Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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
Back in late 2023 and early 2024 the peak body Racing and Wagering Western Australia commissioned former Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny to conduct a review of the WA harness handicapping system, with the aim of increasing betting turnover to ensure the future sustainability of the sport. Dumesny recommended a few things, but the […]
I wish I could have got $263.40 about Siangdi in the last at Gloucester Park last night. It would have been the overs of the century, Siangdi started at $3.20. Go HRA. There is nothing like a control body on the ball.
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM16012601.mp4 The one to watch in this race from Gloucester Park last week is the 6. That’s Not My Gait is its name. It wasn’t its gait either. This was a trotters race. It paced the whole way. RWWA Stewards should have disqualified it immediately. They didn’t, because they missed the wrong gait completely, even […]
Good Morning Archie, Frank from Fremantle is spot on about the Pearl and the Diamond swallowing up $300k……$300k that in reality comes from robbing the poor to feed the rich. There is a massive transfer of wealth occurring in WA Harness. Outer country clubs had $2 grand taken from their feature race each week…..$8,000 down […]
So WA announces stakes increase prize money for 2 year old racing. No, it is for 2 races that the idiots running the sport have increased by $300,000 total. That in a time when metro prize money has been reduced to $21,000, for most races. So 2 owners benefit, while the majority lose out. Why […]
Racing WA has announced a significant boost to two-year-old harness racing prizemoney, reinforcing WA’s position as the leading jurisdiction in Australia for juvenile standardbreds. From 7 August 2026, the 2YO Diamond (Fillies) and the 2YO Pearl (Colts and Geldings) will each increase from $100,000 to $250,000 to be the richest single-sex two-year-old harness races in […]
Harness racing in Western Australia is in a world of pain following the state government’s announcement of the Financial Sustainability and Governance Review of racing. It is not particularly clear at this stage what exactly the review is all about, other than that it is not about jockey or animal welfare, but rather to “ensure the […]
