Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“More than $20 million in annual costs have been removed from RWWA’s operating base over the past 12 months, compared to our 2025-26 budget, with most of these savings already in place and the remainder to take effect from the start of the 2026-27 racing season”, the RWWA CEO proudly boasts. “This disciplined approach has […]
Securing a sustainable future for racing in Western Australia requires clear priorities and disciplined decision-making. Over the past year, the RWWA Board and Executive Team have taken considered action to strengthen Racing and Wagering Western Australia’s financial position and provide greater certainty for the WA racing industry’s long-term sustainability. Resetting RWWA’s cost base As you […]
The bloke in the video above is leading WA trainer Michael Young. Listen to him as he tells the harness media and the public that his 2 runners won’t be trying in their races at Pinjarra on Monday night. Lovely stuff isn’t it? Fortunately for punters who ignored him or didn’t hear this interview, Young […]
The WA Harness Industry, like others Australia wide and probably across the ditch, is on it’s knees, bleeding money, all metrics collapsing, …….turnover, participation, licensed personnel, foal numbers, horse population….you name it, it is in decline. And it is not because of a fuel crisis triggered by you know who in Pennsylvania Avenue. Solution, simples, […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM03042607.mp4 Take a look at Gary Hall Jr’s drive on the 7 A Little Silence in the last race at Gloucester Park last night. It blew from $1.70 out to $2.20. The winner Luvbite firmed $3.30 into $1.80. When you see Hall Jr’s drive you will immediately understand why. The highlight comes in the back […]
Leading WA harness racing trainer Mike Reed has been disqualified for 6 month for his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to Solatol, a human beta blocker used off label on horses as an antiarrhythmic to treat atrial fibrillation. Oddly, Reed did not claim environmental contamination, but rather put evidence before the Stewards ed that […]
WA trot trainer Mike Reed was scheduled to attend in inquiry last Thursday into his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to the banned beta blocker Solatol after winning a race at Gloucester Park in late November. We don’t know whether or not the inquiry proceeded, or whether Reed attended, but what we do […]
Gilbert and my good self wandered over the road to the APG Yearling Sale up at Middle Swan today, keen to see who would be emptying their pockets chasing Harness’s “Clayton’s Pot of Gold”…you know the stakes boost you see when you don’t actually have a stakes boost? With “Diamonds and Pearls” playing over the […]
Archie Regarding the WA handicapping system. Certain very high profile trainers, operating outside established channels, sought and got meetings with certain RWWA Harness officers to specifically pitch for RBD and changes to programming because they and their privileged owners were being made to sing a bit harder for their supper with their NZ imported stock. […]
Hey Archie I can understand why WA doesn’t want to use the national ratings system. It’s an absolute joke. The worst thing I have seen enforced on the industry in my time. Not one trainer likes it or wants it. It’s killing the industry. Written by a World Famous Trainer
