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Eight Under adds another win

BALLARAT trainer Mathew Smerdon has his four-year-old Eight Under racing in career best form after another impressive win in the Mildura Motor Holdings Handicap at the bet365 Mildura meeting in front of a big crowd on Sunday. Eight Under made...

27 May 2025
Horse Racing

Raiders and local hope headline big first race meet

CRANBOURNE trainer Shawn Mathrick has enjoyed successful trips into the district in the past and he has a strong three horse team competing at the bet365 Mildura Racing Club’s first meeting in 2025 at tomorrow’s Mildura Motor...

24 May 2025
Horse Racing

True Crime

Crime Writer, driven by Hannah Lewis and trained by Matthew Craven, came home at 11 to 1 odds to claim the $12,000 Gregg’s Electrical 2025 Ouyen Pacing Cup on Sunday. The nine-year-old brown gelding edged out another Craven trained trotter and race...

15 May 2025
Horse Racing

Young Bluey aiming for purple patch

MATTHEW Craven is somewhat of a stranger to the Sunraysia but is setting his sights on another of the region’s big harness racing features this weekend. Early last month, the top trainer-driver was rewarded for two 12-hour round trips...

08 May 2025
Horse Racing

Craven masterclass wins Cup

VICTORIAN harness racing trainer-driver Mattie Craven spent 18 hours on the road this week on a mission to win the Mildura Pacing Cup - but it was his superb drive on the track that saw him capture the time-honoured feature...

08 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

Not Dunn and dusted but Dee Roe looks the goods

ASTUTE Horsham harness racing trainer Aaron Dunn’s impressive CV, which includes multiple Group 1 victories, is, by his own admission, frustratingly short of country cups. But the Wimmera trainer is confident he has the four-year-old Dee Roe at the...

04 Apr 2025
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Kerr issues challenge

PACERS from the stable of Red Cliffs harness trainer Naomi Kerr fill more than a quarter of the available slots for Tuesday night’s qualifying heats for the Mildura Pacing Cup. The biggest event on the calendar of the Mildura Harness...

01 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

Local hope to power ahead

SIX wins from his past nine starts has seen Irymple trotter Powersofpersuasion emerge as a potential smokey for next month’s Mildura Pacing Cup. The five-year-old from the stable of Sandra O’Connor has hit his straps in recent months and his trainer...

07 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Push for safe ride home from races

A CAMPAIGN aimed to discourage people from drunk driving to and from the races is set to be rolled out in regional Victoria. The Transport Accident Commission staff, in partnership with Country Racing Victoria, planned to launch the Ready campaign...

10 Jan 2025
Horse Racing

Fine for steward abuse

A FORMER harness trainer and driver has been sentenced over an expletive-laden outburst at a Mildura race meet in 2021. The actions of Peter O’Brien, 60, were last month the subject of a Victorian Racing Tribunal hearing, where Harness Racing...

05 Dec 2024
Horse Racing

History in the making

THE Sandra O’Connor-trained Powersofpersuasion claimed a historic win at Friday’s 100th anniversary Mildura Harness Racing Club meeting at Mildura Recreation Reserve. Wayne Hill drove the four-year-old pacer to victory in the Grace Hepworth Ladies...

21 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Fast Mr Ferrari wins Mallee Cup

MR Ferrari proved he had more horse power than the rest of the field in an outstanding run to secure the $15,000 Sunraysia Daily Mallee Cup at Sandilong Park on Tuesday. The six-year-old gelding from the stable of Bordertown owner-trainer Scott Irlam...

06 Nov 2024
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Mildura saddles up for Melbourne Cup

THE race that stopped the nation kept Mildura Racecourse busy on Tuesday. Enthusiastic crowds gathered under marquees and shade to watch the main event on a big screen, in between races on the bet365 Mildura circuit. Mildura Racing Club manager...

06 Nov 2024
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Off to the Wentworth Races

IT may not have been a public holiday for New South Wales yesterday, but that didn’t stop railbirds who made their way to the annual Wentworth Races. Wentworth District Racing Club president Breeon Cole, the event couldn’t have...

06 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Campbell’s country cup double

GAWLER owner-trainer Brett Campbell followed September’s Pooncaire Cup victory with the Wentworth Cup as eight-year-old gelding Our Destrier took the honours at the Wentworth Showgrounds on Tuesday. Sharing joint favouritism with Wild Imagination...

06 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Out for Cup double

POONCARIE Cup winner Our Destrier is out to add more silverware to the cabinet of Gawler trainer Brett Campbell with victory in Tuesday’s Wentworth Cup. The eight-year-old gelding is set to start from the widest barrier of the five-horse main event...

05 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Wenty readies for big race day

FINAL preparations are being made at the Wentworth Showgrounds for a big return to country racing to the town. The annual Wentworth Races are always a smash hit each Melbourne Cup Day, and the Wentworth District Racing Club is hoping this year can be...

04 Nov 2024