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Victoria Derby (harness)
The Victoria Derby is Australia's oldest classic harness race, dating back to 1914 when it was contested on the old Richmond circuit. Winners Past winners of the Victoria Derby are: * 2022 Leap To Fame * 2021 Act Now * 2020 Line Up * 2019 Muscle Factory * 2018 Colt Thirty One * 2017 Our Little General * 2016 Lazarus * 2015 Menin Gate * 2014 Our Maxim * 2013 Ohoka Punter * 2012 Scandalman * 2011 Sushi Sushi https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=23230 * 2010 Courage To Rule * 2009 Captain Joy * 2008 Tanabi Bromac * 2007 Lombo Pocket Watch * 2006 Divisive * 2005 Emmas Only * 2004 The Sentry * 2003 Bellas Boy * 2002 Tricky Vic * 2001 Rare Gem * 2000 Stars And Stripes * 1999 Courage Under Fire * 1998 Holmes D G * 1997 Lavros Star * 1996 Sharp And Telford * 1995 Blueagle * 1994 Khans Thunder * 1993 Golden Reign * 1992 Lotsnlots * 1991 Dark Paul * 1990 Admiral Holliday * 1989 Westburn Grant * 1988 Another Bart * 1987 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazarus (horse)
Lazarus is a former champion New Zealand Standardbred race-horse and is now a stud stallion. He was trained by Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen. Driven by Mark Purdon he won the following major races in New Zealand and Australia: * 2015 New Zealand Yearling Sales 2YO Open Mobile Pace. * 2015 Harness Jewels 2YO Emerald. * 2015 NRM Sires Stakes Series Final. * 2015 New Zealand Yearling Sales Series Final. * 2016 Victoria Derby. * 2016 New Zealand Trotting Derby. * 2016 Great Northern Derby * 2016 New Zealand Trotting Cup. * 2016 New Zealand Free For All. * 2017 Victoria Cup * 2017 Chariots Of Fire * 2017 Inter Dominion Pacing Championship at Gloucester Park, Perth beating home Chicago Bull and Tiger Tara. * 2017 New Zealand Trotting Cup. * 2018 A G Hunter Cup After he won his second NZ Trotting Cup in November 2017, he headed overseas firstly to Australia and then to the United States and Canada where he performed with distinction, including winning the $325,000 Dan Patch Stake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Joy
Captain Joy is a Standardbred pacing racehorse whose wins include 6 Group 1 victories including three Derbies, 13 consecutive wins as a 2 and 3 year old and a total of 26 wins through to the end of his 6 year old season. He is a bay gelding who was foaled in New South Wales, Australia on the 20 October 2005 and sired by Mach Three, his dam Lady Joy was by Talk About Class. Mach Three, 1:49, earned $2,376,700 and sired several other good horses including Auckland Reactor and Somebeachsomewhere. Lady Joy won 13 races and $81,169 in a brief career of just 24 starts. Beyond Captain Joy she has also produced Another Joy (9 wins $103,319), Lightning Joy (a trotter, 11 wins $103,375) and Master Joy (12 wins $137,270). Her feats were recognised in 2009 when she was awarded the Australian Broodmare of the Year title. Racing record His racing career began as a two-year-old in May 2008 with his first two starts when he finished mid field in races at Harold Park Paceway in Sydney. He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lombo Pocket Watch
Lombo Pocket Watch is a champion Australian grey Standardbred colt foaled on 16 October 2003. Bred and raced by Western Australian owner Mick Lombardo, and was primarily trained near Cawdor by Paul Fitzpatrick, with son Gavin Fitzpatrick the regular driver. In his first season of racing as a two-year-old, he won five Group One (G1) races and was voted the overall 2006 Australian Harness Horse of the Year, the first two-year-old to win the award and his earnings of $642,375 was an Australian juvenile record. As a three-year-old, he won another five Group One races including three of the prestigious derbies and was voted 2007 Australian 3yo Pacer of the Year. As a four-year-old, he won another two Group One races to bring his total to 12 Group One races, and a combined 36 race wins and prize money of A$1,401,568. He stood at stud at Concorde Park in Victoria, Australia, before being brought back into training as a late five-year-old. Lombo Pocket Watch finally retired for good i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courage Under Fire (horse)
Courage Under Fire (1 August 1995 – 29 July 2017) was a New Zealand-bred champion Standardbred race horse notable for being undefeated in his first 24 race starts. A diminutive horse, he was known as Mighty Mouse. Racing Courage Under Fire was undefeated in both his two- and three-year-old seasons of racing. As a three-year-old he won a record six derbies. In the Australian Derby at Moonee Valley he broke the track record defeating local star Shakamaker.Addington Hall of Fame www.hof.co.nz As an older horse Courage Under Fire was defeated for the first time in a heat of the 2000 after winning his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holmes D G
