Skyvalley’s ascension to the ranks of trotting superstar is complete following victory in Friday night’s $50,000 Aldebaran Park Stud Bill Collins Trotters Sprint at Tabcorp Park, Melton. The Chris Lang-trained five-year-old attained the one thing that had denied him superstar status –...

Under-rated Kiwi raider Bettors Strike shrugged off his unheralded reputation with a career-shaping win in Friday night’s $400,000 SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup at Melton’s Tabcorp Park. The Cran Dalgety-trained gelding arrived in Australia amid little fanfare despite a New Zealand Cup second...

As a horse that took 16 visits to the track to win his first race, it’s a minor miracle that Cran Dalgety’s rising star Bettors Strike is even part of the SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup, let alone a live chance in the $400,000 Group 1. A stunning progression from honest battler to quality speed...

As Brendon Hill and Monkey King approach tonight’s SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup – the final hurdle in one of the more amazing months in harness racing history – they’ve been reminded that life wasn’t meant to be easy. Having taken the Australasian pacing world by storm, capturing...

The quiet satisfaction in the voice of Toolern Vale trainer Gary Hoban as he recalls the road back to tonight’s $50,000 Aldebaran Park Bill Collins Trotters Sprint with Acacia Ridge is palpable. Having run second in the Group 1 feature as favourite in 2007, Hoban’s son of Anvil Lad went on...

Few would begrudge Lance Justice a cold beer and a quiet sigh of relief if his superstar pacer Smoken Up takes out tonight’s $400,000 SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup at Tabcorp Park, Melton. Despite being a dual Group 1 winner, the lightning son of Tinted Cloud remains one of Australia’s most...

Victorian fans of Blacks A Fake should do everything in their power to get to Melton's Tabcorp Park tonight. The legendary pacer's first look at the new home of Victorian harness racing is also likely to be his final run in The Garden State. Queensland trainer-driver Natalie Rasmussen stopped short of...

Reigning Aldebaran Park Stud Bill Collins Sprint champion Will Trapper has been denied the chance to defend his crown at Tabcorp Park on Friday night. The John Noonan-trained eight-year-old was this morning scratched following a minor paddock mishap. Will Trapper's regular reinsman Todd Matthews said...

It has been almost four years since Be Good Johnny claimed an SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup on his first visit to Melbourne, but tonight the enduing veteran is back for another crack at the $400,000 Group 1. The winner of two Miracle Miles and more than $1.5 million in prizemoney, the electric son of Fake...

With the frustration of a failed Miracle Mile bid behind him, Bacchus Marsh trainer Alan Tubbs has Melpark Major as "good as gold" in preparation for his SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup title defence tonight at Melton's Tabcorp Park. "You're always disappointed if you can't win a race that...

Sundons Gift's record in the Aldebaran Park Bill Collins Trotters Sprint - eighth in 2007 and third last year - is not a record that sits comfortably with his standing as the undisputed champion of Australian squaregaiting. Having just added an historic third consecutive SEW-Eurodrive Australian Trotting...

With a facebook page in his honour, a triple-barrel moniker that follows him everywhere he goes and a fan club that stretches nationwide, it's easy to forget that Two Eye See is a horse and not a touring rock star. The unfortunate victim of a paddock accident soon after birth, Two Eye See or the 'One-Eyed-Wonder'...

Smoken Up was the big winner at Tuesday's barrier draw for Friday night’s $400,000 Group 1 SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup. The Lance Justice-trained-and-driven front-runner landed the coveted inside barrier for Victoria’s premier Grand Circuit mobile event, which for the first time will be run...

Bold Cruiser posted another notch in his giant-killing belt when he won tonight’s SEW-Eurodrive Popular Alm Free-For-All at Tabcorp Park, Melton. The Glenn Douglas-trained gelding who has built a career on upset wins was again the bane of favourite backers when he was awarded the $30,000 Group...

Never underestimate a champion. It’s one of the best-worn adages in racing and was rammed home to harness fans tonight when Sundons Gift won another SEW-Eurodrive Australian Trotting Grand Prix. The Chris Lang-trained champion made it three-straight wins in the $100,000 Group 1 when he led from...

Sundons Gift has the barrier to continue his domination of the SEW-Eurodrive Australian Trotting Grand Prix after drawing ideally for Friday night’s $100,000 Group 1 event at Tabcorp Park, Melton. The Chris Lang-trained eight-year-old, who is shooting for a third-straight win in the maiden running...

Harness fans don't have long to wait for one of the most anticipated showdowns of the modern era. Sundons Gift and Skyvalley have both been nominated for the feature event of Friday's opening night of this year's SEW-Eurodrive Victoria Cup Carnival at Tabcorp Park, the $100,000 Group 1 SEW-Eurodrive...

The 2009 SEW-Eurodrive Australian Trotting Grand Prix – the Victoria Cup carnival’s night one highlight – is shaping as a classic battle between age and youth, experience and potential, the past and the future. Representing the ‘old guard’ are veteran squaregaiters Sundons...