Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I must have been watching a completely different race at Gloucester Park on Friday night than Adman Hamilton, for how else could you explain his assessment that Catch A Wave’s run when beaten by a bunch of WA walkers was a bottler? It wasn’t at all. It was ordinary. Sure Catch A Wave was posted […]
This is an article from a Perth newspaper published in the year 2004. Look at the sums of money being quoted. Almost 20 years later the same developer mentioned in the story bought almost half of Gloucester Park for just $10 million paid in 5 x conditional instalments of $2 million a year and a […]
In 2019 the national peak body Harness Racing Australia finally listened to the long shouted cries from harness racing participants around the country about the inequities of the then complex handicapping system, and introduced a simple ratings based system akin to that employed at the gallops to address it. From now on horses would be […]
This is the 4th race at the Pinjarra trots this afternoon. Atlas the Titan – the horse 1 out and 2 back in the blue and yellow colors of its trainer Gary Hall Jr – is the $1.09 favorite. It has the rights to the spot it’s in. Under the rules anyway. But the driver […]
Relating to matters at the start and during the race 162. (1) A driver shall not – (n) take or attempt to take an unfair advantage in a race; (u) drive in a way which causes or could cause interference or jostling; (www) allow his horse to shift ground in a manner which impedes, hinders or advantages […]
We wrote earlier about the rules being bent to allow Gary Hall Jr drive horses in races trained by others against his own horses that he trains, and here we have another example, again from Friday night. Gary Hall Jr’s (Junior’s) father Gary Hall Sr (Senior) is one of WA’s leading trainers. Junior also holds […]
152 Priorities concerning horse to be driven (1) The owner or trainer of a horse in a race shall not drive any other horse in the race except with the permission of the Chairman of Stewards. (2) A person who owns or trains more than one horse starting in a race and who desires to drive […]
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 […]
