Harness Racing Cadets NZ

21/10/2021

https://www.hrnz.co.nz/news/boom-helps-thornley-close-in-on-goal/

Junior driver Sam Thornley continued his great recent form when Boom lived up to his name at Addington on Thursday night.

16/08/2021

Cadet of the Year 2021
Good luck everyone!!

15/07/2021

Congrats Sarah!!! Fantastic achievement 👏

100 wins for SARAH O'REILLY!

Her favourite horse SUGAR ME gets the job done and even more so fitting that he is trained by Sarah's employees Cran and Chrissie Dalgety!

Congratulations Sarah, we look forward to many more of your milestones!



📷 Sarah with Gerard who is looking proud as punch!

13/07/2021

Good luck to you all :-D

The fields are out for the first two heats of the McMillan Equine Feeds NZ Junior Driver Championship at Addington Raceway!

The fields for the final heats will be out tomorrow so keep an eye on our website!

Who do you think will be leading after the first two heats on Thursday night?

Fields here:
https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/fields/071532fd.htm

21/06/2021

Harness Racing New Zealand and Hygain have announced a new series for Junior Drivers, in memory of Revell Douglas.
https://www.hrnz.co.nz/news/revell-douglas-to-be-honoured-in-new-series/

Harness Racing NZ and Hygain are delighted to announce that the late Revell Douglas will have a new junior drivers series named after him.

15/06/2021

Congratulations to these Junior Drivers and Good Luck for the series :-D

14/06/2021

Crystal Hackett is off to a flyer start in the sulky.

https://www.hrnz.co.nz/news/hackett-off-to-a-flyer-in-the-sulky/

The junior reinswoman recorded her first race win in the sulky at Alexandra Park last week, and it didn’t take her long to return to the winner’s circle, reining home Marathon Man to victory in the John Deere/Agrowquip Mobile Pace (2700m) at Cambridge Raceway on Friday night.

24/05/2021

An interesting video from New Zealand Equine Research Foundation

How often should you deworm your horse? This video is about the latest research into deworming.

22/04/2021

“Tornado Killer” aka Tony

9Y0
Approx 15.2hh
Brown Standardbred Gelding
Mcardle- Unreal Utopia

Don’t be alarmed by the name! Tony the Pony is offered for sale through the HRNZ HERO programme.Tony has been professionally schooled and has been a dream to break in and start. Tony would make a fantastic pony club mount, trekking/farm hack or low level all rounder. He is such a cruisey lad!

Tony is very laid back and a bit of a kick along. He is working in a frame in all three paces and is jumping small jumps confidently. He can canter in a 20m circle on the left rein, still a little unbalanced on the right but pops into canter both ways nicely.

Tony absolutely loves hacking out alone or in company and is happy at the front or the back on the buckle. Tony is sensible, sane and a pleasure to have around. He loves being the centre of attention!

Tony is great natured and fantastic to handle in all aspects. He is great for the farrier, floats or trucks and has no stable vices. Tony is well socialised with other horses. A kind experienced home is essential.

Located in Canterbury

For further information please contact
Anna Bryant
Email- [email protected]
Call or text- 027 768 1493

19/02/2021

Cadets - Here is this weeks The Box Seat for you to watch, if you don't have enough time, then skip to 39mins and watch the interview with HRNZ new CE Gary Woodham :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2LVqam0Cxk

The gavel’s come down on the Auckland sales - we check the huge results for New Zealand Standardbred. Plus we recap all the feature racing from Addington Rac...

07/12/2020

The Canterbury Cadets had a great time at their end of year break-up 🤩

We had a dinner at Winnebagos followed by a competitive night at the escape rooms 👮🏻

How cute are the team photos 🙊

06/12/2020

Well done Daniel! What a start to your driving career 🌟

One for one!
It doesn't get any better than this!

DANIEL ROBERTS gets his first win at his first race day start aboard Safe Zone for Angela Washington!

Well done Daniel, what a start to your race day driving career! We look forward to seeing many more winners for you!

05/12/2020

Today Harness Racing NZ and HERO have teamed up with Love Racing to promote education in our respective industry’s at the Selwyn Equestrian Equine Expo 🐎

30/11/2020

The Southland Cadets had abit of fun last night at our end of year break up‼️

Luckily they all managed to get out of the escape room 🤣

06/11/2020

Congratulations Jordan 🙌

Wow what a first win!

JORDAN SIMPSON absolutely out drove the entire field in race 4 today at Rangiora to get his first driving win and his first training win!

Jordan trained and drove Will He Rock to get the first wins after leading the whole way!

Congratulations Jordan we are sure this will be a special win for you and your family who also own the horse!

12/10/2020

This a fantastic scheme that has been set up for Junior Drivers. They should all be taking advantage of it :-D

https://www.hrnz.co.nz/news/junior-driver-saving-scheme/

The scheme was set up to encourage the junior members of our industry to develop better financial habits and start planning for their futures now. The scheme would ensure that those involved would have some extra savings to launch the next phase of their journey.

01/10/2020

Check out this great educational video on strangles. This is been created by the New Zealand Equine Research Foundation

22/09/2020

The Southland Cadets getting some practice in before the new whip rules comes into play 👏

Thanks to Vinny Munro, Kristin Barclay and Brett Gray for offering their help and advice to the young ones 😇

16/09/2020

Congratulations Max Hill on driving your first winner today. We are sure it will be the first of many! Well done! 👍

Today at Invercargill we also saw another first win for junior driver MAX HILL.

It was Max's 11th race day drive today and he got the win on the Kirstin Barclay and Tank Ellis trained Watch Me Now.

After getting the lead early, Max drove confidently to hold the lead throughout and beat home the hot favourite Burnham Boy.

Congratulations Max we are sure this is the first of many wins for you!

15/09/2020

Congratulations to Johnny Morrison for winning the Junior Driver Premiership at the Annual Harness Racing Awards 🏆

A former Cadet, Johnny was one of the most dedicated and his hard work is definitely paying off 🎉

10/09/2020

The Southerners are flying 🤩

Congratulations Ollie for picking up your first win 🙌

Congratulations to OLIVER KITE who just won his first race in the bike!

Oliver drove Barika for employer Nathan Williamson at Winton today in race 5.

Oliver took out his Junior licence this season and this drive was only his 11th race day drive!

Congratulations Oliver!

07/09/2020

Congratulations to our Southland Cadet Tom Nally for his first win on the track 🙌

Congratulations to TOM NALLY who won his first race in the bike yesterday at Invercargill!

He won race 7 aboard I'm Watching for employer Hamish Hunter!

It was only Tom's 5th race day drive and he managed to get off the fence and come home quickly down the outside to get the win!

Well done Tom, we are sure this will be a day you won't forget anytime soon!


- Keep an eye out on the HRNZ website later today for a story on Tom!

07/09/2020

Last night the Canterbury Cadets enjoyed a horsemanship clinic run by Craig Wiggins 🐴

Craig shared some of his fantastic skills and knowledge with us 💡

Thanks to Selwyn Equestrian Centre for the use of their fabulous facilities and to Smithy our demo pony 🦄

07/09/2020

The Canterbury Cadets had a great night at the Farmlands feed mill last week 🌽

Fiona Gillies, Equine Nutrition Specialist, gave us a fabulous tour showing us the feed making process 👏

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07/09/2020