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Team Blanchard achieved a special family milestone at Cambridge on Thursday and the head of the clan says there is an unheralded member of their success story.

Champion trainer Mark Purdon is adamant Self Assured is in the best form of his career but he isn’t sure that will be enough to win tonight’s $90,000 Dawson Harford Messenger at Alexandra Park.

Bob Butt is hopeful the real Kikorangi Blue can front up at Addington on Friday afternoon.

Punters are used to superstar driver Zachary Butcher being the man to follow in the sulky at Cambridge but that extend to the training ranks tonight.

Harness Racing New Zealand Chief Executive Gary Woodham will be taking a short leave of absence, after suffering a medical event at work yesterday.

The early signs are very promising for former star Kiwi pacer South Coast Arden in his new home.

With winter fast approaching grass track racing is now on hold till spring.

Ex-pat trainer Brent Lilley was thrilled with Aldebaran Zeus’s draw for Friday night’s $90,000 Peter Breckon Memorial National Trot, until he saw who had drawn inside his star trotter.

Shannon O'Sullivan can't get enough of this country right now.