Race replays of the week

On North American harness racing tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe the champion trotter is celebrated as a king of the track.

In Harnesslink Race Replays of the Week we bring you a snapshot into the very best contests from around the harness racing tracks of the world.

USA REPLAY

Steve Wolf covered the rich Pacey “The Wizard” Mindlin Pace Baby Pace Memorial Invitational from Saturday afternoon at Miami Valley. The major feature going the way of the 9/2 Carbine (Somebeachsomewhere) and driver Austin Hanners. The overall time a smart 1:49.1. The pocket-sitting Hellabalou (Chris Page) was second with Taurasi and driver Trace Tetrick third.

CANADIAN REPLAY 

Nicholas Barnsdale reported on the $45,000 Bev Sears Memorial on Saturday. The feature on the card at Century Downs saw Outlawabovenbeyond (Captive Audience) prove a little too slick for her race rivals. The mare shifting into top gear turning for home and kicking away from her foes, streaking to a six-length score in 1:54.2 over Riskofthunderstorm and Tina La Vida.

AUSTRALIAN REPLAY

Terry Gange reported on some amazing Menangle action from Saturday with one of the feature races, the $100,000 Slingsby Holdings McArthur Mile Trotting Mares going the way of Im Ready Jet (Quaker Jet) It was the seven-year old’s 25th career win, the win coming at the expense of both Queen Elida and Majestic Trio.

NEW ZEALAND REPLAY

Bruce Stewart covered the running of the NZ Messenger out of Alexandra Park on Friday night, the pacing feature was a case of deja vu from a week before with the grand campaigner Mach Shard upsetting favoured rivals to take another major title. The win, this week, coming about at odds of around 20/1 was in contrast to his 155/1 romp in the Taylor Mile a week ago. Watch the late bid for glory here.

We’ll be back in seven days time with more race replays of the week

by Harnesslink Media