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No fussin’ way this horse could win at start

NO Fuss. No muss. No way. Absolutely no way – horses that miss the jump by four lengths in a 1300m dash don’t win. Except in the movies. Especially when they don’t even jump. Instead Harry Coffey’s No Fuss in the $55,000 Sportsbet Feed Handicap...

28 Feb 2025
Sport

Kerang’s McNeil orbits to victory

THE last thing you want for the last race of the night is a horse with a seriously well-earned reputation for going nuclear the minute you slip a saddle on his back. So there was no shortage of surprise all round at Moonee Valley on Friday night when...

25 Feb 2025
Horse Racing

Coffey back in winning form

IF Harry Coffey was ever going to produce perfection where else would he do it but Caulfield?And on Saturday he delivered. The Swan Hill jockey, who concedes 2025 has been a bit of a lean time, was booked for just four rides on Orr Stakes Day and he...

11 Feb 2025
Sport

Record night at Trots with Ultimate Vinnie

IT was anything but a quiet Sunday night as the Swan Hill Trotting Club held its third meeting of 2025, with a new track record mile rate and an abandoned race highlighting the highs and lows of the sport. The highlight was without question the...

10 Feb 2025
Sport

Magic Matty wins for Watson

A PATIENT drive and charge down the sprint lane was enough to secure Merbein driver Kathy Watson this year’s Kiel Tiling Blue Pearl Classic at the Swan Hill Trotting Club’s meeting on Sunday night. Watson, along with trainer-husband Luke...

21 Jan 2025
Sport

Ladie vie for blue pearl event

THE Kiel Tiling Blue Pearl Classic will be held on Sunday and promises an exciting seven-race event and a showcase of women drivers in the sport of harness racing. Swan Hill Trots Club president Noel Watson said the main event was race...

17 Jan 2025
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Fast times at the trots

AN interesting seven-event card of harness racing was held at Swan Hill on Sunday, January 5 with fast times the order of the night. The Braemar Air Conditioning Pace over 2240 metres to start the program went the way of veteran Charlton...

17 Jan 2025
Horse Racing

Travelling circus to see Sanctimonious succeed

THERE’S quite the renaissance taking place at the Uhavta stables of Swan Hill trainer Helen Burns. She is recovering from a double knee replacement, which she says is turning her into a new woman. At the same time, her veteran galloper Sanctimonious...

11 Jan 2025
Horse Racing

Fast times at the trots

AN interesting seven event card of harness racing was held at Swan Hill on Sunday with fast times the order of the night. The Braemar Air Conditioning Pace over 2240 began the program with it going the way of veteran Charlton part-owner/trainer Mark...

11 Jan 2025
Horse Racing

Coffeys golden season sails into 2025

SWAN Hill’s Harry Coffey crowned 2024 the year of his career with a stunning treble at Echuca on New Year’s Eve. It was a great way to celebrate his two Group 1 wins for 2024 and the Caulfield Cup. He has since sailed into the second half of the...

10 Jan 2025
Horse Racing

Swan Hill gallops into Horsham

HORSHAM proved to be a Christmas surprise come early for Swan Hill trainers and jockeys on Sunday. Helen Burns also took that old adage it takes a village to raise a child and turned it into it sometimes takes a committee to win a horse race. Because...

24 Dec 2024
Horse Racing

Coffey show rolls across the weekend

IT was a weekend of classic Coffey - starting Friday night at the Valley and wrapping up in the last at Bendigo on Sunday. And with a triple for his troubles, Coffey cashed in on the absence of rider Daniel Moor at Bendigo with a pick-up ride on...

17 Dec 2024
Horse Racing

Coffey’s pay day

HOW do you turn a $37,500 race into a $120,000 purse for the winner?Simple. You give Swan Hill turf magician Harry Coffey the ride on Heat Missile and point them both to the finish line. Which is exactly what the Griffiths-De Kock stable...

10 Dec 2024
Horse Racing

Hobson stable reigns in rain

HE might have left it late in the day, but trainer Nathan Hobson’s horses came home with a wet sail – literally – at Swan Hill’s races on Sunday. After five races with not much to show, Hobson suddenly had a double, a trifect...

26 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Double shot of Coffey

WHEN it’s the Ararat Cup and more than half of your seven rides for the day – including joint favourite The Genius in the cup – have just been gutted by scratchings, you tend to want to make every post a winner. Harry Coffey headed...

12 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Burns and Hobson’s Cup day delight

GOOGLE Maps says it is 211.7km from Echuca racecourse to the hallowed straight at Flemington, but on Melbourne Cup day, a winner is a winner regardless of which track you are going around. Swan Hill’s Helen Burns and Nathan Hobson...

08 Nov 2024
Horse Racing

Kyneton Cup first for Coffey

HARRY Coffey is fast becoming a cups kleptomaniac. Fair dinkum, give him a saddle, a horse and a cup’s race and get out of the way. Incredibly though, Coffey’s win on New York Hurricane in Wednesday’s $125,000 bet365 Kyneton Cup over...

08 Nov 2024