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28 May 2026

Top pacers and trotters begin final tune-ups

This Saturday will mark 35 days until the opening round heats of the 2026 Inter Dominion. With just five metropolitan meetings remaining until the series begins, some of the top-ranked pacers and trotters are fine-tuning their preparations. PACERS Trials do not come any more impressive than what Leap...

28 May 2026

1000 wins and counting

There are few harness racing participants that celebrate major milestones in their craft better than Bathurst’s Nathan Turnbull and his supporters. And yet another one is likely to be celebrated after he was able to bring up his 1000th winner as a trainer at Young on Tuesday night. A fourth-generation...

28 May 2026

Riverina Paceway gearing up for historic $1million race night

Saturday night’s harness racing meeting in Wagga is being heralded as being one of the best that the sport has seen in the area with the Riverina Paceway set to play host to the Nutrien Standardbreds Classic Series finals. The eight-race program boasts a mammoth $1million in prizemoney which has...

28 May 2026

This Soho is the real deal

Reinsman Mitch Miller describes four-year-old pacer Soho The Real Deal as a big, strong and handsome horse, and he expects him to start the Gloucester Park program on Friday night with a flourish by winning the opening event, the 2130m Free Entry Pace. Soho The Real Deal is prepared by master trainer...

28 May 2026

Beetastic is working in style

New Zealand-bred four-year-old Beetastic, a costly failure when leading and fading to third as a $1.16 favourite last Friday week, is responding to a more strenuous training regime and is poised to bounce back to winning form when she begins from the No. 1 barrier in the 1730m Christmas In July Free-For-All...

28 May 2026

De Campo plans change of tactics

Leading trainer-reinsman Aide de Campo is planning a change of tactics when he drives New Zealand-bred gelding Runkle Crunch in the $31,000 Ray Duffy Memorial over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Runkle Crunch, winner of the WA Derby last year, has drawn awkwardly at barrier five and de Campo...

28 May 2026

American Eyes is set to atone

Promising pacer American Eyes, the only runner in the field of twelve in Friday night’s $30,000 Harry Capararo Westbred Pace for four and five-year-old mares who has not contested a Gloucester Park event, has bright prospects of making a winning debut at pacing’s headquarters. At her first...

28 May 2026

GOODFORM – Bronte's best at Ballarat on Thursday

Bronte Nieuwenburg has done the form for Thursday night at Ballarat. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL FORM AT THETROTS.COM.AU

28 May 2026

Ideal draw to give Hollywood Strip revenge on Brooklyn Dan in epic Wagga clash

An ideal draw gives star colt Hollywood Strip his chance to gain revenge on Brooklyn Dan for his lone defeat when the pair clash again in a highlight of Nutrien Sales Classic finals night at Wagga on Saturday. The NSW Derby winner has only once beaten in 12 starts and that came when third to Brooklyn...

28 May 2026

The TAB Eureka secures new timeslot

Harness Racing Australia has today confirmed that the TAB Eureka will move to a new position on the racing calendar, with the world’s richest pacing race to be staged at Club Menangle on Saturday, 21 November 2026. The strategic move will see the TAB Eureka transition from its traditional September...

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