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Gloucester Park harness racing review with Ken Casellas Firerockfireroll overcomes disadvantage Victorian-bred pacer Firerockfireroll (Courage Under Fire) overcame the considerable impediment of racing with one hopple a couple of inches shorter than the other to score a superb victory in the $50,000 Allwood Stud Farm Christmas Gift at Gloucester Park on Friday night. He also […]
Harness racing review of Gloucester Park on Friday night (Sep. 30) from Ken Casellas. Girl power reigns supreme The deft skills of Western Australia’s small but richly talented group of female drivers were on full display at Gloucester Park on Friday night when they set a significant record of landing seven winners on a program. […]
New Zealand bred four year old Blitzembye (Bettors Delight) will make his first harness racing appearance in a stand when he begins off the back mark of 20 metres in the 2503m Jim Hand Hall Of Fame Inductee Handicap at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The Bettors Delight gelding notched his eleventh win from 23 […]
Champion harness racing reinsman Gary Hall jnr will be in action in the first nine races at Gloucester Park on Friday night, and he scratched his head when he declared “it’s a hard meeting and I don’t have a stand-out drive. I’d say Master Publisher (A Rocknroll Dance) could be my best.” Master Publisher, prepared […]
Veteran pacer Vultan Tin will resume racing after a six-week absence when he starts from barrier two in the 2536m All Tech-In July We Wear Pink Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night, and star reinsman Shannon Suvaljko is hoping the nine-year-old will end a losing sequence of 10. See fields here. Suvaljko last drove […]
“Nothing ventured; nothing gained.” That’s ace trainer-reinsman Colin Brown’s explanation for his decision to set his smart mare Fifty Five Reborn the task of beating eight geldings and three stallions in the $30,000 Pacing For Pink The Kerry Clarke Four And Five-Year-Old Classic at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “She has raced against the boys […]
Inexperienced youngster Swingband made a sensational debut with a runaway victory at Pinjarra on Monday afternoon, and he looms large as the two-year-old to beat in the $125,000 Choices Flooring Golden Slipper at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Prepared by Baskerville trainer Ryan Bell, Swingband has drawn the prized No. 1 barrier in the Group […]
Flying filly ready to soar “We’ll have a crack,” declared Pinjarra trainer-reinsman Shane Young when he announced that star filly Wonderful To Fly would tackle the State’s best colts and geldings in the $125,000 Choices Flooring Golden Slipper at Gloucester Park next Friday night. Young was on a high after driving Wonderful To Fly to […]
Peterson heads to Sydney Outstanding young West Australian harness racing trainer-driver Corey Peterson will continue his burgeoning career in Sydney as private trainer for prominent owner Mick Harvey. The 20-year-old Peterson will drive across the Nullarbor this week, pulling a float containing smart Harvey-owned pacers Cant Refuse and Runaway Three. He said he was looking […]
Finvarra has Golden Nugget in his sights Exciting young pacer Finvarra remained unbeaten as a three-year-old and emerged as a major player in harness racing’s rich Golden Nugget early next year when he scored a brilliant victory in the $100,000 Westbred Classic for colts and geldings at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The inexperienced colt […]
Rare trifecta to de Campo Capel trainer Aiden de Campo went to the APG yearling sale in Perth last year with the firm intention of purchasing a colt by American stallion Always B Miki, but he was bitterly disappointed when the youngster was withdrawn because of a badly swollen knee, an injury he received a […]
Olivieri bruised but happy Ross Olivieri, an eight-time premier harness racing trainer in Western Australia, was left bruised but extremely happy after Major Times stormed home to score an emphatic victory over champion pacer Chicago Bull in the $25,000 RSM Rotary Club Fremantle Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “From the draws I didn’t […]
