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Horsham trainer Aaron Dunn is holding on to the slim hope Victoria can protect its recent dominance in the $250,000 Group 1 Chariots Of Fire at Menangle on Saturday week.

Victorian young gun James Herbertson missed the one person who would have mattered most when he thrashed some of the world’s best drivers to win the Ladbrokes Ultimate Driver Championship.

Dual Australian premiership winner James Herbertson carries Victoria’s hopes into the innovative Ladbrokes Ultimate Driver Challenge at Albion Park this weekend.

HRV acknowledges the serious bushfire conditions currently impacting parts of Victoria and urges all participants, industry workers and the broader community to prioritise personal safety and animal welfare.

When Rebecca East arrived home in the wee small hours of Sunday morning she would have worn the satisfied grin of a successful long day at the office after landing her first Saturday night double at Melton.

Melton’s Shakamaker Drive will close to participants, and there will be additional mares and claiming races programmed in coming months, in the latest report from Harness Racing Victoria’s Racing Office.

James Herbertson believes Victoria’s most popular pacer, Bulletproof Boy, will break the clock at Melton in the coming months after the rising 11-year-old took out the Beraldo Coffee Free For All on Saturday night.

The gallant win of Mecarno in the Group 1 $60,000 Yabby Dam Farms Victoria Trotters Derby at Maryborough was some redemption for his dam Sundon’s Pride, who ran second in the same race 18 years ago.

“It’s at the lower end of the scale, and while no soft tissue injury is great, if you’re rating it out of 10 in terms of how bad it is, it’s probably a two.”

One of the real personalities of Victorian harness racing, Jason Lee, went to extraordinary lengths last Saturday (Sept 6) to combine two of his sporting passions – football and harness racing.

The Victorian Harness Racing community is mourning following the loss of esteemed Charlton owner, trainer and driver Matt Donaldson who passed away in Bendigo on Friday August 22 at the age of 90. He had been in aged care for the past three years.