Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Brilliant mare Steno is being set for the $50,000 Lombardo Pace next Friday week after she maintained her grand form in winning the $50,000 group 3 Lord Mayor’s Cup over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Trainer Jocelyn Young sent Steno, the $1.70 favourite, straight to the front from…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX The powerful Greg and Skye Bond stable has been a dominant force in the rich Golden Nugget Classic in recent years, winning the $200,000 feature event with New Zealand-bred four-year-olds at three of the past six runnings of the Group 1 race. The latest bright star to emerge from the…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Inexperienced colt Soho Shakedown has made a bright start to his career with his first five starts producing four wins and a neck second, and he faces a moment of truth when he lines up against smart three-year-olds Belly Up, Captain Stirling, By Gee By Jingo and…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX An excellent trial at Byford last Saturday was a strong pointer that Chasing Hill would make a successful return to racing after a spell by winning the opening event, the $21,000 HTA Taking You To New Heights Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Six-year-old Chasing Hill is…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Star driver Deni Roberts has driven brilliant pacer Christopher Dance at his four starts in WA for three wins, including an easy victory in the WA Derby last November, and she has given punters a valuable lead by choosing to handle Justcallmemiki, a newcomer to the powerful Greg and Skye…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Astute trainer Justin Prentice has prepared three stable stars, Mighty Ronaldo, Tricky Miki and Jawsoflincoln, for an all-out assault on the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Cup over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. These three pacers will be racing first-up, and Prentice is confident they will perform strongly. He is…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX “He’s a very small horse but he is very brave and very tough,” said Emily Suvaljko after driving Mister Macedon to victory in the $23,000 Womencan Teal Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “The more you serve it up to him , the more he seems to enjoy it.…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Thirty-nine years ago, Brian Wheeler made a wonderful start to his harness racing career when his first pacer as a trainer was successful, with Brian Clemens driving Yes Mar to victory in a race for two-year-olds at Collie in May 1986. And now the 73-year-old Wheeler is still enjoying his…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Experienced seven-year-old Dalvey Robyn was seen in a new role for the first time in ten starts in WA when he set the pace from the No. 6 barrier in the 2130m Prince Brino Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Trainer Gary Hall Jnr had driven Dalvey Robyn as…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Enigmatic mare Blaze Coops has ruined her winning prospects many times by racing fiercely. But the Victorian-bred seven-year-old was on her best behaviour at Gloucester Park on Friday night when she paced smoothly in front for Kyle Harper and held on to win the $23,000 Gordon and Cecelia Cox Pace…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Veteran trotter Nickys Son made amends for his narrow defeat by a head at the hands of Patched in the Group 2 $50,000 Trotters Cup two weeks earlier by finishing strongly to beat Patched by one metre in the $21,000 Village Catering Free-For-All Trot over 2130m at Gloucester Park on…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Up-and-coming New Zealand-bred five-year-old Spyglass gave a sample of his ability when he outclassed the opposition in the 2130m Bill and Norma Horn Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. A heavily-supported $1.60 favourite from barrier four, Spyglass enjoyed a perfect sit in the one-out and one-back position before trainer-reinsman…