BY MICHAEL GUERIN Prime Power may have got the most important job done at Alexandra Park last Friday but better things lie ahead.  That is the opinion of trainer Todd Mitchell after his favourite horse helped him to the 1000-win winning drives milestone last week.  The milestone could have come in less glamorous circumstances as…

Mitchell Robertson Racing stewards praised the heroic efforts of top reinsman Todd Mitchell after he chased and caught a horse whose unconscious driver was being dragged after a sickening crash. James Stormont was knocked out when his horse American Angel hung out badly on the home turn of the Starfish Pace at Alexandra Park on…

Mitchell Robertson The Steven Reid trained Easy On The Eye backed up his super third to Terror To Love in the 5YO Emerald with a brilliant win in last night’s 2013 Auckland Trotting Club Winter Cup ($20,000). Starting from the 35 metre back mark, Easy On The Eye looped the field and worked his way…

Harnesslink Admin 01-Jun-2013 They won the New Zealand Cup with Homin Hosed in 1999 and now some 14 years later Todd Mitchell has combined with Prime Power and Bryan and Marilyn Macey to claim their first Harness Jewels title. The trio achieved that feat in today’s (Saturday June 1)$100,000 Yaldhurst Hotel Ruby for 3yo trotters.…

Harnesslink Admin 08-Mar-2013 It’s been a couple of years between drinks but two of the North Island’s top horseman have experienced Group One harness racing glory at Alexandra Park tonight (Friday March 8). Trainer Gareth Dixon and reinsman Todd Mitchell achieved that feat when Cyclone Prince won the Group One $100,000 Breckon Bloodstock Young Gun…

Harnesslink: Mitchell Robertson 08-Feb-2013 Todd ‘the wizard’ Mitchell was reunited with that magical winning feeling Yesterday (Thursday February 7) When he reined home his first winner since returning from a nine-month bicarbonate related suspension. The elusive win Mitchell has been looking for, for the past four-meetings, came at the second-day of the Manawatu harness racing…

Harnesslink Admin 17-Dec-2011 It’s been 13 months but the wait was well worth it. November 2010 was the last time the Michelle Wallis and Todd Mitchell harness racing duo combined to win a Group race. Tonight (Friday December 16) at Alexandra Park Manchester lass upset the applecart in the Group Three $25,000 Northern Breeders Stakes.…

…..read the press release of 2/3/11 here (PDF required)

Harnesslink News Room 21-Jan-2011 NZT Of all the harness racing owners that competed at Alexandra Park tonight (Thursday January 20) none deserved their win more than the Australian-based Cold Mountain Stud. Thirteen of the Queensland company’s horses drowned in last week’s floods, but thankfully its 2010 New South Wales Trotter-Of-The-Year My High Expectations was campaigning…

It might not have been the NZ trotting Cup but it was another Group One race that has given Todd Mitchell another notch in his driving belt, when he drove Ima Gold Digger to an easy 4-1/2 length win of the SEELITE WINDOWS & DOORS NEW ZEALAND TROTTING FFA MOBILE (Gr1) FFA, 2600m. Todd has…