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About 20 years ago Richard Goodbody was writing harness racing stories for a country paper and soon, he’ll be running the sport. It was revealed today Goodbody, a highly respected sport and racing administrator, will be Harness Racing Australia’s new Chief Executive Officer.
Amongst the euphoria of the massively successful Ultimate Driver Championship, there was a clear message to the industry. While our horses…
In a sport of great comebacks few, maybe none, can match Ricky May. The enormously popular Mid-Canterbury horseman heads to…
The TAB Eureka was everything those behind the creation of the race could have hoped for and more. It was as…
The bright lights will be back on at Melton tonight and Dan Mielicki and Rob Auber have fired up the…
Once upon a time, sport – racing in particular – was all about winning. The concept was simple; all athletes,…
Innovation is a buzzword. But, in the case of harness racing, it should be the word at the front of everyone’s…
A stellar Sunday could transform into a stunning TAB Summer of Glory for Marg Lee’s camp, which added two country…
WITH the lingering buzz of SENTrack Inter Dominion finals still in the air, it is time to take a different…
Choose your favourite sport, whatever that may be, and imagine the team or player you most admire could qualify for…
THIS year’s Victorian Inter Dominion needs to be a line in the sand for the sport’s marquee race. As each…
IN sport and racing, some wins simply mean more than others. Often, victories are elevated in esteem through prizemoney or…
Brothers Craig and Tony Jamieson have joined the Cranbourne Harness Racing Club’s training ranks following their move from New Zealand….
RACING is, intrinsically, a carnival sport. And in the trots there’s no more magnificent or iconic carnival than the one set…
Young reinsman Jack Laugher has added another accolade to his emerging career. The Victorian-based former Tasmanian claimed Horsham Harness Racing…
Australasia’s first slot race based around the hugely successful Everest concept has been confirmed for Cambridge in April, but with a…
FOR those hooked on harness racing by the seductive heroics of horses like Pure Steel and Popular Alm there’s an…
LIKE many of sport’s unique manifestations, golden generations make precious little sense. For footy lovers, the 2001 draft remains definitive…
Trying to associate just one word with where the sport of harness racing currently stands is hard to do. Labelling…
There’s an adage in racing and sport that definitively declares we learn more about horses and humans in defeat than…
A French-bred trotter has announced herself as a potential future star with a beauty of a win at Tabcorp Park…
THE time has come to ditch sprint lanes. When they were first introduced in Australia, the “sell” was increased turnover…
BIZARRE as it may sound, racing and sport is often less impelled by its champions and more by its untapped…