Forum: Harnesslink News NZ

Hello all, with the holiday racing now over we are building up to some exciting harness racing in Australia and much important age group racing. More...

Every year many, many Southlanders travel to Addington in Christchurch to enjoy the country's premier harness race - the New Zealand Trotting Cup. However this year several Cup Class harness racing stars will travel south to provide a glamour field...

With $750,000 of races in the next two months, harness racing trainer Mark Purdon wants to be sure there's nothing major to worry about. More...

They were falling out of trees to back the harness racing favourite Smolda in the Sky City Waikato Flying Mile but the hype was misplaced as the $1.80 Mark Purdon trained runner faded in the straight to run fifth having sat parked for the duration...

You might say that this video has nothing to do with harness racing but it is in my opinion a terrific horse video of a very unique horse person. To all horse lovers and horse persons in general this video will astound you. More...

The race within a race could decide tonight's $60,000 Flying Mile at Cambridge. Because if superstar four-year-old Smolda is in front when the red hot harness racing field come out of the first bend the Group Two sprint is his to lose. More...

The Interislander Summer Festival Cromwell Trots will provide an action packed harness racing day at Cromwell Racecourse, South Island, New Zealand on Sunday (6 January). More...

There's been much activity over the Xmas break and still so much harness racing to look forward to. Here's how we see it: More...

It's an unidentified flying object. No it's not, it may be a flying object, but it certainly is identified. It's identified as harness racing's best Sulky - the UFO Sulky, the best bike in the game. The UFO Sulky has already invaded Australia, and...

Roxburgh is the place to be this Friday (4 January) when the Interislander Summer Festival of harness racing takes place at the Roxburgh Racecourse, South Island, New Zealand. More...

So, again, for all the harness racing horses, and for the entire sport of harness racing, start the year of 2013 by doing something different. Something new, something that might help make a difference. More...

Classiesistar in one word was 'astonishing'. The rich PGG/Wrightson NZ Yearling Sales 3YO Final worth $225,000 attracted a stunning field of harness racing pacers on New Year's Eve at Alexandra Park but one shone above the pack that being the Nigel...

Wow what a win! Adore Me confirmed yet again what an exceptional filly she is when winning the $170,000 GR1 Alabar Sires Stakes Final for the harness racing three year old fillies at Alexandra Park in a smart 1.58.8 mile rate over the 2200m mobile....

It's official Stig is one of our greatest ever. With all his injury problems and subsequent multiple retirements to come back and win the 2012 National Trot in record time and in the process beat a true harness racing champion in I Can Doosit is an...

In true Mark Purdon style Art Major colt Isaiah stepped up to the plate with all the professionalism of an older horse and stuck gamely to his task to beat Nota Lada and brother in law Tony Herlihy in the second heat of the Breckon Bloodstock Young...

Harness racing trainer Mark Purdon has I Can Doosit ready to make amends after shock break at Cambridge. When champion trotter I Can Doosit rolls on to Alexandra Park for today's $80,000 National Trot trainer-driver Mark Purdon is going to develop...

The hugely popular Interislander Summer Festival Omakau Trots are on at the Omakau Racecourse (South Island, New Zealand) on Wednesday 2 January. Interislander Summer Festival is a relaxing, fun, family picnic day with top class harness racing, free...

It was back in 1975 when Young Quinn (right), one of the most successful harness racing New Zealand bred pacers, met the star American pacing mare Handle With Care (left) on the Sportsman's Park infield prior to their clash in the U. S. Pacing...

If you had looked down the field of the Group One Turf Bar Trotters Flying Mile (group two) at Cambridge last Monday and named horses likely to pace, the odds are the last on the list would have been I Can Doosit. More...

Harness racing trainer Sean McCaffrey can see a window of opportunity and he hopes stable star Sovereignty can trot right through it. Sovereignty was the forgotten trotter of our open class elite after a hapless New Zealand Cup Week almost ruined...