Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Queensland earns roughly$360 million and give about $296 million back to the 3 codes of the industry in the form of prizemoney, payments to riders and drivers, and club funding. RWAA earns circa $540 million and gives back just $203 million to the codes that earn it for them. The marked difference is in […]
Inner Perth land prices have increased by 300% over the past 20 years. By simple (and quite basic) calculations, that would mean that if the land Gloucester Park sits on was worth $40 million in 2002, it would be worth $120 million today. Half of $120 million is $60 million. So why have the club […]
BY MIDYEAR the WA Trotting Association’s 2000 members must decide whether to move from historic Gloucester Park, the home of harness racing in WA for nearly a century, or to take a punt on redeveloping the 14ha site into a pacing and residential complex. The decision has been forced on the association by the realisation […]
Talk about deflection and what a load of crap. Yes there are scientific papers that confirm inconsistent surfaces, and who knows how Oliveris and Young’s home tracks on private property really are, increase the risk of injury, soft tissue injury. There are more scientific papers that confirm that hard surfaces such as the Byford fast […]
Archie In regards to your story about the horse deaths at the Byford training complex in WA. Have you seen Ross Olivieri’s track? It’s inconsistent as hell. Inconsistency is the biggest contributing factor when it comes to injury’s on tracks. As for Michael Young’s mare Eight Carat, have you seen its last few race starts? […]
Dear Archie Let me tell you, there is no one trying to kill off harness racing like GP and RWWA…… GP gifting their land to a developer in return for the “John Burt Memorial Snack Bar” intended to provide nothing for members or race goers, (none of those anyway, the racing is more boring then […]
A couple of days ago we told how the previously healthy pacers Eight Carat, Juggernaut and Steam Punk died in training on the Byford track. Well would you believe it Jesus has turned up and – mistaking them for Lazarus – raised these 3 horses from the dead. The Stewards must have known that the […]
There is something severely wrong with the ancient ‘state of the art’ track at training centre at Byford in Western Australia. Two horses that we know of have died there in the past fortnight, although the good mail is that the real number is three. That’s just in the past month. We know of at least […]
Word filtering out of the Western Australian courts is that Gloucester Park redevelopment opponent Duro Margaretic has lost his Supreme Court action attempting to block the sale of the GP land, with the matter being dismissed by the judge and kicked to touch. The redevelopment plan, including the sale of almost 6 hectares of prime […]
Chris Voak had 2 runners in the last race at Gloucester Park on Tuesday night. One of them was Per Adua Ad Astra, which opened up as the $1.22 favorite. There wasn’t a cent of betting for it. It blew out to $1.85 at start time. The other Voak runner was All Aussie Mach. It […]
