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At the harness racing meeting at Addington tonight, the first of this season's classics for two year old trotters was held and as expected the well performed Muscles Yankee filly High Gait was too smart.... More...

Last nights harness racing meeting at Cambridge was notable for having one of those rarest of happenings, a double deadheat.... More...

Every week David McCarthy of All Stars Racing Stables does a preview of the stables runners at that weeks harness racing meeting.... More...

Mark Purdon probably had at least two harness racing lessons well learned in mind when he bought Northern Velocity at the 2014 Premier Sale for $72,500.... More...

Nathan Purdon is to widen his experience in the harness racing business-and hopes to get more drives while he is doing it with his transfer to Ian Gurney's Brisbane stable in the next month .... More...

Harness racing enthusiasts in Australia have gotten use to the blue with grey stars colours of Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen raiding their feature age group races over the last few years and a team of three left New Zealand today on the latest...

Another quiet week on the harness racing front with just the five winners this week headed by Steven Reid along with Ricky May, John Curtin, Tim Williams and Maurice McKendry.... More...

Well known harness racing trainer Robbie Holmes has been sidelined after a young horse lashed out and kicked him yesterday.... More...

Patrons on track will notice a brand new large Digital Display on course at our next race meeting, this Easter Saturday night, 4 April.... More...

One of the more select clubs in harness racing in New Zealand is the 1000 wins driver club which is about to get another new inductee in Clark Barron.... More...

Harness racing is a worldwide industry which is getting more and more international as time goes on.... More...

If anyone thought that Stent was vulnerable in the $80,000 New Zealand Trotting Championship at last nights harness racing meeting at Addington, (we did) then it took just three minutes and fifteen seconds to well and truly put that idea to bed.......

Harness racing looks to have a budding superstar in the form of this years outstanding three year old, Have Faith In Me.... More...

The old adage in harness racing of their being no such thing as a certainty in racing was reinforced yet again tonight at Addington in Christchurch when Speeding Spur overcame the hot favourite Prince Fearless to win the New Zealand Trotting...

A common comment in the last twelve months amongst harness racing breeders down under was the disappointment with the performance of Somebeachsomewhere since he arrived on the scene.... More...

One of the best fields on the the big night of harness racing at Addington tonight is the New Zealand Trotting Championship which has drawn together probably the best field for an open class trot all season.... More...

Another feature race on the big night of harness racing at Addington on Friday night is the New Zealand Trotting Derby and it has thankfully at least drawn a field with double figure runners.... More...

One of the issues at the moment in harness racing in New Zealand is the size of the fields in some of our classic races.... More...

Last week was a mixed bag but two very wet tracks at both Ascot Park and Methven didn't help with the conditions hampering a lot of runners.... More...

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