park.

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Monday, February 27 2017

Eight years is a long time in between drinks, just ask Graeme Ward.

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Monday, February 27 2017

Todd Macfarlane jokingly hopes there’s an airport bomb scare when Tony Herlihy (MNZM) returns from the United States this week.

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Sunday, February 26 2017

Zoey's Gift confirmed her spot in the group two New Zealand Trotting Oaks at Addington on 31 March with a New Zealand record winning performance at Winton on Saturday.

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Sunday, February 26 2017

Exciting colt Vincent was due that one.

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Sunday, February 26 2017

Star Western Australian pacer Chicago Bull could lose an eye. 

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Sunday, February 26 2017

Lennytheshark confirmed the new reality of the pacing world with his brave Miracle Mile win.

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Saturday, February 25 2017

It might have been a lowly $2,000 non-tote trot but the Haras Des Trotteurs 2yo Mobile is one race Josh Dickie won't forget in a hurry.

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Friday, February 24 2017

If Lazarus is to cap one of the great summers in New Zealand harness racing history he is going to have to do it the hard way.

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Friday, February 24 2017

Taffy Ltd, a Winton (Southland) breeding entity, was the leading vendor by average with more than one lot at the premier yearling sale in Christchurch this week. Taffy Ltd began offering at the sale two years ago.

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Thursday, February 23 2017

This Miracle Mile and the support card that goes with it shapes as one of the best we have seen.

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Wednesday, February 22 2017

Mossdale Conner, winner of the group one Taylor Mile and 12 other races in New Zealand, has been sold to the United States and leaves NZ this week.

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Wednesday, February 22 2017

Art Major went within a whisker of usurping super sire, Bettor’s Delight on the second day of selling at the New Zealand Premier Yearling Sales in Christchurch yesterday.

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Tuesday, February 21 2017

Two lots, one after the other, went a long way to holding the head of yesterday’s first day of selling in Christchurch, at the New Zealand Premier Yearling Sales, above the water.

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Tuesday, February 21 2017

The opportunity to work with some of the world’s best trotting stallions and mares and to leave New Zealand’s handicapping system well behind him are the reasons Sean McCaffrey will leave Cambridge in the middle of next month (March).

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Monday, February 20 2017

HOW much gate speed does Vincent have?

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Monday, February 20 2017

Our Sky Major (formerly Sky Major) has won his first race in Canada – just a couple of months after he and trainer Duane Marfisi arrived in back in his homeland of Canada.

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Monday, February 20 2017

Kim Butt wouldn’t mind if they held races at Orari every week.

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Monday, February 20 2017

Personable 20-year-old Genevieve Crawford became the toast of Tuapeka and beyond when she made her 34th race day drive her first winning one, on the grass at Gore on Sunday.

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Monday, February 20 2017

Jo Baynes sees herself predominantly as a pre-trainer and regards the win of Envious at Gore on Sunday, her first as a trainer, as a one-off

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Monday, February 20 2017

Delestic made good in the Hokonui Trot on the grass at Gore on Sunday but his trainer and driver Nathan Williamson said it has taken a bit of work.

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Sunday, February 19 2017

Mark Purdon won two of the three NSW Derby heats, but still emerged from the qualifiers scratching his head.

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Sunday, February 19 2017

In Sydney - Pacing king Lazarus will have to defy the record books in the toughest test of his stellar season after drawing wide in the A$750,000 Miracle Mile.

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Sunday, February 19 2017

Star Kiwi filly Parrtyon may not even start favourite in the NSW Oaks.

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Friday, February 17 2017

If you’re buying a horse at next week’s yearling sales, and you don’t like its name, then there’s good news coming your way.

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Friday, February 17 2017

If Ken Spicer doesn’t have a good week selling horses he has nobody to blame but himself.

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Wednesday, February 15 2017

Logan Hollis and Shane Robertson work a team of 15 at Pukekohe and two of their best will line up at Cambridge Raceway on Thursday.

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Wednesday, February 15 2017

There’s more than a name change in store for Harness Racing Waikato.

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Wednesday, February 15 2017

The win of Waihemo Art at Waikouaiti on Tuesday belonged to 16-year-old Alana Cameron.

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Tuesday, February 14 2017

What’s in a name? For the 3-year-old pacer Whittaker third time lucky.

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Monday, February 13 2017

DAVID Aiken’s chances of having two Miracle Mile runners have been dealt a significant boost.

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Monday, February 13 2017

The trotter Sarah Palin broke a losing streak of 72 races when she was successful at Waikouaiti on Sunday.

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Monday, February 13 2017

The pacer that won the 2014 Victoria Derby and ran third in Northern Derby that same year, is well and truly back on the road to recovery under new trainer/driver Brent Mangos.

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Monday, February 13 2017

Shane Tritton thinks this Chariots Of Fire will linger in his mind as the one that got away.

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Sunday, February 12 2017

Pacing champ Lazarus can go faster -- and he might have to.

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Saturday, February 11 2017

A fortnight after her nailingher 400th training success at Cambridge Raceway, Nicky Chilcott drove her 600th career winner at Alexandra Park Friday.

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Saturday, February 11 2017

Mark Jones is in the final stages of making a change that could take his training career to a whole new level.

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Thursday, February 09 2017

About 40 horsemen and women attended a ‘handicapping meeting’ at Franklin Park in Pukekohe last night (Tuesday), but it wasn’t until the Auckland Trotting Club president Bruce Carter spoke, that the meeting came alive.

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Wednesday, February 08 2017

FRESH from his stunning Hunter Cup-winning drive on Bling It On, Luke McCarthy has snared the drive on Lets Chase The Dream in Saturday night’s $200,000 Group 1 Chariots Of Fire (1609m) at Menangle.

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Wednesday, February 01 2017

Lazarus might be the best pacer in the world but he won't be asked to prove it.

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