Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Shannon Suvaljko is either: (a) The greatest judge of a close finish in the world; or (b) Overly excitable and prone to going to the early crow; or (c) A bloody idiot. I favour the latter option. What the hell was he doing giving the big whip raised in the air victory salute 10 metres […]
Tricky Ric was a top class Kiwi square gaiter who ran placings in two Group 1 races and ran close up in elite races behind topliners of the ilk of Sundees Sun, Enhance Your Calm and Bolt For Brilliance before he was purchased for a substantial sum by WA interests, and sent over to race […]
DECEMBER 21, 2021 HARNESS On Friday, 17 December 2021 Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) Stewards conducted an inquiry into a report from the RWWA Harness Racing Department regarding the Handicap Win Only Earnings (HWOE) as recorded in the National Harness Racing Database for TRICKY RIC NZ, since that gelding arrived from New Zealand and […]
How does it work? There are two parts to the conditioned racing system. The first part relates to the grouping together of horses based on the stakes they have earned for WINNING races with allowances made for races won as a 2 or 3 year old and limits placed on higher staked races for all ages. This […]
Would you have given the horse coming the widest around the turn any chance in the world of winning from that position on the tight turning Gloucester Park track? Richard Bell is one of the most accurate callers in a race in the country, and he didn’t. I didn’t either. We were both wrong. Gee […]
Well it seems that incompetent Stewarding is like COVID-19. It’s a disease that spreads across the length and breadth of the racing nation. On Friday at Ascot in Perth the runners in the first race lined up in the 2100 metre stalls, and when the starter released them they jumped as one. It was the […]
This is the start of the $50 000 Group 2 Easter Cup at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Our picture is taken exactly at the moment that the starter released the tapes. The horse in the blue off the 2nd row is clearly not in position. The one off the 30m mark is way up […]
We wrote a story earlier in the week about how you would have almost doubled your money if you had laid every odds-on favourite at the Gloucester Park trots over the past two months. Well the run continues. There were 7 favourites on last night’s card that started in the tomato sauce. Four of them […]
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 […]
