Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
John Filardo is quite possibly Australia’s most unsuccessful driver. In the almost 25 years of this century Filardo’s had almost 900 drives, and won just 13 races. His record of achievement in the cart over the past 6 years is about exactly the same as famous Frankston racing identity Mandrake the Mug’s record on the punt […]
See the race at the top run at Gloucester Park a fortnight ago? It’s what is called a Conditioned Race. The basic concept behind L5$ races is to give horses who may be struggling at their HWOE Level a chance to drop into a race where they might be able to earn again and establish […]
You need five horses turn out in a field in harness racing for a race to proceed on a harness race card. So WA trot trainer Greg Bond has the perfect solution to making sure that his two-year-old pacers get a run. He enters five of them in a race. Then when he sees how […]
Who ever named the pacer Good Times Ahead must have been the optimistic horse owner in the world. Or at least it seemed that way coming into the last race at Gloucester Park last night. Good Times Ahead was now 11 years old, and hadn’t won a race since April 2020, the same month that […]
As we foreshadowed in our Tips and Rumors column yesterday, the General Manager of the Albany Turf Club Mark Bayliss (pictured) has been charged by police with gaining a benefit by fraud and attempting to gain a benefit for another by fraud. The offences are believed to relate to his employment at the race club. […]
The news out of Perth from Ernie Manning is that Gary Hall Jr has filed appeals against his pair of 5 week suspensions (with 2 weeks to be served concurrently) imposed by WA Stewards for recent unacceptable drives on beaten favorites You’re So Fine and Wildwest. Hall Jr is also appealing his conviction for the […]
Gary Hall Jr has been handed down a 5 week suspension for unnacceptable driving on Wildwest in the race you see above and below, with two weeks of the five absorbed into a separate suspension for the same offence that he has already on the out for, meaning that for this particular piece of cheating […]
If you stayed up late last night watching the trots you would have seen a very, very promising pacer – possibly even a rising star of the west – win the last race at Gloucester Park. Blackrock is the horse’s name, and gee it looked impressive going to the line under its own steam to […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/NMC25062412.mp4 Did WA’s leading driver take off 3-wide around them at the 800m mark in this race at Northam yesterday because he actually thought cutting out fast final quarter out in nowhere land into the wind would give his $41 shot racing well above its class Malakie the best chance to win? Or did he […]
Team Bond’s horse Advantage was the best named horse in WA the day it ran around and won at Pinjarra, for full of anti-inflammatory drugs that dulled any pain in its legs it had an advantage indeed. Advantage knocked off a $1.45 favorite in winning the Pinjarra race, consigning a huge number of punters bets […]
