Forum: Harnesslink News NZ

It has been very hard lately to take the smile off the faces of Peter O'Rourke and David Shammall as the sires associated with their harness racing venture Stallions Australasia have been having such a golden run in North America.... More...

The 2014-15 season will see an increase in stakes of $700,000 or 10% on the previous season.... More...

What a great way to start the new harness racing season at Addington on Friday night. (August 8th) ... More...

Master Glide, the full brother to Passionate Glide 3,1:52.2 ($2,060,447), has been sold by Brittany Farms to Max Grant and Arcadia Harness Racing Group, with Paul Davies acting as agent for the buyers.... More...

The Department of Internal Affairs has welcomed a decision by the Gambling Commission which has found that a Blenheim based gaming machine society, Bluegrass Holdings Limited, obtained its licence to operate pokie machines by deception and that a...

Hambo Day at The Meadowlands, New Jersey on Saturday (August 2) proved a red-letter day for former USA trotting standout Muscle Hill, as the sire of the winner of both the $1,006,125 Hambletonian in Trixton and the $352,050 Merrie Annabelle for...

The battle for the title for leading sire of 4 year olds for the 2013/2014 harness racing season in New Zealand was a one horse affair with Bettors Delight finishing just under a million dollars in front.... More...

Duane Marfisi has not been that long in New Zealand and he is already off to Australia. He left All Stars on Thursday to look after FOLLOW THE STARS and LINDA LOVEGRACE who went earlier in the day and it is a measure of the regard in which he is...

The recently established harness racing team of Ken Barron and Blair Orange served notice today (Sunday 3rd August) at the Kurow Trotting Clubs meeting at Oamaru of what a powerful force they will be this season when they combined to win two races...

The battle for the title of leading 3 year old sire in New Zealand went on for most of the harness racing season between Mach Three, Bettor's Delight and Art Major.... More...

Harness racing kicked off for the new season at Alexandra Park tonight (August 1st) and one of the highlights of the first race meeting of the new season was the performance of the Mach Three mare, Pricillas Girl.... More...

Tonight (August 1st) may have been the first night of the new harness racing season in New Zealand but it was one of the established brigade who was handing out lessons at Alexandra Park tonight.... More...

General Admission and Lindauer Lawn tickets are on sale from today, Friday 1 August, for Christchurch Casino New Zealand Trotting Cup Day and Show Day Races at Addington, part of New Zealand Cup and Show Week. ... More...

A victory by Lord Baltimore has helped talented harness racing horsewoman Michelle Neilson snare a last gasp win in the McMillan Equine Feeds NZ Junior Drivers Championship at Addington.... More...

The successful Met Multiplier introduced by the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club (The Met) in August 2012 has a current honour’s board showing a total of 41 winners and, in what is good news for owners and trainers, will continue in the...

As the harness racing season ends on the 31st of July in New Zealand, Harnesslink thought it was an appropriate time to review how all the leading sires and other sires on the improve performed in each age bracket.... More...

The siring fortunes of the son of Art Major, Major In Art are following those of many sires before him in the harness racing industry.... More...

It never takes long in harness racing for a horse to be forgotten when its not racing every week.... More...

Last week was possibly the worst ever for the ring-around with just the one winner.... More...

Champion juvenile Follow The Stars has had to bow to stablemate Linda Lovegrace in their final public outing before heading to Australia for the Breeders Crown.... More...