Friday Recap - This Week in Harness Racing June 21 to June 27

Below is what happened in harness racing this week, as reported on Harnesslink and from other places across the web.

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  1. Costly delays in driving and drug charges - NZ
    Harness Racing New Zealand [HRNZ] chiefs were pleased with the Supreme Court finding in the Lisa Cropp charges, but they fear more costly delays before Geoff Small is brought to task over his driving and drug charges.
  2. Southern agent cleans out northern ranks, Garrick Knight - NZ
    Canterbury agent Bruce Hutton has just ended a seven-day buying spree in the northern region that has netted half-a-dozen horses to fill his growing American order list.
  3. Australasian record at Menangle Sunday? Marshall Dobson - AU
    An Australasian record is likely to be established at Menangle this Sunday in the Group One $100,000 SEW Eurodrive Len Smith Mile. The mobile feature sees a class field of 11 runners, including one emergency, doing battle.
  4. Plenty of Flair about Fleur De Lil, Frank Marrion - NZ
    Fleur De Lil has been a truly grand filly and now mare and her clash with the likes of Molly Darling and Good Looking Girl in the $100,000 Ladyship Mile will be one of many highlights at the big opening on the new Menangle track in NSW on Sunday.
  5. Shing Bromac for Breeders’ Crown, Don Wright - NZ
    Paul Court is to return from Canada in August to set up in a training partnership with his father Graham at Harcourt Lodge in West Melton, near Christchurch. Court jun will be home in time to drive the stable’s standout juvenile trotter Shing Bromac who has already qualified for the Australasian Breeders Crown in Victoria on 17 August.
  6. Woodlands sponsor $150,000 Free For All, Barry Johnson - NZ
    Woodlands Stud which operates from its showplace property at Clevedon, Auckland has confirmed a partnership agreement with the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club to sponsor the Group One classified New Zealand Free for All.
  7. Age records fall at Menangle opening day, NSW H.R.C - AU
    The new, spacious 1400-metre Menangle track had been expected to churn out fast times, and today’s (24th June) opening meeting didn’t disappoint, with the first race on the program producing a new national mark.
  8. Positive to Ketamine or ‘Special K’ rejected - AU
    A Controversial positive swab case involving the party drug ketamine has forced changes to testing procedures in Victorian thoroughbred and harness racing. The Kerry O’Reilly-trained pacer Resia Springfield returned a positive swab to ketamine, known in party circles as “Special K”, after winning at the Ballarat harness meeting on December 7, last year.
  9. ‘Trish’ has one move and it’s explosive, Carol Hodes - US
    Robert Siegelman is a happily married man, but he is the first to admit that a little filly with one set of white eyelashes has captured his heart. Cheyenne Trish is her name and her trainer’s only wish is that she would have a little luck so that she can make the most of her explosive speed.
  10. Taking a harness racing road trip, Derick Giwner - US
    Ever since I started following harness racing, I always wanted to visit every track possible. Before I ever dreamed of being the editor of Harness Eye – or even involved in racing – I still recall going to the Catskills (upstate New York) and begging my father to take me to Monticello; he never did.

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