Newcomer Cashout Fancied

Ken Casellas | PACEPIX Most events for square gaiters in WA are made up of fields of veteran trotters, so it will be an unusual situation to have a three-year-old competing against some of these oldstagers in the $21,000 Book Your TABtouch Punters Club Table Trot over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The…

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Princess Katie Ready For Strong First-Up Effort

Ken Casellas | PACEPIX Princess Katie is enjoying her best season of racing with four wins and four placings from 14 starts, and she is ready for a strong effort when she resumes after a spell in the $30,000 WASBA Classic for four and five-year-old mares over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. She…

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Lusaka Is Out To Test Champion

Ken Casellas | PACEPIX Smart five-year-old Lusaka fared best in the random draw when he received the prized No. 1 spot in the $31,000 Taste Of WA Returning To GP Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night — and star driver Deni Roberts is sure to be planning to set the pace in…

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Brown Seeks To Go One Better

Ken Casellas | PACEPIX It would take a major earthquake to shake ace trainer Colin Brown’s faith in his star filly Im Category Five, the tough and talented daughter of Typhoon Tiff. Despite drawing out wide at barrier No. 7 in the $100,000 Trotsynd Diamond Classic for two-year-old fillies, Im Category Five is poised to…

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Champions Fight Out Thrilling Finish

Ken Casellas | Race Replay Hall Of Fame reinsmen Chris Lewis and Gary Hall Jnr have between them driven almost eleven thousand winners, and they were seen at their best as they fought out a thrilling finish of the $50,000 John Higgins Memorial over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The photo finish was…

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Suvaljko’s Masterly Drive

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX A snap decision by star reinsman Shannon Suvaljko paved the way for veteran pacer Yankee Lincoln’s victory in the $21,000 Trotsynd Pace over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday. Yankee Lincoln was an $11.10 chance from the outside barrier in the field of seven, with the polemarker Our Thunder the…

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Reeves Likes Being Busy

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Few trainers are as busy as the hard-working Coolup horseman Hayden Reeves, who had 18 starters,  eleven at Gloucester Park on Friday night and all seven runners in a 2560m stand at Northam on Saturday night,  for two winners, three seconds and three thirds. Most of his team enjoy a…

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Dame Valour’s Breakthrough Win

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Dame Valour went into Friday night’s $21,000 Beau Rivage Pace over 2130m as the winner of eight races, four at Northam, two at Bunbury and one each at Pinjarra and Narrogin, but with only five placings from 13 appearances at Gloucester Park. She finally put the record straight at headquarters…

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Insta Gator Likes The Breeze

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Up-and-coming five-year-old Insta Gator returned to racing after a five-month absence in fine style when he raced wide early and then in the breeze before winning narrowly from the fast-finishing No Noney in the $23,000 Taste Of WA Pace over 2536m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “I wasn’t sure…

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Candy Apple Is Getting Better

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Trainer Michael Munro has five-year-old mare Candy Apple racing in top form, and he is confident she will improve even further. Candy Apple, driven by Toby Lynn, was the $2 favourite from barrier No. 3 in the $23,000 Bridge Bar Pace over 2130m, and she was not extended in setting…

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Vanderbilt Is Tough

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX New Zealand-bred five-year-old Vanderbilt enhanced his reputation as one of the State’s toughest pacers when he overcame a wide barrier and a testing run in the breeze before he scored a fighting win in the $27,000 TABtouch Punters Club Pace over 2536m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Vanderbilt, trained…

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Hynam’s Successful Season

Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Byford trainer Craig Hynam was delighted when his veteran pacer Make It Quick finished with a sparkling burst to win the $21,000 Event Parking Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “I’ve had him for four years and he’s one of my favourites,” said Hynam, who celebrated his…

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