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Eight-year-old gelding Earl Harbour produced a career best
performance to win the $15,000 Bendigo Bank Bendigo Trotters
Cup (2650m) at Lord's Raceway on the 8th June.
The Peter Manning trained square-gaiter had been beaten in
easier races at recent assignments and Manning said the win
was "a little bit of a surprise." Starting well in the market at
$7.50, Earl Harbour, driven by Kerryn Manning registered its
eighth win for 79 starts and finished strongly to narrowly down
Backas Cobber (Chris Alford) with Tsonga (Nathan Jack) in third
place. The race favourite I See Icy Earl (Greg Sugars) galloped on
the final bend when making its claim for the prize and failed to
beat a runner home. Earl Harbour's winning mile rate was
2:03.7. Earl Harbour now joins an impressive list of Bendigo
Trotters Cup winners which include the Peter Manning trained
champion Knight Pistol (1994), True Roman (1980) Scotch
Notch (1982/83), A Touch Of Flair (2007) and Aleppo Sunrise
(2012). He is also the second son of Earl to win the race, follow-
ing Ella Powell's success in 2009. Three other feature races
were raced at Bendigo.
LEFT: Earl Harbour (Kerryn Manning) wins the
Bendigo Trotters Cup ABOVE: Dennis Bice , Wayne
Tobin and Peter Manning at the presentation
The Bendigo Bank 3yo Trotters Classic was won by
the locally trained The Boss Man. Driven by trainer
Scott Dyer, The Boss Man started the $3.00 race
favourite and was far too good for Invasive (Lance
Justice) and Bellmac Kody (Haydon Gray). The Em-
pire Stallions Vicbred Super Series races produced
two outstanding young winners. Majorlook trained
and driven by Ian Montgomery extended its un-
beaten winning streak to six in the 3yo C&G heat
and Youranut made it five from five for trainer Ross
Sugars and driver Greg Sugars in the 4yo C&G heat.
Bred and raced by Donna Montgomery Majolook is a
son of Art Major and outstanding mare Classic Rain.
Youranut formerly raced in NSW and has now won
six races in succession. The chestnut son of Blissfull
Hall is unbeaten in Victoria.
WINTER 2013 FEEL IT LIVE - Bendigo Harness Racing Magazine
Next time you visit Lord’s Raceway
don’t forget to visit the Library and
Memorabilia Room at the track.
Located under the main grand-
stand next to Garrard’s Horse &
Hound, the Library is building a big
collection of books, photos, racing
silks, vintage race records, trophies
and much more.
The BHRC’s Historian, committee-
man Noel Ridge has taken charge
of the collection and is enthusiasti-
cally managing the project. Each
week something new is donated.
Just recently Mary Sweeney
donated a collection of photos and
trophies won by the great Bendigo
mare Mother Courage.
Anyone is welcome to donate to the
library and historical room.
Noel and BHRC General Manager
David Aldred are also adding new
features to the Bendigo Harness
Racing Club Historical page on the
club’s website.
To view the page simply log onto:
www.bhrc.com.au and follow the
prompts.
Did you know ?
The first official Australian trotting
mile record was achieved at
Epsom near Bendigo on 17-09-
1858
Trotting Match.—A match came off
yesterday afternoon on the Race
Course at Epsom, by Mr.Rankin's
horse Spider.
The match was made in order to
test the speed of the horse, who
accomplished the first mile in four
minutes, and the second in three
minutes and twenty-four sec-
onds—a speed which has not ever
been equalled on Bendigo. The
horse was ridden by Mr. Kettle,
the rider of Rambler.
From John Peck - Editor, Harness
Racing International Magazine,
April 2013
Newsletter Tit le Page 3
A horse named in memory of a little girl with big blue eyes and
pretty ringlets created tears of joy at Bendigo’s Lords Raceway
on Saturday night 25 May 2013.
Four-year-old trotting mare Sophie Gorgeous was named after
Sophie Goss who passed away in her sleep at the age of seven
on June 2, 2009. “Sophie Gorgeous” was there in spirit as her
namesake sprinted from the middle of the field to snatch a sur-
prise victory in race nine at odds of $13. Sophie’s family stood
at the finish line to cheer Sophie Gorgeous home to her first
win. Sophie’s mother Rachel said she was a “special little girl
from day one’’. “We used to say she was gorgeous with her big
blue eyes and ringlets,’’ she said. “She called herself Sophie
Gorgeous.’’ And that was how she would introduce herself to
others. Bendigo horse breeders Denise and Brian Gath heard
about Sophie at the same time one of their mares had a little
filly. “I got to know Rachel when I went to the deli at Coles,’’
Denise said. “Sophie would come up and say: ‘Hello, I’m Sophie
Gorgeous’. She was the cutest little thing.’’ “When Sophie
passed away in her sleep, I told Rachel I was going to name the
filly Sophie. “She asked me if we could call it Sophie Gorgeous.’’
