GAVIN SMITH - RACING STABLES

Chasing the ultimate greatness

If Tuesday was the entree then there’s a real excitement around what Great Things Happen might offer up for the main course today at Addington. Winning Group Ones is special and the enormity of what ‘Teddy’, as he’s known around home, achieved on Tuesday certainly wasn’t lost on Gavin Smith, but there has been one main goal for this early stage of the season with the big son of Love You - winning the Dominion Handicap. Prior to his victory at Ashburton last month, the Trottin

Chasing the ultimate greatness

Stepping out on the biggest stage

It doesn’t get much bigger than this. Harness racing’s biggest day of the year, more than 20,000 people in the crowd and the best horses, trainers and drivers in action. It’s considered an honour by all just to have a horse good enough to race on Cup Day, but this year for Gavin Smith - it’s all the more special. He’ll start runners from his own stable in two of the main feature races of the day while he will also take the reins on others in the day’s two other big races. Thr

Stepping out on the biggest stage

Scarlett Banner puts plans on hold

Victory at Timaru yesterday, has put on hold a likely change in career path for Scarlett Banner. The Gavin Smith Racing Stables trained mare went to the Saturday afternoon meeting at Timaru and her trainer and driver had absolutely no idea what to expect. She’s been disappointing a week earlier. So much so, that Gavin had begun to entertain the idea of trying the mare as a trotter. “That was going to to be the Sunday project with her,” he said. “I had absolutely no idea what

Scarlett Banner puts plans on hold