#American Ideal

Young Winton harness racing horsewomen Chelsea Faithful has a lot of strings to her bow. She successfully trains a small team, works for the busiest stable in the province, is breeding from two mares, is preparing two yearlings for the upcoming sales and is photographing yearlings for a handful of clients. "I was born into it. Mum tried to get me…

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard's Horse & Hound. Cups double to Major Meister Major Meister, a son of the American sire Art Major, has been the star of the Country Cups racing in Victoria. He won the $100000…

The 2023 harness racing season might still be in its infancy, but Prebbleton horseman John McDermott and his bonny mare Supreme Gem (Christian Cullen) have made every post a winning one thus far. In the span of eight days, three daughters of Supreme Gem have chalked up race wins at South Island meetings, giving McDermott and his wife Christine…

After a tight battle, Branxholme harness racing trainer Nathan Williamson is happy to share the Southland Trainers Premiership with good mate Brett Gray. At Gore today both were sitting on thirty five wins and Gray was the first on the board when Cool Phelan (Pegasus Spur) won the Jaccka Lodge Trot. However, in race eleven Williamson produced hot…

The team behind B D Joe (Roll With Joe) can dare to dream of winning New Zealand's greatest race after their star pacer's brilliant harness racing win in the $50000 Group Two NZB Airfreight Ashburton Flying Stakes (2400m). The NZB Standardbred graduate showed all of the speed, power and poise required to win a New Zealand Cup when powering to…

Hightstown, NJ - Health issues grounded Soaring Now (JK Endofanera) during his 2-year-old harness racing season, but the colt is flying high again as he heads to Saturday's $300000 Carl Milstein Memorial Invitational for 3-year-old pacers at MGM Northfield Park. Soaring Now heads to the Milstein off back-to-back victories in the Indiana Sire…

Harness racing is returning to Connell Park Raceway in Woodstock, New Brunswick this Friday evening (Aug. 5) as part of the Old Home Week festivities in the picturesque region. Friday night's program is stacked with some great races, including the New Brunswick Breeders stakes for two-year-old fillies and colts & geldings, an Open Trot and the…

CHESTER, PA - Harness racing driver Andrew McCarthy picked up his 3000 North American driving victory at a soggy Harrah's Philadelphia Saturday afternoon, in his last drive before heading to northern New Jersey for nighttime activities. The 36-year-old, who has driven the winners of $61.5M, scored four times on the windswept Saturday card,…

It's the second Tuesday in November and that means it's New Zealand Trotting Cup day at Addington. But with no such restrictions, it's time to glam up, try to pick a winner and keep safe under the Christchurch sun on one of the best days of Christchurch's social calendar. Tuesday's big race is arguably the most open field in the last decade, so…

Now we get the NZ Cup we all deserve. The Cup we sometimes felt like we would never get again. Bloody 2020 and 2021 could do that to you. Sap your strength. Make you forget how good felt. The things we all lost, even temporarily during Covid, were way more important than just some harness racing, some race day. But if you love harness racing, or…

Leading Pacing Sire: Bettor's Delight | 9 winners Leading Pacing Broodmare Sire: American Ideal & Christian Cullen | 3 winners Leading Trotting Sire: Majestic Son & Love You | 3 winners Leading Trotting Broodmare Sire: Sundon | 4 winners I'm dead set running out of things to say when it comes to Bettor's Delight! Last week we discussed how'the…

Captain Cowgirl looks to extend her three-race win streak in Saturday night's (Oct. 15) $100000 Courageous Lady, a by-invitation-only Grand Circuit event for 3-year-old harness racing filly pacers, at MGM Northfield Park. This year's Courageous Lady is the 13th race on a 15-race program. A $20000 guaranteed 20-cent Super High Five is offered on the…

After a good yarn with Mark Jones early morning yesterday, I come away thinking I must put a few dollars on some of his runners for tonight's (Oct. 6) harness racing action at Addington Raceway. The fact I'm sitting here late on a Thursday night writing and not bothering to watch the last leg of pick six and the quaddie tells the story! Hopefully,…

Over the past months there is not too much we don't know about Bulldog Hanover (Shadow Play). Aside from being the fastest harness racing Standardbred of all time, he is putting his 11-race winning streak on the line this Sunday (Oct. 9) in the $153000 Allerage Farms Open Pace at Lexington, Kentucky's Red Mile. The race is generously sponsored by…

Over the past months there is not too much we don't know about Bulldog Hanover (Shadow Play). Aside from being the fastest harness racing Standardbred of all time, he is putting his 11-race winning streak on the line this Sunday in the $153000 Allerage Farms Open Pace at Lexington, Kentucky's Red Mile. The race is generously sponsored by Jeff &…

Canterbury harness racing heads to Addington tomorrow night (Oct 6.) and while some of the stars on the track will be racing at Methven later in the week, the meeting has attracted some firepower of its own. Heats of the Sires Stakes two-year-old series for the boys and the girls are to be contested, and so too another heat of the Nevele R Fillies…

Sunday afternoon Harness Racing at Phar Lap Raceway was given a little extra spice with the injection of the Spring Rewards series for horses that battle round in the rating system. Races seven through ten were run for an upgraded stake of $20000 and were met with a fantastic response. Full fields and even betting races are always a hit with the…

North Island harness racing heads to Cambridge tomorrow night (Sep 29.) with an action-packed 10-race card to go with a non-tote two-year-old trot. Race six sees a cracking field of nine juveniles for the first North Island heat of the Woodlands Stud Sires Stakes Series for colts and geldings. The unbeaten Merlin (Art Major) headlines a quality…

Copy That's (American Ideal) tilt at Melton success came up trumps in harness racing's TAB Gammalite Free For All on a night when Pryde's EasiFeed Victoria Cup intrigue only intensified. Trainer Ray Green received reward for taking the New Zealand Cup champ across the Tasman on Saturday night, with Copy That having stalked Bondi Lockdown and…

WILKES-BARRE, PA - It was a wet Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 30) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, but you'll hear no complaints from Stonebridge Karis (Sweet Lou) after he lowered his record over four seconds to 1:51 in winning one of the three $13000 pacing features. Jim Pantaleano pointed the three-year-old gelding frontward and the pair were never…

If you're bad at your job, you get demoted, right? Unless you're Vanderbilt, in which case you get a media rights check for about $80 million. As the old American Express ad said, "Membership has its privileges." And being a member of the SEC has provided the Commodores with more privileges than they've earned. I don't mean to pick on Vandy, which…

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE - A field of 22 of the finest half-mile harness racing pacers from Canada and the U.S. will contest three trials of the 63 Gold Cup and Saucer, presented by Atlantic Lottery commencing Saturday night (Aug. 13) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The $100000 Gold Cup and Saucer final will be held…