Category: Harness News

The country’s best harness drivers will assemble in Launceston on Sunday night when Tasracing, Harness Racing Australia (HRA) and the Launceston Pacing Club (LPC) host the second Sky Racing Australian Driving Championship. Two drivers from each state will contest six races for points to decide the winning driver. Each state has selected their representatives based…

Champion pacer Beautide, has been awarded his second consecutive NIMS Global Tasmanian Horse Of The Year at the 2015 Tasracing Harness Awards and Hall of Fame Dinner at Wrest Point in Hobart. The eight-year-old Tasmanian-bred and owned gelding, raced by the Rattray Family Trust, was recently named the Australian Horse Of The Year for 2014/15…

THE Launceston Pacing Club will play host to this year’s Australian Driving Championships next month and Tasmania’s dynamic duo of Gareth Rattray and Ricky Duggan are champing at the bit to take up the challenge against Australia’s best. All states have selected their representatives and the personnel reads like a who’s who in harness racing….

Australia’s best drivers have been selected to compete in the 2015 Australian Drivers Championship to be held in Launceston on Sunday 15 November. Each state has notified their participants for the prestigious series and all have been selected on current form after finishing in the first three in their state driving title last season. The…

ONE of Tasmania’s most popular racing identities veterinarian Dr Art Meeker has been rewarded for his service to harness racing by being awarded  the prestigious Edgar Tatlow Medal. Meeker accepted the medal at the annual Tasmanian Harness Awards presentation dinner at Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Hobart on Saturday night. “I don’t know that I…