Exceptional trotter Speeding Spur could be away from the track for up to a year.

Fans of trotting hero Monbet had two reasons to celebrate last night.

The champion trainer and partner Natalie Rasmussen pulled off another group race domination job, winning all four feature races they had runners in, with Lazarus.

Last season's champion three-year-old trotter Speeding Spur is in for a trial by fire this weekend.

Smolda led a complete Kiwi domination of their Australian rivals over the weekend.

The giant trotter won his second Dominion in two years, his manners and Jones's perfect rating of him in front meaning Addington's greatest trot was over as a contest a long way from home.

Petite One might not be big but she is quick.

The gamble of a lifetime paid a history-defying dividend when Kerryn Manning became the first woman to win the $750,000 New Zealand Trotting Cup yesterday.

Kerryn Manning has been flattered but slightly bemused by the Michelle Payne comparisons leading into tomorrow's $750,000 New Zealand Trotting Cup.

Paul Nairn has never been scared to try something different with his never-ending production line of top trotters.

The accident looked shocking on two levels - not only Ottley's brutal landing but fellow driver Natalie Ramussen being run over by three horses.

Serious Satire ends the season as the champion filly with a determined win in the Gold Trail Stakes.

Paul Nairn's confidence heading into the Breeders Crown has been boosted by a stunning private workout from Conon Bridge far more than the colt's previous huge wins.

Harness racing clubs are facing major changes under a radical new plan to reduce industry costs.

Champion reinsman Dexter Dunn says walking away from the chance to break the national record for wins is easier for him that it would be for another driver.

Injured star Cambridge horseman David Butcher is on the improve after a horror accident that could see him in hospital until next season.

Two future superstars of harness racing stole the show at Menangle yesterday in the rich finals of the NSW Breeders Challenge for 2-year-olds.

Sunset is far away for an industry that deserves and earns the government support it gets, writes John Allen.

The bookies may have abandoned Dalton Bromac heading into the $100,000 Taylor Mile but trainer Brendon Hill is unfazed.

Returning pacer Messini has had his second win of the week even before contesting Friday night's $100,000 Taylor Mile.

A stalwart of the racing industry among those facing claims of a $30 million pokie fraud has spoken of the sport being starved of cash.

A former chairman of Harness Racing NZ and three others have been charged over an alleged $30m pokie fraud, in the biggest case ever of its kind outside of a casino.

A new $205.4 million urban village with almost a half-hectare shopping precinct and 231 apartments is to rise in an Auckland horse racing club's carpark.

Robert Dunn sees a silver lining to Franco Nelson's controversial Miracle Mile snub.