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Jan 18, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
Australasia’s trotting superstar of the modern era Just Believe (Orlando Vici) has been retired. Trainer Jess Tubbs and her husband driver Greg Sugars made the announcement this morning on social media, after what must have been an emotional and heart-breaking decision process for connections. It comes after the eight-year-old experienced health issues while campaigning in New Zealand late last year.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
You could say it was written in the stars – or perhaps it was just meant to be when visiting Victorian harness racing trainer Tim Mortlock cheered home tough little mare Outback Queenie (Fear The Dragon) at Tamworth last Tuesday night (Jan 14).
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
Victorian Western District hobby trainer Stephen Lambert has landed another win with a filly he hopes will be the best of his harness racing career. The Terang stock and station agent trains a handful of horses but four-year-old brown mare Ultimate Joy (American Ideal) is shaping up nicely, with her latest victory at Melton (Jan 10), the third of her brief career.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
Easygoing central Victorian harness racing trainer Tim Mortlock and his family support crew have once again made the 1200-kilometre trek to be part of the festivities (and the racing) at Tamworth’s iconic Country Music Festival. “We all like the country and western music, and there’s heaps of other entertainment through the carnival, so we’ve again travelled up with some of our horses,” Maryborough-based Mortlock said.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
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He’s won his share of good races, but a daring drive by accomplished harness racing trainer-driver and part-owner Aaron Dunn secured the Western Victorian horseman his first Country Cup at Hamilton today (Jan 12). Dunn’s fearless drive on improving four-year-old entire Dee Roe (Art Major) was undoubtedly the difference in a narrow victory in the $30,000 Matthews Petroleum Hamilton Pacing Cup. “I’ve won some Group 1s and some other good races, but I’d rate this as my first Country Cup,” Dunn said.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
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Brilliant gelding Keayang Chucky (Love You) scored a stunning harness racing win from a 50-metre handicap to go back-to-back in the Alexandra House Hamilton Trotters Cup (Jan 12) obliterating his opposition and the track record in the process!“He was probably the class runner of the field, because he’s come out of running in all the big open class trot races and going really well against the elite horses, but it was really only that big handicap that was the question,” driver Jason Lee said.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
Respected horseman Kyle Marshall, who continually turns out his team looking an absolute picture, has moved his harness racing operations. Ex-Kiwi Marshall and his partner Sophie Jeffries have been based at the Cranbourne Harness Racing training Centre since moving to Australia early in 2023, but three days ago shifted to a 30-acre property at Ballan, 30 minutes from Melton. “It’s truly horse heaven! I think we’ll be calling this home for a long, long time.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
Passionate Victorian harness racing trainer Wayne Ross has chalked up his first training win with an exciting pacer destined for bigger things. Ross, of Cobden, in the State’s south-west, combined with in-form reinswoman Jackie Barker to take out the Club Membership Online Pace at Terang (Dec 30) with bay gelding Metro Assassin (Rocknroll Hanover).
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
Country Victorian hobby trainer Wayne Stebbing has notched up a welcome first win after a 20-year hiatus from harness racing. Stebbing was rewarded for his patience with consistent square gaiter Aldebaran Selena (Majestic Sun) at Maryborough (Jan 3), the only horse he has trained since returning to racing almost exactly 12 months ago. “You’ve got to have a bit of luck sometimes and that really looked like the race for her – but we’ve thought that once or twice before,” Stebbing laughed.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
harnesslink.com | Terry Gange
MelbWhen a farmer from the remote northwest Victorian Millewa district by the name of Jack Rogers purchased a harness racing broodmare in the late 1960s, he undoubtedly changed the course of his family’s life. The mare, Moving On (Camspring) was the foundation for the Rogers family’s famed Weowna moniker, and Jack’s achievements with Moving On’s progeny and his passion for harness racing were remembered at his funeral in Mildura recently after he passed away, aged 95.
