#Bolt For Brilliance

Here are five horses to back for the first Group 1 Grand Prix harness meeting at Addington, which starts at 12.15pm today. 1: Muscle Mountain (R8, No 1) Only one of trotting's big three turns up for this Group 1, and he should lead and win. The last time Muscle Mountain was in a sprint field of similar quality (no Sundees Son or Bolt For…

Reigning Inter Dominion-winning trainer Jason Grimson plans to step up his title defence in the second round of qualifying heats at Shepparton on Tuesday night. Grimson didn't win a heat of last year's Sydney series, but snared the final, albeit on protest, with longshot Boncel Benjamin. The Menangle trainer is confident I Cast No Shadow can…

Grass track harness racing returned to the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club this afternoon (Sep 25.) with the Moutukarara track awakening from a six-month hiatus. While the weather was cold, the racing promised to be anything but with the feature of the day being the 58 running of the time-honoured D G Jones Banks Peninsula Trotting Cup for the Open…

Twenty-eight years after he first won Down Under's biggest trotting event with Diamond Field - and 16 years since his most recent - the driver has a shot to win his fifth title with Bolt For Brilliance. by Adam Hamilton More than 28 years after champion driver Tony Herlihy won his first Inter Dominion, he thinks he has the horse to win Down Under's…

North Island harness racing heads south of the Bombay Hill's top Cambridge on Thursday night with the promise of some even fields and exciting betting races. And while the Waikato meeting may be void of some of the star power we have seen at Alexandra Park in recent weeks, only one of the eleven races on the programme has an odds-on favourite at…