The Launceston Pacing Club once again remembers the contribution to harness racing of the late Doug and Shirley Martin in Launceston on Sunday night. Doug and Shirley resurrected the Danbury Park Cup back onto the feature race calendar in a big way several decades ago, even supplying trophies for the... Read more
Trainer-driver Luke McCarthy ticked an Inter Dominion title off his bucket list when he steered his Eureka winner Don Hugo to another big payday at Menangle on Saturday night. Don Hugo went into the 2024 TAB Inter Dominion Pacers Final as a $2.25 favourite on the back of two heat wins and survived some... Read more
The Locomotive looks the next big thing in Australian square-gaiting after completing a series clean sweep and bettering his own track record with a dominant win in the TAB Inter Dominion Trotters Final. The talented four-year-old made it eight wins on the trot and delivered a career highlight for Goulburn... Read more
TAB Eureka winner Don Hugo gave the king of Menangle, champion horseman Luke McCarthy the win he has chased for most of his career – a TAB Inter Dominion Championship. Beaten into fifth place in the first round of heats, Don Hugo improved every time he faced the starter after that first-round defeat.... Read more
Sassafrass trainer Shelley Barnes was back in the winner’s circle when three-year-old filly Petali Beach led all the way to score in the Liza Storm (2180m) in Burnie on Friday night. The three-year-old daughter of Sunshine Beach was having her fourth career start and was dropping back from the... Read more
Tasmanian owner Mick Maxfield will be trackside at Menangle in Sydney’s south-west on Saturday night to cheer on Max Delight in the $500,000 Tab Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final (2300m). Maxfield brought the son of Bettors Delight as a yearling, and he enjoyed a magnificent ride with... Read more
The Hunter Cup is the next big target for newly crowned Inter Dominion hero Don Hugo. Trainer-driver Luke McCarthy said a “hit and run” trip on Victoria’s marquee race at Melton on February 1 was most likely. Read more
MENANGLE trainer Jason Grimson is trying to cap an amazing finish to the year by doing what only harness racing royalty have done in the Inter Dominion. Grimson, just 29, won his second successive NZ Cup last month with Swayzee and is chasing his third Inter Dominion pacing final in the space of four... Read more
THE lone mare in Saturday night’s $500,000 TAB Inter Dominion Pacers Grand Final at Tabcorp Park Menangle might bring a few of the ‘boys’ undone. My Moonlite Dream has been tipped as the early leader in the Group 1, leaving her trainer-drive Seaton Grima with quite a decision. Certainly,... Read more
