Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Wonderful To Fly, the State’s outstanding two-year-old filly in 2021, is fit and ready to make an impressive start to her three-year-old campaign when she resumes racing in the www.TheWest.com.au Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Part-owned, trained and driven by Shane Young, Wonderful To Fly has…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Ace reinsman Shannon Suvaljko has given punters a valuable lead by choosing to drive Medieval Man in preference to smart mare Alice Kay in The West Australian Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Suvaljko has driven the Katja Warwick-trained Alice Kay at 16 of her past 17…
The $50,000 The West Australian Nights Of Thunder Final (1730m) highlights a stellar 10-event card at Gloucester Park on Friday night. And impressive heat winner Ideal Agent looks primed to make it a hat-trick of victories after drawing perfectly in gate two. The West Australian’s Ernie Manning and Guild president Wayne Currall have made Ideal…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Promising New Zealand-bred mare Miss Mucho will reappear after a 15-week absence when she begins from the No. 5 barrier in the 2130m Perth Now Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. She possesses sparkling gate speed and can also sprint home with a brilliant burst, and with…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Champion trainers Greg and Skye Bond are poised to land the quinella with brilliant New Zealand-bred five-year-olds Ideal Agent and Double Up in the $50,000 The West Australian Nights of Thunder final at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The geldings, both by American sire American Ideal, were dashing…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators “I thought it was never going to happen — the number of times going back home with a hard luck story,” said Mandurah butcher Ian Foley after his promising mare Misstiano had broken through for an overdue win at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Misstiano’s strong-finishing effort to…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Papinik, a lightly-raced gelding, gave further proof of his excellent potential when he was not extended in scoring an effortless victory in the 2130m Garrard’s Horse And Hound Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Trainer Ross Olivieri was delighted with his win at a 1.55 rate in…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Highly-promising colt Floewriter has inherited much of the ability of his close relation Handsandwheels, and he is developing into a strong candidate for the WA Derby in May. Floewriter, trained and driven by Aiden de Campo, was wonderful value at $13.90 from out wide at barrier eight in…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Mundijong trainer Michael Young has Orlando Blue racing in peak form, and the WA-bred four-year-old stretched his winning sequence to four when he gave another bold frontrunning display to score a narrow victory in the 2536m Direct Trades Supply Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Shannon Suvaljko…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Talented young reinsman Dylan Egerton-Green completed a double at Gloucester Park on Friday night when he drove $5.30 chance Shadow Roll to an easy victory in the 2130m Mondo Doro Smallgoods Pace. This followed his success earlier in the program when Ideal Agent won a heat of the…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Ace trainer-reinsman Colin Brown has cured many of Arma Einstein’s problems, and the WA-bred four-year-old is developing into a good, reliable performer. Arma Einstein, the $1.80 favourite, gave an excellent example of his sit-sprint ability when he was tenth at the bell before he finished powerfully to win…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators New Zealand-bred five-year-old Double Up went into the first qualifying heat of the Etch Coatings Nights of Thunder at Gloucester Park on Friday night having started favourite at ten of his 13 appearances in WA and at odds-on in eight of those events. He was drawn on the…