Tim O'Connor picks his favourite bits from the harness racing week that was and the one ahead...
It just feels right to have Mark Purdon a key part of next month’s Brisbane Inter Dominion.
With a new, exciting bunch of babies’ set to launch their careers in North America in the next fortnight and the opening leg of the Grand Circuit less than a month away, the focus will be well and truly on the stallions being represented by their first crops.
In a harness racing season full of surprises, what Greg Sugars has achieved might just be the greatest.
The harness season ends tomorrow night with the $250,000 Trillian Trust Auckland Cup meeting, with Sugars trying to win the Cup for the second time in seven months with Better Eclipse.
Bronte Nieuwenburg has taken a deep dive into the upcoming Saturday night meeting at Melton, using stats and sectional times to break down the key runners.
Victorian-trained trotters have dominated the first quarter of the Australasian season - and the numbers tell the story.