By Michael Guerin Cran Dalgety shakes his head when he looks at the TAB market for the Trillian Trust Auckland Cup. It is not that the Canterbury trainer doesn’t believe his stable star Republican Party should be a warm, or even hot, favourite for the $250,000 iconic feature at Alexandra Park on Wednesday night. It is just that Dalgety never thought he’d have a pacer paying $1.40 to win one of our great races. “It is kinda crazy when you think about it,” he says. “We don’t often have $1.40…
Category: Harness
Could today be the day for Team Telfer?
By Jonny Turner The southern harness racing scene could be even more important to Stonewall Stud after the MLT Gore Cup on Saturday (4.24pm). Trainers Steve and Amanda Telfer go into the Gore Christmas Trots meeting as equal record holders for the most wins in a New Zealand harness racing season with Roy and Barry Purdon (1993-94). The Stonewall Stud trainers have two chances to make the record their own and bag their 169th win of the year when Double Jeopardy and Slots start in the MLT Gore Cup. The…
Teaz feeling the nerves ahead of Phoebe Stud Harness 5000
By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Northern trainer Jason Teaz admits he’s “as nervous as hell” in the lead up to Sunday’s Phoebe Stud Harness 5000 at Ashburton. The Ohaupo-based horseman will line up Stone Cold in Race 6, the $60,000 A Team Construction Mobile Trot. The Wishing Stone four-year-old is one of just a handful of northern horses who have made the trip south. Their scheduled Wednesday flight was cancelled though all horses arrived safely 24 hours later. “I was a bit worried there for a bit,” says…
Southlanders hungry for piece of Harness 5000 pie
By Mike Love Southland trainers will be looking to bring home a few slices of the Phoebe Stud Harness 5000 pie from Ashburton on Sunday. A total of 28 Southland-trained horses will line up in the inaugural meeting. The 12 $60,000 finals were created with qualifying taking place over the past five months by stallions with a service fee of $5,000 or less. All races are classed as Listed and will be run over 1700m from the mobile. The shortest priced favourite of the southern-trained runners is November Nine ($1.50FF)…
Southlanders hungry for piece of Harness 5000 pie
By Mike Love Southland trainers will be looking to bring home a few slices of the Phoebe Stud Harness 5000 pie from Ashburton on Sunday. A total of 28 Southland-trained horses will line up in the inaugural meeting. The 12 $60,000 finals were created with qualifying taking place over the past five months by stallions with a service fee of $5,000 or less. All races are classed as Listed and will be run over 1700m from the mobile. The shortest priced favourite of the southern-trained runners is November Nine ($1.50FF)…
The Golden Gait – Race by Race punting guide
By Michael Guerin Tonight is one of the most unique night on the New Zealand racing calendar, bringing the top class and battlers together racing for the same money under the same conditions. The Golden Gait series is designed to reward horses who regularly start at Alexandra Park during the year with 10 mobile mile finals all worth $50,000. That means former Miracle Mile runner-up Sooner The Bettor (R5, No.7) goes around for the same money over the same trip as 10-year-old veteran Benjamin Button (R7, No.8) who will be…
Special markets released for Invercargill, Auckland and Ashburton meetings
With top-quality harness racing taking centre stage this weekend, TAB bookmakers have rolled out a stack of special markets ahead of one of the biggest harness racing weekends of the summer. Feature meetings at Invercargill and Alexandra Park on Friday lead into the inaugural Phoebe Stud Harness 5000 meeting at Ashburton on Sunday. Most of the special markets for the meetings are already open, and there’s something for punters at all three venues. All 10 of the Golden Gait races at Alexandra Park on Friday are over the 1609m distance,…
Republican Party “the horse to beat” in Friday’s Invercargill Cup
By Jonny Turner Carter Dalgety thinks it’s a good thing Friday’s Ascot Park Invercargill Cup isn’t run on paper. Dalgety will attempt to win the fourth running of Southland’s biggest race at Group 1 level, with two of those titles already to his name. After Krug’s victory in 2022, Dalgety and parents Cran and Chrissie produced Republican Party to win the event last year and it proved to be the starting point for the six-year-old establishing himself as New Zealand’s best open class pacer. A year on and little has…
Marshall lining up two fillies at Cambridge tonight
By Jordyn Bublitz David Marshall might not be as visible around the race-tracks as he once was, but he will still have a strong presence at Cambridge Raceway tonight with two fillies stepping out for the Movie Night At The Raceway 21st Dec Mobile Pace. These days Marshall keeps his operation deliberately small, a change that has come about as his son Kyle has forged his own successful path across the Tasman. Kyle, alongside partner Sophie Jeffries, has built a thriving training business in Victoria. “He’s doing so well over…
Amistozo gunning for back-to-back grass track wins at Methven today
By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk After impressing with a win on debut Amistozo will line up for the second time in eight days, at Methven today. “When I saw there was another race for her, a one win trot, I thought we’d make the most of it,” says trainer-driver John Morrison. The Creatine three-year-old had a slight bobble at the start of her first race on the grass at Oamaru last Wednesday before going to the front and holding comfortably to win by a length. “She just wanted…