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With ongoing drug scandals in Australia it's important that everybody understands what can and can't be said on a public forum from a legal perspective. A public forum IS NOT the same as chatting to people at the track. Legally it's akin to...
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Six of the top class pacers missed a race because of the Ballarat issues. If they are being aimed at the Hunter or Victoria Cups via the Bendigo Cup (mobile) or the Shepparton Cup ( stand) where do they ( and others) race next ? Only I'm Corzin...
This is a thread posted with the goal of finding and saving race film or video from before 1980. I know that Kyle Galley and others have been uploading footage onto Youtube...THANKS! But there must be hidden treasures, that could be found. I...
Grand Voyage's sulky One of the all time great Australian trotters Grand Voyage was trained at Huntly ( Bendigo) by Paddy Glasheen. Grand Voyage won 37 races in Victoria, NSW and NZ, including cup races against pacers, in the 1920's. Paddy...
Boort Trotting Club, ancestral home to Bill McKay, The Butterworths, Handos, Robertsons and other trotting greats....is celebrating 125 years of harness racing. "On the 31st March 1934, Walla Walla, driven by Bill McKay won the first match of...
I thought I would start this to recognize Amanda's skill and her travelling ability. I noticed her watching partner Nathan drive in the last at Bendigo on Friday night , after having trained and driven the winner of race 4. Last night at Wagga...
I'm sure that there are many who served in WW1 who can be listed. Let's see how many can be remembered: George Daniel Bendigo Light Horse Gassed and wounded at Gallipoli Returned to resume a career as a school teacher, trained over 100...
A significant part of Bendigo District's trotting history will be at Lord's Raceway this Wednesday. The 1917 New Zealand Trotting Cup, won by Adelaide Direct Adelaide Direct Australia’s First Winner of the New Zealand Trotting Cup The very...
Bendigo Harness Racing Club are conducting a Back To The 70's Bookies Night race meetng in November, and plan to list the top 10 Aussie Harness Horses of that era. Possibles are: Bold David, Tara Meadow, Cocky Raider, Welcome Advice, Monara,...
I thought about totaling the number of winner driven by the 12 Veterans driving at Bendigo on Saturday night, but the stats only go back into the 70s. No good, as Colin Redwood started in 1954, and Neville Welsh drove his first winner at...
You could sing this to the Crowded House song 'Four Seasons In One Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9sem05RHnM It works...try it !!!! How about the very profitable day for the Emma Stewart/Clayton Tonkin Stable. The long haul from...
Looks a cracking night in store for Bendigo Strong "rumor" that Lenny the Shark willl be in the Petstock Bendigo Pacing Cup and the newly elevated Group 1 Aldebaran Park Maori Mile will be a scorcher give the brilliant times at Ballarat and...
Daphne Pocock, wife of legendary trainer Ken Pocock, and mother of pioneering female driver, trainer Roma passed away peacefully in the family home opposite Lord's Raceway in Bendigo on Friday, April 1st. Daphne was involved with Harness Racing...
Has anyone seen an industry notice regarding the early start programming of races in Victoria particularly on Tuesdays? Bendigo's program scheduled for Tuesday May 31 has the first race at 5:07 ! Has anyone at HRV thought about: The...
Bendigo will turn back harness racing’s clock with a driver’s list that could be right out of a Melbourne Showgrounds or early Moonee Valley race book, when the Club stages its Memorial Race Night at Lord’s Raceway Bendigo on Friday night, November...
Does anyone know what organizations that the new CEO of Harness Racing Victoria has led? I checked Linkedin and Google but can't find anything .
Vale Ken Wills The funeral service for Ken Wills will take place at Sacred Heart Cathedral, cnr High and Wattle Streets Bendigo at 10:30 am on Friday, January 13. Well known and respected Bendigo harness racing trainer-driver Ken Wills passed...
Change of trainer information in the form guide would be useful information I think.
Having just watched the first 2 races from Stawell, it appears that the re-cambered Stawell track gives more than the leader or the horse behind the leader a better chance of winning. Observations I hope from Kev ...I guess you are there !
I think I counted them all. Over the next 4 days, at Bendigo tonight, Kilmore on Thursday night and Ballarat on Friday night, the stables of Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin have a Darren Weir-like entry of 29 horses. That's a lot of harness to...
News today on http://www.harnessracingupdate.com/pdf/hru/hru121517.pdf?v2 When the decision comes from Yonker's new director of racing, no less than Cammie Houghton, son of the Immortal Bill, that it's Back to Basics for drivers...to actually...
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