| "Gracie Wilkes" - NSW 3 yr old. By - starts, wins. Fastest MR: |
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| TROTTERS INTERDOMINION 2004 WINNER! SUMTHINGABOUTMAORI |
| Pacers: 2 year old Emmas Only 2 year old filly White Thunder 2 year old colt/gelding Emmas Only 3 year old The Sentry 3 year old filly Nemeeshar 3 year old colt/gelding The Sentry Mare Lombo La Fe Fe |
| Harness Racing in Australia Official Site |
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| Harness-net info & harness links. |
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| RIRDC Govt. research department includes equine health & the performance equine. Free newsletter. |
| Contact the webmaster for any information about this site. |
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| "White Thunder" - Qld 2 yr old. By Presidential Ball - Latoya Franco 4 starts, 4 wins. Fastest MR: 1:58.5, 1660m |
| "GLOBAL FORCE" - 3 yr old By Walton Hanover - Schehallion 22 starts, 7 wins. Fastest MR a sizzling: 1:57.4 |
| Pacers Overall - Sokyola $ 618,000 2 yr old - Devastating $ 25,720 3 yr old - Lets Thank Heaven$ 24,315 |
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| Trotters Overall - Gold N Gold $ 98,688 2 yr old - $ 3 yr old - $ |
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| Harness Racer - joint Vic, SA & Tassie magazine |
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| Australian Horse Directory A great directory of Aust. Horse Web Sites & Internet Activities. |
| Dave's Harness Links Loads of links, news, photos & lots more. |
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| United Kingdom Standardbred Racing Assoc Harness racing in the UK. |
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| Aust. Horse Industry Council Has a good links area for harness racing plus general horse industry info. |
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| USTA - US Trotting United States Trotting website. |
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| Irish Trotting The Official ITHRF website and the home of Irish Trotting on the 'Net! Ireland's premier trotting web-site! |
| Yorke Standardbred Decoritive Pedegrees Great pedegree charts can be done of your chosen horse as well as wonderful display pedegrees. Just scroll down the Contents to Harness area. |
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| Aushorse Links Good source of links sponsored by the Company Ausvinyl for the horse industry. |
| Aus Horse Resources Loads of links to all sorts of equine web-sites, including harness racing and standardbreds. |
| The AHRC "Horse of the the Year" winner for 2003/2004 is the awesome Sokyola. Other winners were: |
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| Sokyola, by Sokys Atom - Maudola. Best winning mile rate - 1:54.6 |
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| Standardbred Canada - Harness racing in Canada |
| Maltastar - this Malta news website has an in depth harness page - just click on "Monday" (which is when they provide harness roundup) |
| World Record ! |
| 28 year old Great Western girl, Kerryn Gath has again blitzed her closest rival to finish the season as outright leader. With the Aussie season for harness racing finishing on August 31, Kerryn's season tally again toppled the 300 mark with 334 wins! The next closest was Darryl Douglas on 227 wins. |
| Kerryn's herculean efforts, enthusiastic & happy outlook, is turning the eyes of the world to Australian Harness Racing |
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| Horse & Harness Racing Shop for exclusive harness racing & horse designs on T-Shirts, sweatshirts, baseball caps & Gifts. Or supply your own photo and design idea by email - with no obligation to purchase and at no extra cost. Click here. Now Bigger & Better! |
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| Z's Picks at The Meadows Free race analysis and statistics for The Meadows Race Track, USA. |
| Congratulations to Geoff Webster, Sth Australia - who equalled the world record for 11 straight wins on different horses in mid December 2003. Stephane Bouchard of America also drove 11 straight - also in 2003 back in March. |
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| 2003/2004 Season Highlights |
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| Sumthingaboutmaori won the Trotters Interdominion final at Moonee Valley Victoria and became the first Australian horse to win the final since True Roman in 1988. |
| With just over 1000m to go, Sumthingaboutmaori was sent forward by regular driver and master reinsman, Gavin Lang for Trainer, Bryan Healy. Sumthingaboutmaori gained the death seat, with the talented Martina H gaining a run and tackling down the outside. Despite appearing to have her measure for a stride or two, the couragous Sumthingaboutmaori dug deep and fought on to win from Martina H. A fantastic win for an awesome horse! |
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| An Update: Lively Melody is doing well after suffering a bad colic attack and having to undergo major surgery when grave fears were held for his life. So well in fact that connections couldn't be happier with the progress he has made - so much so that he has been nominated for the 2005 Interdominion series. Sensational New Zealand horse, Young Rufus suffered much the same before he was to contest the 2003 Interdominion. And he has come back with seemingly no ill effects - racing in the best form of his career. |
