Young New Zealander Jack MacKinnon is leaving the Yabby Dam Farms harness racing operation at Cardigan to be stable foreman for prominent Bendigo trainer Kate Hargreaves.
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The 26-year-old was previously a joint trainer with Anton Golino, a partnership struck at the premier trotting racing and breeding stable in October last year.
They shared group 1 success.
"The opportunity came up to go there and give Kate a hand and do some of my own," MacKinnon told thetrots.com.au.
"I thought with the opportunities that I'd been given, if I was going to do it, I might as well do it now.
"Anton and Pat (Driscoll) were really good about it - I had a good chat to them about it - and they were supportive."
MacKinnon trained and drove in NZ before moving to Victoria in 2018 to join Yabby Dam Farms.
MEANWHILE, Golino has multiple group 1 winner Always Ready engaged in the group 3 $24,000 Coulter Crown Trot, 2200m, in Ballarat on Saturday.
Always Ready, which will soon share racing duties with serving at stud, is second-up from a break after finishing sixth in the John Slack Memorial Trotters' Cup in Ballarat on July 30.
He takes on the Andy Gath-trained duo of Havehorsewilltravel and McLovin, which shares the back mark of 30m with John Slack Memorial winner Maori Law.
The 10-race program has been transferred from Melton after a COVID-19 scare at HRV's premier track earlier this month.