Category: The Trots

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Tasmanian Harness Racing Identities Arrested and Extradited to NSW to Face Serious Drug Charges – Cross Border Criminal Ring Allegedly Operated Out of Menangle Park

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Tasmanian harness racing identities Nathan Ford (pictured) and his younger sibling Mitch Ford have been arrested and charged with alleged involvement in a major cross-State drug trafficking and supply ring. Police apprehended the Ford brothers on Tuesday and held in custody since, as extradition proceedings for their removal to NSW this week have been successful. […]

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HRNSW INDUSTRY NOTICE IN RELATION TO RECENT MEDIA REPORTS

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INDUSTRY NOTICE IN RELATION TO RECENT MEDIA REPORTS 19 November 2025 Some industry participants may have seen articles recently published in The Sunday Telegraph and in the online edition of The Daily Telegraph (or Code Sports), on 9 and 10 November 2025. Regrettably, those articles contained many factual errors. HRNSW issues this notice to correct and clarify the 10 important matters […]

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Vale QLD Trots Legend Ginger Manzelmann

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By John Lingard https://letsgohorseracing.com.au/ WE finish today’s offering with some sad news, relayed via our good mate, former bookie extraordinaire, Gary Gorrie, now living the high life in Phuket. Gary wants a legion of friends to know that a legend of harness racing in North Queensland – John ‘Ginger’ Manzelmann – has passed away. Gary […]

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HRV Cost Cuts Are Turning the Trots into a Cactus – A Vicious Cycle Has Begun That is Going to See the End of the Sport As We Know It

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and it saddens me immensely to say it, but Victorian harness racing is fucked. Absolutely and utterly rooted. All of Melton pretty much bar the track and buildings are gone, sold to pay off debt. Harness Racing gets nothing out of it except some savings on […]

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New Kids on the Block

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The more I think about the win of Got The Chocolates in the $500 000 The Velocity at Addington yesterday, the more I realize that we may have witnessed greatness. Twice. We saw it in Marketplace too. Got The Chocolate got them, and he gets all the accolades too for he did it the hard […]

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Got The Chocolates

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Got The Chocolates has come back from his winter spell a bigger and much tougher horse, and has won 3 of his 4 runs and was huge when second to Rubira in the other. He has beaten Marketplace both times they have met this prep. The first time in the Group 1 Flying Stakes Marketplace […]

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A Quick Peek at a Great Day

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We have a magnificent day of harness racing ahead at Addington, with four Group 1’s on the card plus two half-million dollar slot races for three-year-old’s the Velocity and the Ascent. This is probably the best all round program of racing all year. Sit back, strap in and enjoy the ride. RACE 3 – IRT […]

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