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Below you find a selection of articles taken from Harness Racing Weekly, Australia's premier harness racing journal. Every Thursday many more great feature articles, harness racing news, breeding information, fields and formguide can be found in Harness Racing Weekly at your local newsagancy.

Sugars in the hotseat

By Michael Court, 5th January 2012

STAR reinsman Greg Sugars will take the reins on Miracle Mile and Victoria Cup winner Smoken Up in Saturday week’s $100,000 South Australian Cup.

Syndicate spokesman Peter Gadsby confirmed the young reinsman, who has carried all before him since he began partnering Sushi Sushi in feature races, would definitely have the drive in Smoken Up’s next major assignment.

But it will only be a temporary ‘substitution’ while trainer-driver Lance Justice recovers from the painful leg injuries sustained in a race fall at Tabcorp Park Melton two weeks ago. more...

Chapple caps off comeback

By Michael Court, 5th January 2012

IT could be a weekend to remember for Guy Chapple.

The Hunter Valley reinsman is poised to complete one of the more remarkable comebacks in harness racing with success in this weekend’s $40,000 Inter City Pace final at Maitland on Saturday night.

Laid up in bed following major heart surgery a couple of months ago, it was feared that Chapple might never return to the sulky.

But his recovery has been amazing and this weekend he gets the chance to fulfil a life-long dream by winning the feature race at this home track. more...

Elvis hits Parkes

5th January 2012

NO, you haven’t gone mad - Elvis will be at the Parkes Showground Paceway next Wednesday (January 11).

That’s the venue for the Parkes Harness Racing Club’s Carnival of Cups meeting, which just happens to coincide with the Parkes Elvis Festival.

It’s an event that sees “crowds from a past era” attend, with patrons encouraged to dress up as Elvis or Priscilla and have some fun. more...

A new beginning - where are we heading in 2012?

5th January 2012

With the start of the New Year, National Trotguide felt it was time to offer you, our readers, something ‘new’ as well.

At the start of each month we will sit down with those that matter at the principal club, the New South Wales Harness Racing Club, who also publish the National Trotguide, and ask them the questions that matter. We’ll try and get you the inside oil, so to speak.

This week we kick the year off with an in-depth Question and Answer session with chief executive John Dumesny. more...