Holmes may refer to: Name * Holmes (surname) * Holmes (given name) * Baron Holmes, noble title created twice in the Peerage of Ireland * Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond (born 1971), British former swimmer and life peer Places In the United States * Holmes, California, an unincorporated community * Holmes, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Holmes, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Holmes, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Holmes, a hamlet within Pawling (town), New York * Holmes Township, Michigan * Holmes City Township, Minnesota * Holmes Township, Crawford County, Ohio * Holmes County, Florida * Holmes County, Mississippi * Holmes County, Ohio * Mount Holmes, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming * Fort Holmes, Mackinac Island, Michigan * Holmes Island (Indiana), an island and community * Holmes Island (Washington), an island * Holmes Reservation, a conservation parcel in Plymouth, Massachusetts In Antarctica * Holmes Summit * Holmes Glacier * Holmes Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westburn Grant
Westburn Grant (1985–2020) was an Australian champion Standardbred race horse notable for being a three time Australian Harness Horse of the Year. Westburn Grant raced only three times at aged two in the 1987-88 season for three wins.Cain, R (1990), Harnessing A Miracle, At age three he blossomed winning the Victoria and New South Wales Derbies and finishing third in the Australian Derby. In the NSW Derby he beat Victorian pacer Rockleigh Victory by 21 metres in a track record mile rate of 1:59.0 for 2350 metres. He also travelled to New Zealand where he was unbeaten in three races including the New Zealand Derby where he outclassed the local horses winning by nearly nine lengths. He was named Australian Harness Horse of the Year for 1988-89. As a four year old in 1989-90 Westburn Grant won the Miracle Mile Pace beating Thorate and Jodie’s Babe after an early speed battle with Thorate. He effortlessly won the Treuer Memorial at Bankstown and won the Golden Nugget against his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleface Adios
Paleface Adios (1969–1989) was an Australian harness racing horse which competed as a pacer throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. He raced from 1972 to 1981, (from the age of two years until he was retired at the age of 11 years) when there was top competition from the likes of the Hondo Grattan and Pure Steel. He was a chestnut Standardbred pacer with a white blaze and feet, and a golden mane. Paleface Adios was foaled on 1 November 1969, at Temora, NSW and was by Deep Adios (by Adios) out of Rayjen by Brigade Command. Rayjen was the dam of several full siblings to Paleface Adios, but they failed to match his ability as racehorses. Racing record Paleface Adios was trained and driven throughout his career by Colin Pike, and was owned by Colin's wife, Shirley Pike. He was nicknamed ''The Temora Tornado'', in honour of the town where he was bred and trained. He raced with a 'daisy cutting' action which gave the impression that his feet were not touching the ground with each s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harness Racing In Australia
Harness racing, also colloquially known as trotting or the trots, is a spectator sport in Australia, with significant amounts of money wagered annually with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB). In Australia there are 90 harness racing tracks, which hold over 1,900 meetings annually. There are approximately 2,900 drivers and 4,000 trainers with about 5,000 Standardbred horses foaled and registered each year. Racing Harness racing in Australia is conducted with Standardbred horses racing around a track while pulling a driver in a two-wheeled cart called a "sulky", "gig" or "bike". Standardbred racehorses compete in two gaits, pacing and trotting, and trotters may enter pacing events, but not vice versa. Pacers contest 80% to 90% of Australian harness races. Races are conducted in an anti-clockwise direction generally over distances from 1,609 metres (1 mile) to 2,650 metres, although some races such as the A G Hunter Cup are run over longer distances. Harness racin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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