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19 June 2021

Stormont Star shines brightly in Launceston

For A Reason gelding, Stormont Star recorded his second win of the season with a tough victory in a rating 55 to 70 event in Launceston on Friday evening. From barrier two on the second-row, trainer-driver Conor Crook was able to push through and settle in a one-out one-back position before a mid-race...

19 June 2021

Goodform Gameplan: Melton Sat 19th June

Jason Bonnington has a stack of betting options for you tonight at Tabcorp Park Melton. Get race ready with the Game Plan, tips, speed maps and all-important confidence meter.

18 June 2021

Bon and TOC fancy Saint and Rupert

Harness Racing Victoria form analysts Jason Bonnington and Tim O'Connor have come up with a couple of horses at nice each-way prices that they think can get the job done on Saturday night. Bonnington has marked Torrid Saint as his best value play of the Tabcorp Park Melton card, with the gelding currently...

18 June 2021

Trots Centre: Alby drives 500th as training aspirations burn bright

As Alex Ashwood ticks off a major career milestone in the sulky, he already has plans to give up driving and focus on life as a full-time trainer. The Hobart-born reinsman chalked up victory number 500 in the cart aboard Rocknroll Rhylee at Mildura this afternoon, and will kick-start his own training...

18 June 2021

Bonnington: Tackling the early class versus form confusion

WITH the advent of a re-structured racing season June is now the new October, or for thoroughbred fans, the new August. Every year, punters are plunged into a particularly perplexing period where emerging stars with picket fence formlines are pitted against returning guns with talent rather than fitness...

18 June 2021

HERO Manager to step down in July

Harness Racing Victoria (HRV) advises that Tanya McDermott has resigned from her role with HRV HERO and will finish her time with the program on 30 July 2021. McDermott has been Manager of the HRV HERO program since its inception in 2015.

18 June 2021

SA Trots - Exciting Incentive Announced for SA Breeders

Exciting Incentive Announced for SA Breeders Harness Racing SA today announced that Borg Racing, in conjunction with Mr Kevin Seymour, have come together to sponsor a series of races promoting the exciting stallion, Gotta Go Cullect. The `Gotta Go Cullect Race Series’, which commences mid-July...

18 June 2021

NZ Tonight: Plenty of play left in Pembrook

One wild spin around the paddock led to one phone call that has led to one more race for Pembrook Playboy at Alexandra Park tonight. The most exciting horse in Southland could easily have been home by now, resting at the end of a season that has seen him win seven races and claim the scalps of New Zealand...

18 June 2021

Trial File: Modestly rated former Kiwi trotting mare catches the eye

Emma Stewart's stable appears to have added a likely type to their team from New Zealand, with a trotter this week catching the eye of trial watchers. Misucci was added to Craig Rail's Trial File Blackbook after an impressive Melton hit out by the four-year-old, who was bred and is owned by Jan Calvert....

17 June 2021

Ladies In Red 'thriving' after break, Oaks first target

One of last year's star two-year-old fillies is back in work and on track for her reappearance at the races in August. Owner Bill Anderson said Ladies In Red was "thriving" after an extended break, with her main aims in 2021 being the Victoria Oaks, Breeders Crown Series and Vicbred Super Series....

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