Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing August Moon, described by her trainer Luke Edwards as the real deal, gave a sample of her class with a superb victory in the $20,250 Noah George Race Night Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Her victory ended a sequence of four second placings and showed that…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Paroquet, whose first 14 starts, as a two and three-year-old, resulted in just two thirds, at Wagin and Narrogin, has blossomed as a four-year-old and she gave promise of better things to come when she gave a powerful frontrunning performance to win the group 3 Retravision Lewis Pace…
No fast-class event at Gloucester Park on Friday night, but we do see the running of The Lewis Retravision Fillies & Mares Pace (2130m). The Group 3 feature worth $30,000 has attracted a strong line-up. However, members of the WA Trotting Media Guild have sidestepped the main race on the nine-event card when selecting their…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators It’s a race for seasoned oldstagers. That’s the final event, the 2130m Team Bond Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night, with reinsman Dylan Egerton-Green giving Machs Gold a sound chance of winning and ending a losing sequence of 14, which includes unplaced efforts at his past 11 starts.…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators New Zealand-bred six-year-old Vespa has been a wonderful moneyspinner for his team of owners, earning $145,476 from his nine wins and 18 placings in Western Australia, and trainer Michael Young has high hopes the Mach Three gelding will bow out as a winner at his final appearance in Australia.…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Banjup trainer Dylan Egerton-Green has taken over the training of classy filly Zephyra, and he declared: “I think she will be in the mix in Friday night’s race.” Zephyra is awkwardly drawn at barrier six in the opening event, the 2130m Noah George Race Night Pace, and Egerton-Green…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Michael Young will be the busiest trainer at Gloucester Park on Friday night with six runners, and he is bubbling with confidence that Eighteen Carat will shine at her return to racing after an absence of 18 weeks. The New Zealand-bred Eighteen Carat has recovered from a knee fracture…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Highly-promising two-year-old Crowd Control emerged as a leading candidate for the $100,000 Pearl Classic on August 26 when he scored a stylish victory in the $20,250 Garrard’s Service With Integrity Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “He will probably have a week off and then get ready for…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing New Zealand-bred four-year-old Louie The Lip arrived in Western Australia in November 2019 with high expectations. But he had leg problems soon after he joined the stables of Gary Hall Snr, and there were grave fears that he would never be able to race. However, he…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Robbie Rocket, described by Byford trainer Ron Huston as a versatile pacer, but not overly tough, is an excellent frontrunner, who proved his value as a smart sit-sprinter when he won the www.horseandhound.com.sau Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “He is only small, but he…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Few pacers are capable of contesting a spirited and fast lead time and then setting the pace before sprinting home powerfully with final quarters of 28.4sec. and 28.1sec. That’s exactly what trainer Michael Young’s smart five-year-old Beat City did on his way to scoring a most…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Heez Our Perseus, unplaced at his four starts in New Zealand, as a three-year-old in 2018, is proving to be an excellent moneyspinner in Western Australia. The six-year-old gelding was a hot $1.20 favourite from the No. 2 barrier in the 2130m Garrard’s Horse And Hound…