Forum: Harnesslink News NZ

Six months after suffering cardiac arrest during a race, harness racing driver Ricky May and his saviour Ellie Barron, reunited for the first time in person at the Ashburton workouts yesterday. See the story from Matt Hall-Smith on One News last...

Rookie trainer Maria Murrell comes from a thoroughbred racing and equestrian background but today at Winton she trained her first Standardbred winner when Bardot won a fillies and mares race.... More...

Awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to harness racing in 2012, respected breeder, owner and administrator Jim Wakefield has died in Christchurch, aged 87 .... More...

By Dave Di Somma, Harness News desk ... More...

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It has been a bleak Inter Dominion for the Aussies, but our Australian correspondent Adam Hamilton gives us his thoughts on Grand Final night.... More...

By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk ... More...

Sensation for Down Under harness racing as their pacers get the trifecta in the $172,850 Dorothy Houghton Mares Open.... More...

More records tumbled as the All Stars team got serious at the Franklin Cup meeting on Friday.... More...

Ten months after winning the group one Breeders Crown for two-year-old colts and geldings trotters at Melton, Ultimate Stride extended his winning picket line to five with a classy return to racing at Invercargill on Saturday.... More...

Former Kiwi champion Changeover, who stands at Burwood Stud in Queensland, sired important winners in both hemispheres last week.... More...

Bidding on the seven harness racing Lots in the latest gavelhouse.com Standardbred auction will end from 7pm (NZ) tonight, starting with Lot 1. ... More...

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every Friday brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound... More...

Canterbury trainer Nigel McGrath had it all. A successful career, beautiful wife, lovely family, money, and lots of friends. Unfortunately he was also a cheat. MARTIN VAN BEYNEN reports.... More...

By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk ... More...

Harness Racing New Zealand Interim Chief Executive Phil Holden is urging everyone in the industry to “keep calm” in the wake of the latest Alert Level 2 and 3.... More...

Art Major gelding Major Punter lived up to his breeding when he won on debut at Ascot Park yesterday, and he had to be tough to do it.... More...

Dual Group 1 winner Ultimate Stride was crowned Otago Horse Of The Year for the 2019-20 at Waikouaiti on Friday night.... More...

McWicked (p,2,1:52f; 3,1:47.3f,1:46.2 $5,103,271). 2018 Horse of the Year and the richest pacing stallion in harness racing history, will stand his initial Southern Hemisphere season at the renowned horse haven Cobbitty Equine Farm.... More...

This Saturday, 1 August 2020, the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) will become TAB New Zealand (TAB NZ).... More...