More on Kyle Simmington’s Suspension That Isn’t
Hi Archie, In relation to Kyle Symington having his suspension reduced to allow him to drive in the Freo Cup, there is a process in WA called remission. If you receive a suspension and you have a good record you can apply to the General Manager Integrity, Denis Borovica to have your suspension reduced by […]
It’s Not What You Know in the WA Trots – It’s Who You Know
WA harness driver Kyle Simington copped an 8 day suspension at the Gloucester Park meeting last Friday week (12 April) for careless driving causing severe interference to a rival runner that ruined that horse’s chances of winning or placing in the race. It was a fair cop and Symington pleaded guilty to it, but he […]
Our Quick Take on the Nullarbor – Louie Louie, Oh Yeah You Gotta Go
There are only three ways that the million dollar slot race the Nullarbor on Friday night pans out. Scenario 1 Spirit of St Louis kicks up and holds the lead and Jack Callaghan refuses to hand over the front, posting Catch A Wave in the death and putting Hot And Treacherous in the 1-1. Scenario […]
Belle Crosses the Bass Strait and the Blazing Desert Sands to Tell Us How the Nullarbor Will Roll
The Sydney Boys one-two again. Spirit Of St Louis leads early, but I’d say needs cover to be in the finish, for he’s older and not going as good, and had always has been just a half a rung short of the top of the ladder, but you’d love to have him in the stable. […]
Dan Says Its We Who Needs New Glasses
Hi Archie Save your bank for a new set of glasses for yourself re Catch A Wave. His run wasn’t just one of the best runs of the year, but one of the best runs of the decade. You probably don’t appreciate that it is impossible to get around GP when you are three wide […]
Adman Needs New Glasses
I must have been watching a completely different race at Gloucester Park on Friday night than Adman Hamilton, for how else could you explain his assessment that Catch A Wave’s run when beaten by a bunch of WA walkers was a bottler? It wasn’t at all. It was ordinary. Sure Catch A Wave was posted […]
Twenty Years Ago the Developers Were Prepared to Pay Heaps More For Gloucester Park Than They Bought if For Last Year – Something’s Rotten on the Banks of the Swan River
This is an article from a Perth newspaper published in the year 2004. Look at the sums of money being quoted. Almost 20 years later the same developer mentioned in the story bought almost half of Gloucester Park for just $10 million paid in 5 x conditional instalments of $2 million a year and a […]
WA Catch Up With the Times – 5 Years Too Late
In 2019 the national peak body Harness Racing Australia finally listened to the long shouted cries from harness racing participants around the country about the inequities of the then complex handicapping system, and introduced a simple ratings based system akin to that employed at the gallops to address it. From now on horses would be […]
Boom, Out of My Way Atlas! – A $1.09 Fave Gets Knocked Arse Over Tit
This is the 4th race at the Pinjarra trots this afternoon. Atlas the Titan – the horse 1 out and 2 back in the blue and yellow colors of its trainer Gary Hall Jr – is the $1.09 favorite. It has the rights to the spot it’s in. Under the rules anyway. But the driver […]