Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
RWWA’s decision to transfer the scheduled Ascot meeting to Bunbury under its hot weather policy has caused a great deal of upset among trainers from the Perth area and beyond. These trainers are questioning the judgement of the principal racing authority in deciding that it was better to make horses travel 5-6 hours to Bunbury […]
Western Australian buyers cashed up from the mining boom have spent up huge on promising horses from New Zealand in recent years, in the hope of replicating the earlier success of the buyers of star pacers like Imthemightyquinn, King of Swing and Chicago Bull, and were paying seemingly ridiculously high six-figure sums to secure them. […]
When a prominent trot club is racing in extreme heat live on international TV, you’d think the least that they could do between races is to water the track, both to keep the heat down for horses and drivers, and for looks. The Bunbury club obviously didn’t yesterday, and the RWWA Stewards appear not to […]
This is an extract of the financials from the most recent annual report of the Gloucester Park Harness Racing Club, the biggest trot operator in the state of Western Australia. As would appear obvious from the numbers, the club lost almost $400 000 last year. How did they do it? Well the obvious answer is […]
There is yet another cracking – as in breaking, not good – meeting at Gloucester Park in Perth on Friday night. Yet again just five horses have entered for the open class Free For All, and we’ve been lucky to get that, as one of the runners Minstrel has recently been sold to the US, […]
If you ever want to see a set up race watch race 4 at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The two pronounced favourites are the 4 My Ultimate Chevron and the 5 Hoppys Way. Both are easy in the market. The horse drawn 12 Alcopony (pronounced Al Capone Eee) is heavily backed from $15 into […]
The connections of Magnificent Storm mustn’t have won enough by cheating to win the WA Pacing Cup, for now RWWA are holding 4 horse charity events for them. Clearly the owners and trainers are not brave enough to follow in the footsteps of Village Kid, Jack Morris and Im Themightyquinn by travelling back over to […]
Hi Archie I read with interest your story about Race 10 on Friday night at Glopucester Park, and totally agree with you. The driver of the leader Dylan Egerton – Green should get 12 months. It was blatant team driving from the Brown camp, and as you pointed out his sole purpose appeared to be […]
