Harness Racing Blog

For those outside of Australia and New Zealand, you can watch the Interdominion final from the Auckland Reactor website by clicking the following link.
Interdominions Live Streaming 2009
The big race starts at 8pm Brisbane time, 11pm NZ time, and 6am Eastern. (If you’re not in any of those timezones you can get the time in Brisbane [...]

Harnesslink will be streaming footage of the NZ Premier Yearling Sale to the right of our Homepage for the next few days.
We’d like to do this with every major sale around the world, but at the moment not everyone’s quite up with the play.
You can also watch the sale below, and keep up with all [...]

This is fairly old news, but last week former Illinois Governor, (the guy who allegedly tried to extort money from Balmoral and Maywood Park owner John Johnston) went round the American talk shows pleading his innocence.
Here he is on Letterman talking about audio tapes which show him conspiring to extract money from “Johnny Johnston” You [...]

By now you probably know that Somebeach didn’t end up winning, the Athlete of the year award went to Chantal Petitclerc who won five gold medals and set three world records at the Beijing Paralympics.
Not only that, but the organisers decided a quick kick in the face was warrented, changing [...]

Do not watch this film if you bore easily, you’ve been warned.

As promised (though a bit late), here’s some more behind the scenes footage of Deweycheatumnhowe.
I’m in no way an expert, so please correct me if I’m wrong - but that lake doesn’t look to clean and Dewey has had some throat promblems of late. What do you think?

In other news, [...]

The folks at the Meadowlands were kind enough to send us some video of Somebeachsomewhere and Deweycheatumnhowe. And because (as I’m sure your aware), we’re big YouTube fans, we of course put it on there for all to see.
Here it is below:

We have more video, so if I have time [...]

10 hours ago, somebody uploaded the entire video from the 1949 movie The Great Dan Patch to YouTube.
Here it is below. YouTube limits mean it is in 12 segments, but I’ve combined it to one playlist so that they will all load after one one another. IF you would like to expand the video, click [...]

…according to YouTube.
The following represents only the most viewed videos online. It is by no means a list of the greatest races, drives or anything like that. These are taken from the most viewed list on Harnesslink TV, which is like a YouTube for Harness Racing.
I’ve skipped over the Don and Ron Videos because I [...]

On Friday Night (NZ time) Auckland Reactor bested the top NZ horses - including 1.2m NZ Cup winner Changeover to snatch victory in the $300,000 NZ Free for All.

This amazing run will be followed up when he takes on Australian superstar Blacks a Fake in the Miracle Mile at Harold [...]