#Sires Stakes

The Ashburton Harness Racing Club's Labour Day meeting branded'Magic Monday' looks like it going to be just that, with a raft of great racing across the eleven race card. Southland trainer Nathan Williamson heads north with three runners, knowing they're all in for a challenge. Rakamurph (Captaintreacherous) lines up in the Woodlands Stud Sires…

The win of Dannemora (Betting Line) on day one (26 Dec.) of the Westport meeting at Patterson Park yesterday was a proper harness racing family affair. The three-year-old filly was prepared by Ohoka horseman, Tom Bagrie, driven by his cousin, John Dunn, and the extended family were on hand to soak in the spoils including four time champion North…

More than $10 million is ready to be won this racing season as the Westspeed program ramps up rewards for locally bred horses The Westspeed concept was introduced by Racing and Wagering Western Australia in 1999 to encourage support from owners and trainers for the local breeding sector and has been steadily boosted in recent years. The Westspeed…

Divine Art (Outrageous Art) reaffirmed her dominance over the three-year-old filly division in Western Canada with her 12th straight harness racing victory in the $112910 Century Casino Filly Pace on Saturday (Dec. 3) at Century Mile. Nathan Sobey steered the filly to the top, leaving her on the rim throughout the:27.2 first panel to get there. He…

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. Better Eclipse, winner of the Chariots of Fire and Sunshine Sprint and last Saturday a heat winner at the Inter Dominion at Ballarat, is one of the best four-year-olds…

Sunday afternoon (27 Nov.) harness racing at Addington Raceway posed as a last-chance saloon for some of the budding juveniles hopeful of working their way into calculations for the upcoming Grand Prix Day at the same track this weekend. With entry qualifications based on stake money earnt, only the top 13 two-year-olds in each gait and sex will…

Friday night (25 Nov.) harness racing action at Addington Raceway will be remembered as a night where the trotting females in our racing population were duly rewarded, with the first ever Group One fillies trot and the richest race feature for trotting mares run on the same programme. The measures for success were there for all to see. Two capacity…

Alberta Sires Stakes champ Ernesto Delacruz (Vertical Horizon) impressed in the second Western Canada Pacing Derby harness racing elimination on Saturday (Nov. 26) at Century Mile. After starting sixth, the gelding marched first-over to take the lead at three-quarters. He then fended off previous leader Lets Tie One On (Kelly Hoerdt) and rolled…

Quinoa Tifah wins her career debut Thursday at Gulfstream Park. Photo by Lauren King, courtesy of Gulfstream Park April 17 (UPI) -- There's quality in lieu of quantity in this weekend's horse racing action with two "Grade A Prime" events at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas and the belated start of 2-year-old action in Florida. In Japan, 3-year-olds are the…

There's a reason we're the #1 trusted source for premium racing picks & info. A pair of stakes, the $100000 Ashbridges Bay, and $100000 Lake Ontario, co-headline Friday afternoon's card at Woodbine. The 1 1/16-mile Tapeta events are the curtain-closers for the eight-leg stakes Heritage Series, held at Woodbine and Fort Erie racetracks. Ontario…

The fields are set for the two-year-old divisions of the Breeders Crown following Friday night's (Oct. 21) elimination round at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The $2.4 million freshman championships will be contested next Friday, Oct. 28. Recaps and replays of the eliminations are available below, along with the post draws for the finals. Two-Year-Old…

A pair of main track stakes, the Lake Ontario and Ashbridges Bay, share top billing on Friday's eight-race card at Woodbine. The 1 1/16-mile Tapeta events represent the finale of the Ontario Sire Heritage Series, an eight-leg stakes series open to Ontario Sired 3-year-olds, contested at Woodbine and Fort Erie racetracks. Ontario Racing and its…

Barry Lichter writes for Lincoln Farms that Colin DeFilippi was a crushed man when he left Riccarton racecourse today after losing an 11th hour bid to drive his own horse Heza Sport in Tuesday's $600000 IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup. But he honourably urged his fellow horsemen not to mobilise any form of protest or boycott at Tuesday's big meeting…

