Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Perth real estate agent Duro Margaretic was, until last week, a board member at Gloucester Park. He hadn’t actually sat in on any board meetings for a while, because unlike at Albion Park in highly similar circumstances, the WA club had stood him down. I cannot tell you why for legal reasons. After yesterday’s seminal […]
The disastrous barrier draw for the Quokka 2 weeks ago brought back non-fond thoughts of a previous draw disaster for harness racing fans with long memories. Legendary WA based harness racing historian and writer Alan Parker describes the events of the 1987 WA Pacing Cup catastrophe in his brilliant and utterly unappreciated seminal classic The […]
RACE 9 – TABTOUCH THE NULLARBOR (2536MS) MAGNIFICENT STORM (A Cortopassi) – Driver A Cortopassi was interviewed in relation to his tactics in remaining in a one-wide position in the front straight to receive the bell and not shifting to a three-wide position prior to being covered by LAVRA JOE (C Lewis). Mr Cortopassi explained […]
This mate of mine wants to buy some meat from Magnificent Storm’s owner Rob Tomlinson’s company Regency Foods, but he can’t work out how to do it. My mate also wants to hire Rob Tomlinson’s firm Regency Catering to do look after the food and grog at his daughter’s 18th birthday party in June, but […]
The problem you get when you allow idiots to dream up dumb arse ideas and applaud them is that you always get the right result. A bloody stupid idea that costs a fortune and achieves nothing. Last night’s million dollar slot race the Nullarbor is the case in point. Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) […]
I have watched the replay of last night’s Nullarbor slot race a dozen times, and I still can’t work out what the hell Aldo Cortapassi was thinking with his drive on Magnificent Storm. I’m wasting my time even trying. Some things are just so mad crazy and stuffed up that they are incomprehensible. How can […]
As predicted, everyone is blowing up about the ridiculous decision to partially redraw the barriers for the Quokka after the world class stuff up by RWWA yesterday morning. This is what we said. The partial decision decision was always going to be fraught with problems. Yes it was a no win situation whatever they did, […]
In the stuff up of all stuff ups, betting on Saturday’s new $4 million WA slot race the Quokka was this afternoon suspended pending an inquiry into irregularities with the barrier draw. It turns out what happened is that midway through the draw Uncommon James barrier was by mistake called out as Massimo’s, and all […]
