Author: NZHarnessNews

By Jonny Turner It is easy to forget that one of the stars of New Zealand harness racing is just a baby. That’s how driver Tim Williams describes Aardie’s Express who will take her spring campaign in a new direction at Winton today. The classy mare is set to start at red-hot odds ($1.20FF) in a mobile mile that features the return of another big name in Robyns Playboy. Aardies Express was set to win her last start at Addington before she broke before the home turn. Williams blamed himself…

Here’s Greg O’Connor with the latest Addington News. 

The Invercargill Harness Racing Club is delighted to announce the introduction of the Invercargill Harness Ascot Park Iron Horse Bonus Scheme for pacers and trotters for the 2023/23 racing season. Over the last few months the club committee has discussed various options for a bonus scheme specific to their race meetings and they have settled on the Iron Horse scheme which sees a pool of $27,500 up for grabs at the season end! Conditions: The top 10 most raced horses that have started at an Invercargill Harness meeting only and…

Tickets on sale for Cup week Tickets are now on sale for New Zealand Cup day, Tuesday November 14. There are a range of options, starting with General Admission for $40.To see more click here Another milestone for Lazarus Lazarus sired his first southern hemisphere stakes winner when Sir Knight took out the Group 2 NSW Breeders Challenge for 2YO Colts and Geldings at Menangle on Saturday night. Trained by Elizabeth Heath and driven by Robert Morris, the five start maiden was given no real chance. He ended up paying…

By Adam Hamilton High profile Aussie owner Duncan McPherson hopes his star trotter Aldebaran Zeus can “do a Just Believe” when he tackles some of the world’s best trotters. Aldebaran Zeus, a five-time Group 1 winner who also won the Group 2 Waikato Flying Mile at Cambridge in April this year, will fly the flag for Down Under trotting in the $US1mil Yonkers International Trot in New York on Sunday morning our time. “How can you not look at what Just Believe did and think it’s a great sign” McPherson…

A new season of the Box Seat with hosts Greg O’Connor and Michael Guerin.  

By Michael Guerin If Friday night’s Avon City Ford New Brighton Cup is anything to go by we are in for a great spring of build-ups to the New Zealand Cup. The open class pace on a stacked Addington card has drawn a field of 16 headlined by the return of B D Joe and Republican Party against in-form recent winners Anything Goes, Mossdale Ben, Macandrew Aviator and American Me. That is a huge field for this stage of spring and when you consider the southern open class ranks are…

Greg O’Connor goes One-On-One with Nicky Chilcott – the only NZ female to have trained & driven 500+ winners.