Sport
26 September, 2025
NcNaulty stable has Outmazing week
The winner, whose previous success was back in October 2023 at Ballarat was having just his fifth start for the McNaulty’s.
DESPITE being on one of the outsiders in the field Bendigo driver Sean O’Sullivan was able to use the dazzling early speed of the New Zealand bred pacer Outmazing ($18) to give him his second winning drive in under a week for the Shaun and Jason McNaulty stable.
From barrier five the 5yo gelding easily crossed the horses drawn on his inside to find the front before the first turn at Stawell last week and then paced sub thirty second quarters for the 1785m race to win by 8.6m rating 1.55.6.
The winner, whose previous success was back in October 2023 at Ballarat was having just his fifth start for the McNaulty’s.
Trainer John Tormey combined with driver Jack Laugher for a win with the high speed trotter Karbine at Bendigo on Wednesday.
The 3yo by Skyvalley NZ has now won two races with both the winning mile rates being just a tick over two minutes.
At Mildura on Friday the trainer/driver combined to take out the Langtree Ave Butcher Pace with the 11yo Letsrockletsroll who has now won 22 races and $230,364 in prizemoney.
Charlton driver Luke Dunne won one race at Mildura to take his seasons tally to 73 wins, equalling the 19-year-old’s best season with over three months left of this year and Ellen Tormey won a race to give her 98 successes so far this season.
Ballarat on Thursday night was the venue for the Michael Gadsden trained Obsydian to break its maiden status. Driven by Luke Dunne the lightly raced 5yo, who has only had fourteen career starts, started a $4.60 favourite from a favourable draw in a very even field.
Charlton was the best attended of the three HRV Roadshows last week with Kilmore and Terang being the other venues.
There weren’t many at the Kilmore show but it was live streamed so hopefully reached out to the masses who were unable to or couldn’t be bothered attending in person.
One of the attendees at Kilmore was the former HRV board member Carl O’Dwyer who was a member of the board when the move was made to Melton with the aim of it being Harness Racing’s forever home.
The feeling was that they needed something of their own after decades of being used by organisations that contributed little to the sport. The land around the facility was supposed to be a nest egg for the future.
There is no doubt that HRV are working hard to repair the gate after the horse has bolted but there has not been much, or any, discussion on why the horse bolted.
Charlton race next Monday and Bendigo on the Wednesday night.
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