Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Western Australian harness racing participants don’t know whether they are Arthur or Martha at the moment. The people who run the government appointed peak body Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) never have. RWWA sees the future of the sport to be continuing to race at Gloucester Park. It also believes that it a grand […]
Do I have to catch you outTo know what’s on your mind?Well, Cleopatra died for EgyptWhat a waste of time White ones and red onesAnd some you can’t disguiseTwisted truth and half the newsCan’t hide it in your eyes RACE 5 – LORD MAYOR’SCUP (G3) PACE (2130MS) General: Stewards completed the adjourned inquiry into the […]
It’s no secret that WA drivers Gary Hall Jr and Maddie Brown are partners in their personal lives, which is why that when Hall does something in a drive on track that advantages Brown to the exclusion of everyone else it attracts so much scrutiny and why people are wont to question Perth’s leading driver’s […]
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t see driver Aiden De Campo trying to activate any gear on the horse outside the leader Navy Street when his foot slipped and made contact with its hind leg in the straight in this race at Gloucester Park on Friday night. What I saw was a driver […]
Punting on the trots is an activity full of misfortune and hard luck tales. Sometimes however the luck turns the poor moth ridden mugs way. Tuesday night in Perth was one of those times for the punters who backed Lucksafortune and Always Be Teddy. Neither of them quite scored up properly, but after the pole […]
In mid 2022 the Gloucester Park trot club agreed to sell 5.9 hectares of its prime inner city land around the race track for just $10 million paid in 5 yearly tranches of $2 million each, and the construction of a new grandstand that it wouldn’t have needed if it hadn’t sold the part of […]
Just take a look at this start of the 6th race at Albany in WA on Friday night will you? The horse named Hope in the purple and yellow colors wheels around and breaks through the tape, but instead of calling it a false start which it is, the starter lets them go. As a […]
Just when about the whole WA harness industry is coming out of the woodwork and pronouncing trots in the state dead, Gloucester Park pops up with a ten race card tonight with all but one of them having full fields. This is the type of thing that the sport in west needs. Big cards with […]
Good Morning, I think you have made an error re Village Kid winning all three races in 1986 when you rightfully called out Hamilton for not doing his homework. Phil Coulson never drove Village kid to win the Miracle Mile. Village Kid did indeed win the Miracle Mile (24.01.86), the Hunter Cup (08.03.86) and the […]
The decision of a bunch of ignorant bumblebees decided to schedule the $1.25 million harness slot race in the window as New Zealand’s far more prestigious $1 million slot race The Race By Grins has left the race that was supposed to revive WA harness racing bereft of quality runners, and as barren as the […]
