Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
