What’s the world coming to when jockeys have to be paid to promote racing? They used to do it for free, as part of their commitment to the game. Not Willie Pike though. They say he wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning unless there was an earn in it. There certainly was one […]
WA Trainer Kills Four Horses Without Cause and Only Cops a Fine – And He’s a Board Member of a Race Club!
Western Australian gallops trainer Roy Rogers killed 4 horses. At least that’s what the Stewards report said. The word on the ground is that he actually killed 24. These horses weren’t injured or anything, not to the point that they had to be put down. They just weren’t much good, and Rogers didn’t want to […]
Belle Dissects the WA Pacing Cup
Belle from Burnie has written in with her take on this year’s $450 000 WA Pacing Cup. As always its an intelligent assessment, and a very interesting read. PT = PINNY TIGER JJM – JUMPINGJACKMAC MS – MISTER SMARTEE JNR – GARY HALL JR, DRIVER OF MISTER SMARTEE TB – TENZING BROMAC CR – CAPTAIN […]
The Greatest Conflict of Interest in WA Harness Racing Since the One Before
The Western Australian stewards decision to allow Chris Voak to drive the Michael Brennan trained Pinny Tiger in tomorrow night’s $450 000 WA Cup instead of driving the horse he trains himself in the race Sangue Reale flied in the face of the spirit and intent of the rules, and quite frankly defies belief. The […]
What Do You Think?
I’m not sure whether it’s just me, or whether I am being unduly influenced by the price fluctuations when forming my suspicions, so I will ask you for your opinion. Did the ride on the 2nd horse over the concluding stages look a bit odd? The winner had been backed from $5.50 into $1.85. The […]
Have the Gloucester Park Members Been Conned and Robbed?
What you see marked in red on the map is a 1016 square meter parcel of vacant land advertised for sale in Wickham Street, East Perth for a price of $2.8 million. That price represents an indicative land value of $2775 per square meter for the area. The oval to the far right of the […]
The Gloucester Park Land Sale Always Stunk Like Fish – Now the Odour’s So Strong You Can Smell it All the Way From Albany
Gloucester Park has a few problems if their CEO Michael ‘Boo’ Radley can’t remember the name of the development company headed by their former Vice-President Kevin Jeavons son Kyle that the club sold $60 million worth of prime Swan riverside land to without a public tender for $10 million paid in five yearly instalments of […]
GLOUCESTER PARK SALE – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (First Published 18 August 2022)
This below is the information being circulated to members by the club about the proposed sale of club land. Read and digest it, and we will throw you a few extra questions soon. What are Members being asked to vote for? The GPHR Executive Committee has begun a formal process under the Club’s by-laws to […]
Kingston Town Can’t Win – Rock of Kaha Can’t Either
The caller at the WA country track at Moora on Saturday did a Bill Collins. “Rock of Kaha can’t win!” he cried. Famous last words, even if we did all agree with him when they were uttered. Watch this. Wow. I don’t think we’ll hang him for that one. PS – You can buy the […]
The WA Stewards Would Have to be Kidding
Have a look at the finish of this race from the side-on view (above). Then have a look at it from the head-on (below). The runner-up protested against the winner alleging interference 0ver the final stages. On what you’ve just seen it was a certainty to be upheld. But not in WA. The Stewards there […]