Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie If you have nothing to do, take a gecko at Race 7 at Pinjarra on Monday….Koolbardi Navajho….some performance from her, heavily supported favourite. Best mare in WA. Draws outside front line, drops back to last. Malakie driven by Kamikaze Symington, against the instructions of the connections (see stewards report) charges from the 1200m under […]
Last year the then stood down Western Australian Trotting Association (WATA) member Duro Margaretic launched legal action seeking to have the association’s referendum of members on the issue of selling circa 5 hectares of its 14 hectare holdings in and around the Gloucester Park track to a property developer for $10 million paid in 5 […]
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 […]
