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🇳🇿 “I was a dancer 💃so I didn’t want a horse 🐎coming anywhere near my feet!” 🤣Julie Maghzal and her late husband Gaby ha...
01/12/2025

🇳🇿 “I was a dancer 💃so I didn’t want a horse 🐎coming anywhere near my feet!” 🤣

Julie Maghzal and her late husband Gaby have had a marvellous run with horses they bred and owned.✔️

Julie’s latest star ⭐️is recent New Zealand Trotting Derby winner Habibti Pat.

Bruce Stewart looks back on Gaby and Julie Maghzal’s harness racing journey.

Julie Maghzal has a lifetime of wonderful memories through her involvement in harness racing.

🇳🇿“Coming round the bend her ears were twitching and she was still cruising.😁 I thought we’d better press on a bit. I di...
30/11/2025

🇳🇿“Coming round the bend her ears were twitching and she was still cruising.😁 I thought we’d better press on a bit. I didn’t think we were going that speed.”

The Gerard O’Reilly trained Esmerelda was in sensational form at Methven today, the rising star ⭐️⭐️proving too strong for her rivals in the Green Mile for pacers.

Bruce Stewart reports

Esmerelda (Always B Miki) who’s one of the finds of this summer, became the first mare to win the Green Mile for pacers when she impressively took out the

Helpisontheway (Tr 3, 1:51.8 – $610,446) — the first son of superstar sire Chapter Seven available to breeders in Austra...
27/11/2025

Helpisontheway (Tr 3, 1:51.8 – $610,446) — the first son of superstar sire Chapter Seven available to breeders in Australia & NZ

Standing at Balmain Lodge, Tatura (VIC) via frozen semen.
⭐ Already producing winners, including Group 1 star Harperseven.
💰 Service Fee: $2,500 (incl GST)
📞 Enquiries welcome!

Helpisontheway (Tr 3, 1:51.8 - $610,446), the first son of former world champion Chapter Seven, the leading North American trotting sire for three of the last

🇹🇨 “There’s been a couple of times over the last two or three years I’ve looked in the mirror 👀and thought, what the hel...
25/11/2025

🇹🇨 “There’s been a couple of times over the last two or three years I’ve looked in the mirror 👀and thought, what the hell are you doing?”😟

Well known for his work in getting unsound🐎 horses back to the races, Warren Stapleton has had his challenges with former smart three year old Take The Miki.

Bruce Stewart reports on the journey🚶‍♂️‍➡️

It’s 1,211 days since Take The Miki (Always B Miki) last raced – a long time between drinks. But tomorrow the giant gelding will make a comeback at Oamaru for

Brett Beckwith says his World Driving Championship trip to New Zealand was “the time of my life.”From Addington to Kaiko...
24/11/2025

Brett Beckwith says his World Driving Championship trip to New Zealand was “the time of my life.”

From Addington to Kaikoura’s seaside track, Beckwith says NZ harness racing is “something everyone should see once.”

--Ken Weingartner with the story for USTA

Brett Beckwith might have wanted to come away from this month’s World Driving Championship with a few more harness racing victories, but the opportunity to

Son of Lazarus looks a star in the making.Patriarch (Lazarus) made it two-from-two in Australia with another effortless ...
24/11/2025

Son of Lazarus looks a star in the making.

Patriarch (Lazarus) made it two-from-two in Australia with another effortless win at Gloucester Park.

Sent out $1.70, he sat parked, surged to the front and jogged home in 1:55.2 after a 5-length debut demolition.

--Ken Casellas with the story for Gloucester Park

There is nothing in particular in the pedigree of New Zealand-bred two-year-old Patriarch (Lazarus) to suggest he is a pacer out of the box and destined to be

🇦🇺 “Once he found the front 🏃‍➡️he was always going to be hard to beat.”Kingman🌟 backed up his brilliant New Zealand Cup...
21/11/2025

🇦🇺 “Once he found the front 🏃‍➡️he was always going to be hard to beat.”

Kingman🌟 backed up his brilliant New Zealand Cup win with another statement win 🏋️‍♀️in the Christian Cullen Classic.😃

Bruce Stewart reports 👀

“He loves Addington and he’s got that old style New Zealand Cup walk about him. He’s just an absolute machine,” trainer driver Luke McCarthy said after

🇳🇿 “It’s so good to share it 🫶with Craig and racing against Johnny, RJ and Jenna too. It’s awesome and just a privilege....
21/11/2025

🇳🇿 “It’s so good to share it 🫶with Craig and racing against Johnny, RJ and Jenna too. It’s awesome and just a privilege.”😀

The battle of Addington 🦹‍♂️continued tonight between Marketplace and Got The Chocolates.👏👏👏

Bruce Stewart reports

They’ve been at it all season, Marketplace and Got The Chocolates and tonight in the $300,000 Group One Garrards New Zealand Pacing Derby it was no different.

🇳🇿 “I just about lost her off the gate as she put a couple of steps in. 🦶Around the last bend, being three wide, 3️⃣she ...
21/11/2025

🇳🇿 “I just about lost her off the gate as she put a couple of steps in. 🦶Around the last bend, being three wide, 3️⃣she just didn’t handle it but I just nursed 👩‍🔬her round.”

Habibti Pat became the third filly 🐴to beat the boys 👨‍🦱in the New Zealand Trotting Derby in as many years. 🎯

Bruce Stewart reports ☎️

Greg and Ben Hope never gave up hope that the training partnership’s star trotting filly Habibti Pat (Father Patrick) could win tonight’s $200,000 Group One

🇳🇿 “It’s just massive. 💪It was a very hard watch.👀 I’ve got a lot of time 🕔for this filly.”😄😄Under a masterly drive from...
21/11/2025

🇳🇿 “It’s just massive. 💪It was a very hard watch.👀 I’ve got a lot of time 🕔for this filly.”😄😄

Under a masterly drive from Mark Purdon, Arafura, trained by Hayden and Amanda Cullen stormed home ⚡️to win tonight’s New Zealand Pacing Oaks.

Bruce Stewart reports 📞

With 400 metres to run, most were giving Arafura (Sweet Lou) no chance of winning the $225,000 Group One Tennant Engineering New Zealand Pacing Oaks, but

🇳🇿 “She’s very very fast ⚡️and I didn’t want to go too soon because I know when she hits the front she knocks ✊up a wee ...
21/11/2025

🇳🇿 “She’s very very fast ⚡️and I didn’t want to go too soon because I know when she hits the front she knocks ✊up a wee bit.”

In the upset of the premier night of harness racing, Dosh Dash 💯nailed hot favourite Tracy The Jet.

Bruce Stewart reports 🔍

Many were not expecting hot favourite Tracy The Jet to be beaten, but the Tom Bagrie trained Dash Dosh (Trixton) accomplished it in the $140,000 Group One

🇳🇿 “She was just about to throw that one away 🫴yesterday. It’s just a quirk of hers.”😁Major Happy, wearing the same colo...
20/11/2025

🇳🇿 “She was just about to throw that one away 🫴yesterday. It’s just a quirk of hers.”😁

Major Happy, wearing the same colours as the great pacing filly Hilarious Guest, 🤓won her sixth race 6️⃣at Rangiora yesterday.

Bruce Stewart reports

Wearing the same colours that were worn by her great grandmother Hilarious Guest, Major Happy’s (Art Major) win at Rangiora yesterday rekindled memories of

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