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| CONGRATULATIONS Kerryn Gath! |
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| These are a few of the youngsters who have caught the eye recently, as potential Grand Circuit types. |
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| 2004/2005 - Grand Circuit Feature Races |
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| December |
| January |
| February |
| March |
| 23rd |
| Queensland Pacing Championship, $100,000 |
| Albion Park, Qld |
| 9th 12th 26th |
| Canterbury Draught, New Zealand Cup, $400,000 New Zealand Free For All, $100,000 SEW Eurodrive Miracle Mile, $600,000 |
| Addington, NZ Addington, NZ Harold Park, NSW |
| 4th 18th 26th 31st |
| M H Treuer Memorial, $100,000 SEW Eurodrive Victoria Cup, $300,000 Federal Hotels & Resorts Tasmanian Pacing Cship Auckland Cup |
| Bankstown, NSW Moonee Valley, Vic Hobart, Tas Alexandra Park |
| Cobbity Classic |
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| 14th 15th 21st 28th |
| Be Active Fremantle Pacing Cup, $125,000 Smoke Free SA , $100,000 Be Active Australian Pacing C'ship, $100,000 Be Active WA Pacing Cup Final, $200,000 |
| Gloucester Park, WA Globe Derby, SA Gloucester Park, WA Gloucester Park, WA |
| 12th |
| Hancook Tyres, A G Hunter Cup, $450,000 |
| Moonee Valley, Vic |
| 18th |
| Interdominion Pacing C'ship Final, $750,000 |
| Alexandra Park, NZ |
| Visit Alexandra Park New Zealand website |
| Winner |
| The following is meant as a guide only and race information may change. Updated official information can be found at Harness Racing Australia. |
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| Australian & New Zealand news. |
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| 2003/2004 Horse of The Year Winners |
| Lively Melody broke the track record at Gloucester Park on 29th October. Rating a sensational 1.54.6 for the 1742m trip - he initially raced 3 wide then sat outside the leader for the remainder in taking out his 15th win in a row. |
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| Elsu - reigning New Zealand Horse of the Year. |
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| Just An Excuse wins $400,000 2004 New Zealand Cup for second year in a row. With 2 laps to go, Elsu went around the field from a backward position to take up the running. Looking the horse to beat, with Mister D G sitting on his outside, Just An Excuse, driven by T Mitchell, put in a strong finishing run to come over the top of them to beat Elsu by a neck, Howard Bromac 3 1/2 lengths for third and Mister D G holding on in 4th place. Time for the race was 2:01.2 for the 3300m, last 800m in a slick 55.8 and 27 last quarter. |
| See the video replay of the race. Go to Harness Racing New Zealand, results for 9th November at Addington. |
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| Just An Excuse 6 yrs - Horse Live Or Die - My Excuse Trainer: R F Mitchell Owner: O Haines, Mrs I K Haines |
| Just An Excuse |
| Of other interest at the New Zealand Cup day meeting, Tribute took out the Final of the NRM Sire's Stakes Series $135,000 Group 1 event for 3 year olds, rating a sensational 1:56.0 for the 1950m trip, with the last 800m in 56.1, last 400m in 27.9. Tribute is by In The Pocket out of Going Royce and trained by Tim Butt. Marika was a neck away for 2nd, Revagain 3rd and Advance Attack was 4th. |
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| Sokyola |
| Camlach |
| The Warp Drive |
| "Katmandoo" - WA 3 yr old. By Kinney Hanover - Miss Booth 25 starts, 6 wins. Fastest MR: 1:58.9, 2140m |
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| Ladies make it 8 out of 8 |
| Jodie Quinlan, Sokyola and Lance Justice after their Miracle Mile win. |
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| Hot on his Miracle Mile win, Sokyola took control of the SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup, and then romped home in a 27.0 last quarter to win. The bridesmaid, Hexus again courageously fought home to finish 2nd, with the New Zealand star Just An Excuse finishing a credible 3rd. |
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| The Falcon Strike heads East to Moonee Valley to contest the hotly coveted $450,000 AG Hunter Cup on 12th February. The West Australian pacer will meet with some very strong competition. New Zealanders Elsu and Mister D G will be there and of the Australian brigade, "newcomers" The Warp Drive and Te Kanarama who have been sizzling leading into this race, (both of whom were featured in our "Star Watch" as 2 year olds) will be amongst the favourites. |
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| $450,000 Hankook Tyres AG Hunter Cup |
| Trotters: 2 year old Jauriol 3 year old Hurricane Flyer Mare / Aged Sumthingaboutmaori |
| In what is believed to be a World Record for any betting meeting, women took the driving honours to win all of the 8 races at an Arrarat meeting held on the 25th January. Kerryn Gath equalled her record to win 6 races, with D'Arne Bellman and Brooke Hanson winning the other two races. Kerryn is clearly leading again this season in the Australian driver's premiership and has been the leading reinsperson for the past 4 seasons. |
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| Young Rufus |
| The Falcon Strike |
| Sandy Bay |
| Elsu |