Hamilton: Amazing US blitz reminds of excitement beyond our borders

01 May 2023 | Adam Hamilton
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Watching Amazing Dream beat some of the world’s best mares in New York last week got me thinking: The harness racing world, especially now the pandemic is behind us, really is a small one.

While we all love to get out to Melton and see the stars race in our own backyard, we are also blessed to have so many horses we know and love to race all around Australia, across the ditch in NZ and even much further abroad.

What a buzz it was last Tuesday morning our time watching two horses we loved and adored in Victoria – or Australasia for that matter – in Amazing Dream and Lochinvar Art chase Group 1 glory and some serious prize money at Yonkers.

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