Harness Racing Victoria granted the Gath family special permis-
sion to submit one name instead of the traditional six.
Sophie Gorgeous has started eight times for Ballarat
trainer Brian Kiesey but Saturday night’s win was her
first. “It was an overwhelming sense of emotion – every-
one was in tears,’’ Rachel said. “You could hear the
crowd screaming, and that was us. “We didn’t think she
would go close to winning, then Brian (who was driving)
came home for us. “She just came from the middle and
took off.’’ Bendigo Harness Racing Club general manager
David Aldred said Sophie’s friends and family were ex-
cited by the win. “They let out a big cheer, her mum was
extremely happy,’’ he said. “It’s the type of win you like to
see in racing. There wasn’t a lot of money in it but it
meant everything to a lot of people there. “It was very
emotional – to those people it meant the world.’’ Rachel
said Sophie Gorgeous the horse was beautiful and calm,
just as her daughter was. “It’s nice to say the horse’s
name has meaning behind it and somebody thought of
us when thinking of that,’’ she said. “We’ve never been a
family that had anything to do with horses – it’s a really
warm and fuzzy feeling to know a family we didn’t know
that well would do something like that for us.’’
LEFT: Brian Gath drives Sophie Gorgeous to her maiden win at
Bendigo’s Lord’s Raceway. ABOVE: Sophie Goss who died age 7.
STORY by Nicole Ferrie—Bendigo Advertiser.
He is unbeaten, he is Vicbred and he is a
rising star. Majorlook made it six wins from
six starts with an emphatic victory at Lord’s
Raceway on 8th June in the Empire Stallions
Vicbred heat for 3yo Colts & Geldings. Bred
and raced by Donna and Ian Montgomery,
this son of Art Major and Classic Rain looks
on right out of the box. He is full of spirit and
is living right up to his great pedigree. “Off
the track he is a handful but on the track he
just does everything right,”Donna said.
Majorlook’s dam has had five foals for 4 win-
ners, Promasden, Goldenorro, Madam Altis-
simo and Majorlook. Majorlook could easily
be her best foal with the Vicbred finals still to
come. “We’re excited,” Donna said. Ian Montgomery steers Majorlook to a convincing win at Bendigo
Page 4 WINTER 2013
The Bendigo Harness Racing Committee is embarking on a drive for new Club members
and the Club has a great offer for existing and new members for 2013/14.
Membership fees for the year have been discounted substantially to just $50 and as a
bonus this year the Club will also provide each member with a TROTS CARD. The Trots
Card entitles the Member to complimentary entry to 456 harness race meeting during
2013/14. Do the sums ! That means if you attend each race meeting on the calendar
you will pay just 11 cents per race meeting. On top of the great gate entry offer the BHRC
also provides members with exclusive competition draws, newsletters, invitations to
members only events and priority bookings on feature race nights. Each BHRC member
is also entitled to voting rights at the AGM and General Meetings.
Any small business or
person wishing to become
corporate or private
Sponsorship partner at the
entry level should consider
the Bendigo Harness Rac-
ing Club’s Hot to Trot Of-
fer.
Guaranteed that you won’t
get a better deal than this
anywhere.
For just $200 you get:
A RACE NAME
Your business or personal
name of your choice will
be allocated to an avail-
able TAB race at Lords
Raceway. Race names are
published in the fields in
newspapers and on TAB
charts and on formguides
nationally as well as on
line websites, racing radio
RSN and televised nation-
ally on Sky Racing.
TICKETS
You will receive 6 x compli-
mentary tickets to Lord’s
Raceway so you can bring
your staff, clients, friemds
or family to a night at the
races.
10% DISCOUNT
You will get a 10% dis-
count on our premium
race night dining package.
The dining packages are
just $5 pp and include
track entry, 3 course meal,
a racebook and table ser-
vice to your premium seat-
ing.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Your company or personal
advert will be published in
the racebook on the night
of your race and you will
also have your advert pub-
lished on our website.
WINTER 2013 Page 5
Produced and Edited by DAVID ALDRED - General Manager Bendigo Harness Racing Club Inc.