Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX While spectators at Gloucester Park on Friday night were cheering with unbridled enthusiasm at the brilliance of superstar pacer Never Ending’s thrilling win in the Group 3 $50,000 SEFS Preux Chevalier Four-Year-Old Classic, few had the faintest idea of the drama surrounding the WA-bred gelding’s half-head victory. Champion reinsman Gary…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Speedy pacer Hampton Banner is ready to produce a strong performance in the $31,000 SEFSsolutions.com.au Free-For-All at Gloucester Park on Friday night following an impressive effort in a trial at Pinjarra on Wednesday of last week. The New Zealand-bred seven-year-old, trained by Debra Lewis, dashed to the front…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Four-year-old Mister Linton is the youngest runner in the Catalano Truck And Equipment Sales Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night — and with a record of 14 starts, he is easily the most inexperienced pacer in the field. He will be driven by Shannon Suvaljko for trainer…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Contesting a standing-start event will be no novelty for the New Zealand-bred seven-year-old Steel The Show, who will reappear after an 18-week absence when he begins from 10m in the WA Foton Diesel At Catalano Handicap at Gloucester Park on Friday night. A good performance from Steel The Show, trained…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Exciting young pacer Never Ending is the least experienced runner in the group 3 $50,000 SEFS Preux Chevalier Four-Year-Old Classic at Gloucester Park on Friday night when he should tick an important box by winning for the first time over 2536m. The Justin Prentice-trained Never Ending will be…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Boyanup trainer Justin Prentice has always been an astute judge of horseflesh, and his decision to pay just $22,000 for Mighty Ronaldo at the 2019 Perth APG yearling sale has proved a masterstroke. Mighty Ronaldo, now a six-year-old, is proving a remarkable bargain for Prentice and several stable clients, with…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Champion trainers Greg and Skye Bond held a powerful hand in the 2130m Trotsynd Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night with three of the five runners, Thelittle Master (the $1.50 favourite), Thenu Came Along ($3.60) and Prince Of Pain ($9). And Thenu Came Along caused an upset when he…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Tubbs Farquhar lined up as a two-year-old to make his debut in a race at Gloucester Park on April 11, 2017 when he galloped at the start and finished last in the field of eight, 160 metres behind the winner Rock Me Over. Now a healthy nine-year-old, Tubbs Farquhar began…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Well-performed pacer Solesseo Matuca broke through for his first win in Western Australia at his seventh start in the State when he raced without cover before finishing strongly to beat the pacemaker and $1.38 favourite Soho Santorini in the 2130m Bridge Bar Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Solesseo…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Veteran Victorian-bred trotter Aldebaran Sundown notched his first metropolitan-class win when he made the 7Plus Trot a one-act affair at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Aldebaran Sundown trotted faultlessly for Nigel Johns, the renowned trained of square gaiters, with his runaway success which saw him burst straight to the front…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Keeping veteran pacer Acuto in a happy frame of mind is the formula for success, according to the gelding’s owner-trainer Chris Phatouros. Nine-year-old Acuto celebrated his 110TH start by scoring an easy all-the-way win in the 2130m Sky Racing Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night when he was the…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX WA-bred four-year-old Heez Good As Gold is the first foal out of the unraced Art Major mare Front Paige Adda, but he has inherited much of the ability of his maternal granddam, the American-bred mare Paige Nicole Q, who is the dam of seven winners of a total of 80…