Long time Purdon stable assistant, Brooke Wilkins,has three competitive drives at Alexandra Park in only her second outing on the track on racenight -but in her typically realistic way she is not...

The best news Mark had this week didn't happen at  the Pukekohe trials on Tuesday. It came from a phone call he made on Wednbesday  to check on how Akuta had come through his long awaited return to...

It might seem slightly odd that Brooke Wilkins will make her debut as a junior driver in New Zealand at Alexandra Park on Friday-more than  eight years after her first winning drive in Sydney. Among...

Unbeaten three year old Rubira could pencil in a booking to Queensland for the winter Inter Dominion carnival if he is as forward at the trials next week as Nathan expects. A winter campaign for...

In some ways the forgotten star of standardbred racing,Akuta, is preparing to trial next week at Pukehohe. Racing plans however, are much further  in the future. Akuta has been based at Matamata...

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...