Tommy Hill drove his first winner at Melton last night with Warminster. The first graduate of the Melton arm of the Bendigo Harness Training Centre
Congrats to Ararat driver Michael Bellman for a metro double at Melton tonight
Somebody must have expected it as the running double was massively under at only $38
http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...ic#MXM23021808
per un PUGNO di DOLLARI
Tommy Hill drove his first winner at Melton last night with Warminster. The first graduate of the Melton arm of the Bendigo Harness Training Centre
next time I need to get one going "from Scratch" better give young Stacey a call,
http://www.harnesslink.com/Australia...n-at-huge-odds
fair dinkum....the younger generation are pretty good at giving themselves a wrap!
I wouldn't place much credibility in the reporting when the journo calls the horse a galloper!
I thought it must have been a 2yr old or an unraced horse before I read the article
Last edited by Richard prior; 03-08-2018 at 10:23 PM.
Private Jujon first win at start 76 at Redcliffe today
Great stuff for the owners
UP AND RUNNING
The Trotting Annals of Bendigo and Environs, by the amazing John Peck, purchased by the Bendigo Library, are up and running.
Over 300 pages of searchable PDF, 15,500 or more race results from 1855 till 1954, 200 photos and great articles about the origins of both the Bendigo Jockey Club ( where the first trots were held) and the Sandhurst Trotting Club.
The research section of the Bendigo Library, has 2 computers dedicated to geneology. The Trottting Annals are on both of these computers. The search is easy to use, and the Research Staff are already familiar with the resource and ready to assist. So you can find anyone who raced, trained or owned horses around Bendigo during and after the gold-rush, the horses and the results.
It's an amazing resource, and another really good reason to come to Bendigo. The Library is open till 6 on weekdays, and till 3PM on Saturdays. They have great coffee too !
Last edited by Adaptor; 03-22-2018 at 05:21 PM.
I just said to him 'what have you done'
Got to love this from the Melton APG fillies heats. From Blake Redden, thetrots.com.au
There are a number of moments a trainer will never forget as their career unfolds and we saw one of those at Tabcorp Park Melton on Saturday night.
Kate Hargreaves and Alex Ashwood produced the lightly raced filly Ideally Say Yes to take out a heat of the rich Australian Pacing Gold series in what was a tough win from the breeze.
It wasn't Hargreaves first win at Victorian HQ but it will be just as memorable as claiming the first race on Del-Re National A. G. Hunter Cup night last year.
The filly arrived in her heat at just her fourth start but now she heads to Sydney to take on the best fillies available in the $350,000 Group 1 final on April 28.
"We went up to the yearling sales to buy a horse and we went through the process and picked out a few we liked and we had planned on syndicating the one we bought but it didn't work out and all of the horses we had our eye on went for too much money," Hargreaves said.
"I was ready to head home, a bit disappointed we hadn't been able to purchase anything and I heard in the sale ring a filly went for $8000 and I looked around to see where Alex (Ashwood, partner) was so we could leave and he had bid on this filly.
"He thought he had brought a colt at the time but it ended up being this girl and we got her home and she didn't have the best legs and I just said to him 'what have you done'.
"We were really lucky that a few people like Shannon and Paul Nixon were willing to buy in to help us out and a few of my friends from work purchased their first share in a horse, so it's pretty exciting for everyone."
All the best to Kate and Alex with their trip to Sydney.