#Honolua Bay

When the gates fold back at 9.19pm for the SENTrack Inter Dominion Pacing Championship a breath-taking inhale will engulf the Melton course as drivers, connections, fans and punters learn whether their speed maps were correct. Who will lead? It's the defining question of the race that will define the 2022 season. Let's work from the inside out with…

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. Bettor's Delight and Somebeachsomewhere are the only stallions with multiple representation in the $500000 Inter Dominion Pacers Grand Final at Melton. Bettor's Delight…

Champion trainer Emma Stewart didn't know which horses she would run in the Inter Dominion series a month ago, now she's on the verge of a historic five runners in the Group 1 pacing final. Stewart and partner Clayton Tonkin's focus has long been young horses, but their dominance through the first two nights of this Inter Dominion has been…

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…

Kiwi star Copy That starts his road to redemption at Melton on Saturday night. It was just over nine months ago when the reigning New Zealand Cup winner - then arguably New Zealand's best pacer - had a Melbourne raid derailed by a freakish paddock accident. Copy That lashed out in his yard and fractured a splint bone in a hind leg. But…