Whooshka!
You don’t often see a win like this down the short home straight at Gloucester Park. Wow. Whooshka! Take that.
Every WA Trot Trainer’s Favorite Trick
On Friday night WA trot trainer Kim Prentice joined Gary Hall and Greg Bond in the ranks of slippery customers pulling stooges on the Stewards to manipulate fields in order to get their horses a start. Prentice had two horses in the 3yo fillies race worth $21 000, but when the nominations closed at the […]
Addendum to the Broome Story About Karma
Clive from Cooroy phoned in to tell us that we missed something in our earlier story about karma coming back to haunt Tom Percy KC and prove him wrong. The horse that the high-powered barristers pony on Tuesday in the race that he claimed the apprentice rigged was Money For Old Rope. It came out […]
The Whole Broome Thing is a Beat Up – Apprentice Kristo Sardelic Has Been Most Unfairly Maligned
Much has been made about the ride of WA bush jockey Kristo Sardelic in a race at Broome on Tuesday, after a part-owner of the beaten favorite accused the apprentice of riding crook. It’s a crock of crap in my view, one that would never have been entertained by the Stewards in the manner that […]
HRV is Not Alone
Archie HRV does spend 25% of its income on welfare and integrity. Just not on the horses. It’s spent on the dead wood staff in the offices. RWWA traditionally follows and adopts all its policies (all codes) from Vic. WA harness participants should be very afraid…….. And yes RWWA have bungled an industry land asset […]
Filardo the Flogger and the Six-Year Drought
John Filardo is quite possibly Australia’s most unsuccessful driver. In the almost 25 years of this century Filardo’s had almost 900 drives, and won just 13 races. His record of achievement in the cart over the past 6 years is about exactly the same as famous Frankston racing identity Mandrake the Mug’s record on the punt […]
Onya Bondy – The Great Rock N Roll Handicapping Rort
See the race at the top run at Gloucester Park a fortnight ago? It’s what is called a Conditioned Race. The basic concept behind L5$ 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 […]
WA – The Home of Rorts Pulled by Blokes Named Bond
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 […]
4 1/2 Long Years and 80 Losses Later, the Good Times Finally Roll
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 […]
Albany Turf Club Boss Charged With Fraud
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. […]