Harness racing's Millwood Nike (Bettor's Delight) has stamped herself as an exceptional young horse with a massive future having today, achieved her seventh win from seven starts. She's adaptable too, able to handle both travelling, and racing on left and right handed tracks, with ease. She looked very good winning in Auckland earlier in the year…

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - Circling from the backfield, Patrikthepiranha A was determined to land his nose on the line first in Trial 3 of the Gold Cup and Saucer, presented by Atlantic Lottery, at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park on Aug. 15 as part of Old Home Week harness racing. Multiple Hall of Fame driver Wally…

Due to the Covid-19 Delta outbreak, New Zealand Trotting Cup organisers had to make the unfortunate call to host harness racing's big day without a crowd. Much like Melbourne's'crowdless cup' last year, attendance at Tuesday's New Zealand Trotting Cup will be limited to members, corporate partners, owners and workers, with no public…

Friday afternoon (28 Oct.) harness racing action heads back to the picturesque Mt Harding Raceway with the Methven Trotting Club set to play host for its third grass track meeting of the Spring. The club was once again greeted with stellar nominations and despite initially programming just the eight races across the afternoon, the support from…

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…

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE - Anyone looking for victory in the Saturday afternoon (Oct. 8) Atlantic Breeders Crown Three-year-old harness racing pacing colt consolation will have to go through Fern Hill General (Malicious) during the Weekend Of Champions at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The city track races at 12:30 P.M.…

ANDERSON, Ind.-August 9, 2022- A field of ten will be sent postward in the $315000 Dan Patch Stakes at Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, August 12. In what will rank as one of the most highly anticipated editions of the Dan Patch Stakes, the 29 installment of Hoosier Park's premier harness racing event will highlight the 15-race…

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,…

At Addington last night, Southland owned Treacherous Gall (Captaintreacherous) did what others couldn't and came with a barnstorming run from the back to win the Dunstan Horsefeeds Sires Stakes Heat. Trained by former Southlander Regan Todd, the leggy two year old harness racing filly is owned by Dave Kennedy and Cleland Murdoch and last night was…

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…

Harness racing action heads to Addington Raceway tomorrow night (30th Sep.) for an action-packed twelve-race card, headlined by the 52nd edition of the time-honoured Canterbury Classic at Group Two level. The likes of Self Assured, Spankem, Cranbourne, and South Coast Arden will be making their race day resumptions as the road to the New Zealand…

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…

As part of one of the best cards of the year, the Saturday Pick-5 at Woodbine Mohawk Park spans across all major stakes on the card, concluding with the Mohawk Million. Here are my thoughts for (hopefully) putting together a winning ticket. There's only a few "must include" type horses throughout the Pick-5 sequence, and two of those are in this…

The Franklin, KY racetrack - fueled by gaming and Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund money - has become a jewel of the sport. by Dean Towers I finished wagering on the last race of the Kentucky Downs thoroughbred meet on Wednesday, and I was sad to see it go. The racetrack, situated just north of Nashville, represents something pretty special…

ANDERSON, Ind.-September 16, 2022 -Friday night featured fast pacing colts on the 14-race harness racing card at Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Two divisions of the freshman pacing colts along with a single division for the three-year-old colt pacers highlighted the September 16 card as they compete in the penultimate leg of Sire Stakes…

Friday nights feature at Addington Raceway will see a handy bunch of eight three-year-old's greeting starter Ricky Donnelly and the IRT mobile barrier for the eighth running of the Sires Stakes Harness 7000. The $40000 Listed event over the 1980m is a unique concept in that it presents the runners and their connections with an opportunity to race…

INNISFIL, August 7 - The glamour boys were at Georgian Downs tonight (Aug. 7) for a pair of Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions, and the harness racing father-son duo of Gregg and Doug McNair was victorious in each. Sport Secret (Sportswriter) started the night off earning his first stakes victory in the $102200 division in race 1. McNair settled…

Northfield, OH - This year's Adios victor Bythemissal has been named the 7-5 morning line favorite in Saturday's (Aug. 13) $300000 Carl Milstein Memorial at MGM Northfield Park. The Buckeye-bred headlines an accomplished group of nine 3-year-old pacers in Northfield Park's premier event. The Milstein, a race by invitation only, is slated as race 10…