THIS week’s harness racing column resembles an edition of Who Do You Think You Are? as my inquisitive mind takes me on a journey from Hamburg to Carlanstown, Co Meath to North Wales to the trotting tracks of North America.

Some of the most unusual entries of the early volumes of the British Harness Racing Club stud books were those of several prolific broodmares bred by a Capt Johannes Kölln of Drakerath Stud, Navan.