It's a busy life at any time being a horse trainer.But it is especially so when you are running racing squads on both sides of the Tasman. Nathan has been in Brisbane this preparing Treacherous Love...

Olivia Thornley  is saying goodbye to the Purdon racing complex at Rolleston after eight and a half years- with grateful thanks rather than regrets. “I start on the 24th with Hayden and Amanda...

“Jimmy” Self Assured and “Jimmy” Stephens, best mates for years, are to be together again.But in a new "Home James" Self Assured,one of the most accomplished pacers of the modern era, was retired...

Pic: Linda Lovegrace as a Mum. She was a Group 1 winner on the track and there are hopes a daughter could match her During the week we ran a nice story about how O Baby's daughter Treacherous Baby...

MAJOR HOT and TREACHEROUS BABY will be the Purdon Racing duo heading to the Constellations Queensland Harness Carnival that peaks on July 27 when a new two year old slot race the $500,000 Ladbrokes...

In what could be a major boost for all of harness racing, champion filly ,MILLWOOD NIKE, is to return to work at the end of June hopefully headed for a spring campaign as a four year old. "She has...

Many bemoan the fact that open class racing is not what it was in its heyday when horses re-appeared year after year to try and achieve a major Cup race. SELF ASSURED is not part of that...

The backgrounder we ran in 2023 without quite the right result. Maybe this year Self Assured’s Auckland Cup Challenge.  Self Assured on Friday attempts to become the first horse of a dozen dual...

The Auckland Cup has been decided to be a bridge too far for brilliant four year old DON'T STOP DREAMING and Mark and Nathan have sent him for a spell. "He will have six weeks out and then we will...

THROWYAARMSAROUND ME has been a "shuttle" horse for Purdon Racing in recent times but he is an export horse after racing at Addington on Friday. And Nathan rates him probably the best chance for the...

Mark heads into the Roy Purdon Memorial at Auckland with mixed feelings on Friday but  is not so apprehensive about the chances of top trotter OSCAR BONAVENA. In fact he thinks he is right back to...

Favourite punters can take heart from  superstar driver Natalie Rasmussen’s description  of Don’t Stop Dreaming’s below par run two weeks ago  as a “one off”. She has no fears that the hotshot four...