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Harness racing returns to Addington on Friday night with the 2014 Group Three New Brighton Cup and the time honoured classic has drawn a lovely field of high class pacers.... More...

Harness racing trainers Graham and Paul Court are not about to lose any sleep over claims their three-time New Zealand Trotting Cup winner is "a way overrated Kiwi horse".... More...

With last week’s UET Trotting Masters final bringing to a climax the European elite aged trotting season, and with no UET ranked races this past week, the focus shifts to the €400,000 Grand Prix de l’UET or the European Derby, which...

Last week was on the up for our harness racing pundits with Sam Ottley, Tony Herlihy, John Dickie, John Curtin, Scott Phelan and Blair Orange nailing winners why five other selections ran a place but just missed the winners circle.... More...

Last week at the harness racing meeting at Invercargill, Jetsdream was sent out a dominating favourite on the back of a couple of very impressive trials prior to his debut run.... More...

Woodend trainer-driver David Butt is dismayed as to how his star trotting mare Habibti has been given a 20 metre handicap – 10 metres behind Clover Don and Sheemon who beat her off even terms last start - in Sunday’s D G Jones Banks...

Another of the early season harness racing features comes up for decision at Addington on Friday night when the 2014 edition of the Group Three $25,000 New Brighton Cup is run.... More...

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Harness racing returns to Cambridge on Thursday night (September 25th) with the running of the 2014 Te Awamutu Cup over 2700 meters from a stand.... More...

NZ Trotter of the Year Master Lavros is set to have another trial this week for Overport Lodge trainer Mark Jones.... More...

The first of this years $25,000 Sires Stakes heats comes up for decision on Thursday night at the Harness Racing Waikato's meeting at Cambridge and it is truly a wide open race.... More...

Harness racing stud brochures are littered with claims by stallion promoters that their stallion is the best bred or the fastest son of a particular sire and a lot of the time you have to take the claims with a grain of salt.... More...

The harness racing trials at Addington today (September 22nd) saw more of the All Star team step out prior to starting new campaigns and judging by their performances, the all conquering barn is in for another bumper season.... More...

The New Zealand Sires Stakes Board together, with The Met at Addington, will be staging a new race on Show Day, Friday 14 November solely catering for 4 year old and over pacing mares.... More...

The first race on the program at Methven today was blessed with three really smart 3 year olds and as expected they dominated the finish.... More...

Young harness racing trainer Abbey Holdaway notched her second career win at Alexandra Park last night and but for a stroke of luck she may have been lost to the industry.... More...

Tony Cameron deserves a break in life.... More...

Andrew and Lyn Neal won their second Spring Cup at Alexandra Park last night with a pacer they rate equal in ability to their 2000 Auckland Cup winner, Flight South.... More...

Well known harness racing owner and breeder Charlie Blackwell has never been short of a nice horse around him and in Voluntad 1:56.4 ($28,766) he has another classy racehorse.... More...

If Thursday’s 3YO resumption (September 18) is any guide, Art Union may have found the extra length or two required to ruffle the feathers of the major 3YO NZ Sires Stakes contenders.... More...