DragonMaci Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 (edited) I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about harness racing. If you do, can you please post that information here? I am considering harness racing as a career and cannot find much useful information on it. Edited May 1, 2009 by DragonMaci Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about harness racing. If you do, can you please post that information here? I am considering harness racing as a career and cannot find much useful information on it. http://www.harnessracing.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness_racing http://harnesslink.com/harnesscentral/ http://harnesslink.com/www/Home.cgi http://www.hrnz.co.nz/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harn..._in_New_Zealand http://horseracing.about.com/od/harnessrac...ness_Racing.htm http://harnessracingblog.com/ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/.../harness-racing http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Equ...Harness_Racing/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhuge Niu Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 It would sound really cool if they called it chariot racing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Don't they have Google in New Zealand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 "Harnesses of Fire" doesn't have the same ring to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaci Posted May 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 http://www.harnessracing.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness_racing http://harnesslink.com/harnesscentral/ http://harnesslink.com/www/Home.cgi http://www.hrnz.co.nz/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harn..._in_New_Zealand http://horseracing.about.com/od/harnessrac...ness_Racing.htm http://harnessracingblog.com/ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/.../harness-racing http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Equ...Harness_Racing/ I will look into them. Hopefully they have general information that is useful regardless of one's nation. Thanks. Don't they have Google in New Zealand? I failed to find anything useful to me using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 (edited) No, Google got outlawed last year. It er..infringed on the "welfare" of..er snails. Yeah thats is it. Seriously though, assuming Kane did a Google NZ search it often returns quite different results. Well OK, sometimes for some keywords it often does. Do you think you might write about that too one day? It might be interesting... Edited May 6, 2009 by Prometheus98876 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaci Posted May 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Seriously though, assuming Kane did a Google NZ search it often returns quite different results. Well OK, sometimes for some keywords it often does. That and maybe I used worse search terms than West did. Do you think you might write about that too one day? It might be interesting... I am actually considering changing my story about the galloper to one about a harness racing (probably a pacer and not a trotter; pacers go slightly faster). Harness racing horses tend to race till an older ages than gallopers (standardbreds have stronger bones than thoroughbreds, which have weaker bones than other horse breeds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 True, perhaps you just did not select the correct search terms. This story about the galloper is the story you told me about that time some time back I assume? If I remember the details as well as I think I do (not all that well sadly), that might work pretty well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaci Posted May 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 This story about the galloper is the story you told me about that time some time back I assume? If I remember the details as well as I think I do (not all that well sadly), that might work pretty well! Yes, it is. At least if you mean the one with the mare that doesn't do very well at first, but then new owners and a new trainer get her and she eventually becomes one of the greatest champions ever. I think it would work better with a harness horse. The problem with a gallops horse is that I couldn't get enough story given how short their careers asracers are (though sometimes they have different careers afterwards), but with a harness horse I can get more career and more story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaci Posted May 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 No, Google got outlawed last year. It er..infringed on the "welfare" of..er snails. Yeah thats is it. That sadly isn't too far out for NZ as you know. I am glad harness rcing hasn't been banned for harming carnivorous snails like that mine was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaci Posted May 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 From what one of my tutors tell me Harness Racing New Zealand's website hs more information than I thought, but it's just that it isn't easy to navigate. I will try that as well as the links West said. I hope it has general information. For now I want to know generals about the sport not specifics relevant to any particular country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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