Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Everyone imagines that harness racing in Perth is flying, and until an hour ago I did too. Why wouldn’t you? The prizemoney is up there with the best in the country, the two feature races are worth three-quarters of a mil, the horses are strong, and the owners are cashed up and willing and ready […]
A koala is a protected species. Kangaroos are culled. The leading WA harness driver of the past two decades Gary Hall Jr is a koala. For reasons unknown the WA Stewards treat Hall as if he is untouchable, and must be protected at all costs. Emily Suvaljko is the brightest young driving talent seen in […]
RACE 2 – FARMLOCK FENCING ONLY AT DTS! PACE (2130MS) HEEZ OUR PERSEUS NZ (G. Hall Jnr) – Tightened and carried over the marker posts and raced roughly leaving the back straight on the first occasion. A post-race veterinary examination revealed the gelding to have an elevated heart rate and to be slow to recover. […]
Heez Our Perseus started at the prohibitive odds of $1.05 in the 2nd race at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Gary Hall Jr slaughtered it. It was a master class in how to get a long odds on favourite beaten, sheer genius in fact. The WA Stewards deemed that he was just unlucky, and blamed […]
Want to see a team driven race fix? Bridgetown in WA, wherever the hell that is, race 7. Trainer Ryan Bell has two in the race. One of them is Hillview Bondi, the favourite drawn in 1 that has blown from $1.12 to $1.25. Bell drives it. The other is number 6 Sound Wave, that […]
C.C. Chevron is a ten year old pacer, which is pretty old in racing terms. The aged gelding is also Australia’s most over-raced horse. In the past 52 weeks he has raced 62 times, which is a hell of a lot of racing in any person’s language. That’s one issue, but not the main one. […]
Poor Emily Suvaljko. She thought she was home 20 metres out from the finish of Perth’s richest and most prestigious race the WA Cup, and in a rush of premature excitement she turned to the camera and the stand and gave the world the raised whip twirl salute in celebration. You know what thought thought […]
There were six starters in race one at Gloucester Park last night. Donald Harper trained three of them. One was backed like there was no tomorrow. It was drawn 2, and lead easy. Its stablemate slipped into the death, and the other stablemate jagged its back in the 1-1. Game over. Except for one thing. […]
Silly Willie Pike will be finished as a jockey in his home State once the law kicks in, and many others in both codes will find themselves in the same basket. The vaccination status of his main stable, the leading training partnership Grant and Alana Williams, is unknown but the former pink and whites have […]
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
