Category: Harness News

Tasmania’s female drivers once again have joined their Australasian counterparts for the 2020 Team Teal campaign. The campaign commenced in Tasmania in Devonport last Sunday and will run through to 15 March across Australasia however Tasmania will include the Australian Female Drivers Championship meeting that will be held this year in Launceston on 22 March. The Team Teal…

By Peter Wharton The first standardbred skewbald ever to be offered at public auction in Australia will be sold at the 2020 Tasmanian Harness Sale at Carrick Park on Saturday, February 15. The leggy filly is one of the three-strong draft of Kerrie Hymers, of Tourello Standardbreds, Sheffield and is listed as Lot 21 in…

By Peter Wharton Lilydale hobby breeder Shane Hawes is probably best known as the breeder-owner of the smart racemare Ark Breeze, the winner of the 2016 Granny Smith and runner-up in the Bandbox. He will be offering the first offspring of the Stonebridge Regal mare, a lovely colt from the initial crop of the USA…

By Peter Wharton More than 75 percent of the dams represented in this year’s Tasmanian Harness Sale to be held on Saturday, February 15 at Carrick Park are race-winning mares or winner-producing mares. Among the race-winning dams are the Group winners Ark Breeze (Granny Smith Stakes), Cloudy Delight (Evicus Stakes and Tas. Sweepstakes), the feature…

By Peter Wharton The first progeny of exciting, young sires Betting Line, Racing Hill and Guaranteed underpin the 2020 Tasmanian Harness Sale, to be held at Carrick Park on Saturday, February 15. Betting Line, the 2016 Little Brown Jug and North America Cup winner, has a single entry, Lot 20, a filly out of Western…