Forum: Harnesslink News NZ

Smoke N Santanna, untroubled to justify his $1.70 favouritism in the C1 French Bakery Mobile Pace at Addington on Friday, May 23, ended his two-year-old racing on a high.... More...

The Graham and Paul Court trained two-year-old Brilliant Strike credited Alabar’s Shadow Play with his first siring success when winning impressively at Winton yesterday.... More...

Everyone in the harness racing industry has an opinion on the pros and cons of most runners contesting the Harness Jewels races at Cambridge this weekend so we here at Harnesslink thought we would put our two cents worth into the mix.... More...

Champion harness racing driver David Butcher is due to get his cast off in six weeks time, but says he is still months away from his racetrack return.... More...

The Cran Dalgety trained Katy Perry is no longer the ‘Dark Horse’ among the two-year-old fillies.... More...

One of the larger than life personalities in harness racing in New Zealand, Bill Grice passed away recently in Invercargill.... More...

The well-known and respected Winton harness racing trainer / driver Alan Scobie passed away yesterday in Invercargill.... More...

The fields are out for the 2014 Harness Jewels to be run at Cambridge on May 31st and the barrier draws look to have added plenty of spice to the $1.2 million dollar raceday.... More...

You have to go back to the 1980s to find when the "Midfrew" tag first surfaced in the harness racing scene in New Zealand. The result of a partnership between breeding legend, Bob McArdle and businessman Bevan Smith, it had some successes but...

Geoff and Jude Knight continued their great association with claiming races when trifectering the Claimers’ Championship Series mobile at Forbury Park last night.... More...

The Harness Jewels has received the cold shoulder from all but one of the nine Australian invitees, but HRNZ CEO Edward Rennell is confident that will change next season.... More...

Last week was an adequate one for the ring-around with just, Blair Orange, Nathan Williamson, and yours truly selecting winners.... More...

With the Harness Jewels nearly upon us, the top twenty in each division are listed as nominations on the Harness Racing New Zealand website. It is from these nominations that the final fields will be selected. We thought an evaluation of the sires...

The market for the 2YO Diamond division of the Harness Jewels should be a lot clearer after Friday night.... More...

Art Official's first crop of two year olds in the Southern Hemisphere has had a noticeable lack of runners in both Australia and New Zealand, especially when you compare their performance with that of his first crop in North America which raced as...

More than 50 prominent breeders and industry officials from around the country attended this year’s Annual Breeders’ Conference which was held at the Hornby Workingmens Club in Christchurch on May 16.... More...

Exciting comeback pacer Raging Bull may be having his first start for some 17 months at Addington on Friday night, but his new trainer John Parsons is confident that he can win, despite the fact that he has had no trials or workouts in preparation...

1:51 miler Pure Power will arrive back in New Zealand tomorrow (Tuesday), 17 months after joining Nicole Molander’s New South Wales barn.... More...

Champion trainer Mark Purdon says there is "no basis'' for the constant rumour through the harness racing world that he and Natalie (Rasmussen) have sold their property in Rolleston and will shift north to Pukekohe and is finding the persistent...

Fast tempo harness racing was the theme of the day at Oamaru yesterday and because of it three track records were broken.... More...