Harnesslink News Room  |  11:00 am  |  9-Feb-2010  |  NZT

Auckland Reactor, former Harness Horse of the Year and Auckland Cup winner in New Zealand, arrived in the United States last Wednesday (Feb. 3) to prepare for a summer race schedule with nary a bump in the journey. Just one problem - he's a bit chilly.

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Harnesslink News Room  |  2:13 am  |  07-Feb-2010 |  NZT

Eleven years after his incomparable sire, Courage Under Fire, took out the same race, outstanding New Zealand stayer Courage To Rule staged a mini harness racing coup tonight (Friday) by winning the $200,000 Alabar Victoria Derby.

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Thoroughbred NEWS  New Zealand  |  Feb. 2, 2010  | by Jeff Dore

Harnesslink News Room  |  7:10 pm  |  4-Feb-2010  |  NZT

Ex-pat Australian trainer, Peter Walsh is gearing up for his ninth season training in North America. The 49-year-old, who was renowned for his training exploits in Melbourne and Sydney in the 1990s, is these days based in Chesterfield, New Jersey.

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Harnesslink News Room  |  2:57 am  |  30-Jan-2010  |  NZT

The 2-year-old pacing fillies came out to play at Alexandra Park tonight (Friday Jan. 29). Twelve of the 13 starters were having their first career starts, and it was a Bettor's Delight filly, which not only justified favouritism, but in doing so received big praise from Harness Racing New Zealand's leading reinsman, Dexter Dunn.

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Singapore Turf Club Local News  |  January 29, 2010  |  by Craig Brennan

A solid all the way pace saw former Argentinean galloper Going On Here break his maiden status in Singapore when successful in the $55,000 Class 4 Blackberry Cup over 1700m on the Polytrack on Friday night.

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Thoroughbred News  |  23 Jan 2010  |  by Jeff Dore

Last September, Phillip O’Shea returned from working as a builder in London to see Vonusti (5 Br. G. Ustinov – Reasonably, by Sound Reason) race for the first time, and celebrated with his father Tom and fellow owner Ramesh Patel after their pride and joy won the $1,000,000, Group I, The Oaks Stud Telegraph Handicap (1200m) at Trentham racecourse in Wellington on Saturday.

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The FEI today launched a new website dedicated to its ongoing Clean Sport Campaign. The website’s address is: www.feicleansport.org
 
The website contains information about the new regulations that the FEI is implementing this year to combat doping in equestrian sports. The rule changes and other components of the Clean Sport Campaign were approved unanimously at the FEI’s General Assembly in Copenhagen last November.
 
“We felt it was important to have a dedicated site where people could go to get all the information they needed,” FEI Secretary General Alex McLin said. “We firmly believe this site will raise awareness of our anti-doping efforts and increase overall compliance with the new rules when they come into force on 5 April this year.”
 
The site is specifically tailored to the needs of athletes, vets, officials, media and others to help them understand their roles in the Clean Sport Campaign. The site also contains details about the new Equestrian Community Integrity Unit that was a key recommendation of the Joint-Commissions to help monitor corruption, identify offenders and conflicts of interest in equestrian sports, as well as safeguard horse welfare. Members of the Equestrian Community Integrity Unit will be present at major FEI events beginning in April.
 
The new Clean Sport website will be complemented by the FEI’s revamped website www.fei.org which is due to be launched shortly.

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Spreydon Lodge  |  2008/2009

Classy Canterbury mare Nearea Franco showed exactly why harness racing's ultimate staying test, the NZ Cup over 3200m is right up her alley, when she fought back after being headed at the top of the straight, to win the final leadup race, the Group Two $50,000 Alabar Kaikoura Cup at Kaikoura today (Monday).

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Harnesslink News Room  |  9:38 pm  |  3-Jan-2010  |  NZT

Mark Purdon and Grant Payne might have trained a record seven winners at Auckland Trotting Club's meeting at Alexandra Park on New Year's Eve but Brian McMath of Flair Equine Nasal Strips went two better, creating his own New Zealand harness racing record.

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