Riverton Trotting Club has been granted final signoff by Harness Racing New Zealand to race on the Riverton grass track at the end of the month.HRNZ Track Manager John Denton inspected the surface on ... read more
The new-look new-styled Southland Harness Awards are being held on the evening of Saturday the 2nd of March 2024. The organisers are now calling for nominations for the Southland Horse of the Year and... read more
Progressive harness racing gelding De Vinci (Art Major) came with a wet sail down the outside to win the Golden View Care and Lifestyle/Mossdale Cromwell Cup today.There were a number of lead changes ... read more
Eight year old trotting mare Sally Lindenny (Majestic Son) has proved to be a bit of a bargain buy for Southland harness owner Murray Swain.“I think I paid three and a half for her. Kevin Townley had ... read more
After having no luck with Kikorangi Blue (Betterthancheddar) at her last start, Southland harness racing driver Brent Barclay didn’t want a repeat in todays $25,000 Peters Genetics Roxburgh Cup.Once s... read more
Today’s Ruggedy Charters Handicap Trot was a huge drop in class for Tinwald trotter Maui and his talent shone through, beating Vertigo and making it a father, son and sire (Peak) quinella.Maui began w... read more
Blair Orange pulled the right rein in today’s harness racing feature at Omakau the $40,000 Group Three Ranfurly Transport Ltd/RD Petroleum FFA.Orange knew todays feature was always going to be tactica... read more
Smokin Bandar (Monkey Bones) won his twelfth race at the Omakau harness racing course today when he took out the $30,000 Andrew May Contracting/Alexandra New World FFA.Smokin Bandar parading before hi... read more
On Thursday the Roxburgh Trotting Club will celebrate 75 years of harness racing.Formed in 1932 the Club held its first race meeting in 1933. The early meetings were non-totalisator and it wasn’t unti... read more
Five track records were broken yesterday on the newly resurfaced Gore harness racing track.Sand Wave’s winning time of 3-18.7 in the Gore Cup was a new track record, beating Pulp Fiction’s 2015 record... read more
