It is a lower key week for the Purdon stable after last week's highlights (and lowlights) and with the Rolleston stable now at an end and the gradual transfer to Auckland, Nathan is looking to his...

PIC:MARK'S MASTERPIECE   As the Purdon era ends at Rolleston with Hayden and Amanda Cullen taking over until the most successful training base in South Island harness history  bows finally to...

There have been many magical moments for Mark in his close to 3000 wins as a harness trainer but not many more memorable than posting his first with a thoroughbred in Auckland on Saturday-at his...

While most top drivers will say they are going into the race without locking in a plan and let events dictate there is usually more to the story. What they usually mean is that they have narrowed it...

Nathan is still the inter-island trainer based at Pukekohe but he's been keeping a weather eye on the the several southern runners this weekend from Friday at Addington to Kindergarten Stakes day in...

RUBIRA , apparently unaware of how important racing this Friday was, was forced to miss his engagement at Auckland on Friday after a training mishap but Nathon is fairly hopeful it will not deflect...

Purdon Racing seems super confident lining up a first starter PARAMOUNT PICTURE in a race against winners. The bookmakers and the punters haven't missed her ($5) but Nathan is taking a long term...

CHASE A DREAM makes his debut in the ownership of Mark and Chris Ryder at Alexandra Park and according to Mark is about "85 percent" ready for the task. "He hasn't trialled,mainly because it is not...

Don't Stop Dreaming is pressing on with  his Sydney campaign in spite of a disappointing last 200 in the Grp 2 Cordina Group Sprint at Menangle on  Saturday.Nathan believes not too much should be...

Nathan is fresh off a big Sales week about which he is very happy but there is a word of warning regarding some of the team racing in New Zealand this weekend. "Looking forward to it but we have...

It had to happen sometime. But it is still a milestone. For the first time in what seems a whole era, Mark Purdon will not attend the southern section of the New Zealand Bloodstock Standardbred on...

Sticking strictly to the timetable experts advised from beginnning, Mark has Akuta back in work -exactly 12 months after being sidelined with a tendon injury that threatened to end his career. "He...