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Williamson’s Busy Week

Bruce Stewart • 8 November, 2020

Branxholme trainer Nathan Williamson is in for a big week.Pembrook Playboy and Andy Hall are his two starters for Cup Day in Christchurch on Tuesday, and Dark Horse, Franco Santino and Longueval will ... read more

Jones Get Diamonds Day Double

Bruce Stewart • 29 October, 2020

Burnham trainer Mark Jones became the first trainer to win both the Southland Oaks and the Southern Supremacy Stakes on the same day in the same year, with Stylish Memphis and Burnham Boy winning at A... read more

Playboy Off To The Big Dance

Bruce Stewart • 25 October, 2020

“Good manners won it for him today. He made the handicap half of what it should have been,” co-trainer Ross Wilson commented after Robyns Playboy won the Dan Cummings Memorial Tuapeka Cup – keep... read more

Sentry Marches On

Bruce Stewart • 15 October, 2020

Edendale trainer Craig Laurenson has a lot to thank Invercargill reinsman Rory McIlwrick for, as he nearly sacked Sentry – an impressive winner at Winton today – not once but four times.“I... read more

Bizzie Wins for Baucke

Bruce Stewart • 15 October, 2020

Woodlands trainer Steve Baucke has always liked Bizzie Lou and she won for the stable at the Wairio Meeting today. He bought the filly at the Weanling Sales in Auckland.“She wants to be there. She’s a... read more

Pembrook Playboy Stamps His Class

Bruce Stewart • 10 October, 2020

Pembrook Playboy showed all the qualities of a horse going places when he beat a tidy field at the Northern Southland Trotting Club Meeting at Ascot Park today.What made the win memorable was that he ... read more

Whisper Breath Taking

Bruce Stewart • 10 October, 2020

Chinese Whisper lit up Ascot Park today, coming from a long way back to win his sixth race and in doing so breaking a track and Southland record.The excitement machine was the highlight of a days raci... read more

Ragazzo Rounds Them Up

Bruce Stewart • 10 October, 2020

Ragazzo Mach lived up to the big rap his connections always give him when he delivered in emphatic style at Ascot Park today.The Mach Three colt had won three workouts and two trials so was well prepp... read more

UDR Brian

Bruce Stewart • 27 September, 2020

Mixing with some of the biggest players in harness racing, training a Group winner in his first season, feeling the pressures of training a champion pacer – all of these have made Southlander Brian O’... read more

SBSR On A Roll

Bruce Stewart • 27 September, 2020

Mach Shard played the lead role in a hot twenty four hours of success for Southern Bred Southern Reared horses on both sides of the Tasman.Jimmy Mack – Photo Bruce StewartThe Mach Three gelding ... read more