{"id":65399,"date":"2025-08-14T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:36:18","slug":"our-harmony-aiming-to-go-back-to-back-at-cambridge-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65399\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Harmony aiming to go back-to-back at Cambridge tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        14 August 2025<\/p>\n<p>                                , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnz.co.nz\/news\/category\/punters-info\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Punters Info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jordyn Bublitz\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our Harmony looks to double down on her debut success at Cambridge Raceway tonight as she lines up in Race 3, the Equine Specialists \u2013 Here For the Horse Mobile Pace (6.22 pm).<\/p>\n<p>After striding to victory at the same venue last month, her connections are hoping she can take another forward step in what is still a very early stage of her racing career.<\/p>\n<p>Handled in her day-to-day training by Graeme Rogerson\u2019s stable foreman James Stormont, the three-year-old daughter of Bettor\u2019s Delight showed plenty of ability first up, but it\u2019s taken some time to get her there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s been a bit of a struggle,\u201d Stormont admits, \u201cshe took quite a lot of time and mileage to settle down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known around the barn for her spirited personality, Our Harmony is owned by the Woodlands Partnership No.3 Syndicate and only qualified as a late two-year-old before being given a well-earned three-month spell. In her current prep, she again showed flashes of her quirky nature, with Stormont describing her as \u201ca runner\u201d \u2013 headstrong and full of energy.<\/p>\n<p>But she turned heads at her sole trial at Pukekohe leading into her debut, winning comfortably, and showing she was ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did the typical Bettor\u2019s Delight thing and stepped-up big time,\u201d says Stormont.<\/p>\n<p>That form translated to race night at Cambridge on July 17, where Zachary Butcher stepped in for Stormont, who was out with injury at the time. The filly took the lead early and controlled the race throughout to score a convincing win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe surprised me with how she stepped up at her trial, I was hoping for another surprise that night and I got it,\u201d Stormont says. \u201cZach did a great job with her, really looked after her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spike in temperature proved to be a setback and saw her scratched the following week, so Stormont opted to give her a light freshen-up. Since then, she\u2019s been back in work under a new training regime and is reportedly thriving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve changed her work around since she last raced, and she seems to be jumping out of her skin at this stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, she steps up again, drawn wide and back in the hands of Stormont himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be happy if she behaves herself,\u201d he says, \u201cwe\u2019ve drawn wide, so we\u2019ll just have to see how things play out early. If everything goes to plan, she\u2019s capable of running in the money, and she\u2019ll only improve the more she races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the team behind her, tonight is less about pressure and more about progress, but it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see Our Harmony add another strong performance to her growing resume.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s currently a $3.60 second favourite, behind the Jeremy Young-trained Mantra ($2.35).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 August 2025 , Punters Info By Jordyn Bublitz\u00a0 Our Harmony looks to double down on her debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}