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Champagne flowed after Southern bred stock conquered all at the national standardbred yearling sales for the second consecutive year

Dec 16 - Michael Guerin and Greg O'Connor bring us this week's Box Seat

This week's Harness Racing Club News from around the country.

The Christchurch sales ring was set alight and an Australasian record for a trotting yearling was smashed when a colt by Love You from Queen Kenny sold for the mammoth price of $280,000 yesterday.

He had to wait 48 hours longer than expected, but Australasia’s best trotter Tornado Valley has snared his eighth Group 1 win.

YOUNG gun Self Assured will have to create history to overcome a horror draw and win Saturday night’s $200,000 Group 1 Chariots Of Fire (1609m) at Menangle.

Auckland trainer Ray Green was the big winner at the Karaka Standardbred Yearling Sales yesterday almost certainly creating his own special piece of history.

Three women passionate about harness racing came together to produce one of the richest standardbred lots in New Zealand yearling history at Karaka on Monday.

Most in attendance at the Karaka yearling sale on Monday probably didn’t realise that American racing royalty was roaming the grounds among them.