Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Talented young mare Double Expresso was heading for the breeding barn a few short weeks ago — unless her form improved dramatically. Ross Olivieri, an eight-time leading trainer in WA, decided to change her work in a last-ditch bid to prolong her career, and the four-year-old has responded…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Eight-time WA premiership trainer Ross Olivieri acknowledged a wholehearted team effort for his three winners at Gloucester Park on Friday night and was particularly grateful for the work of farriers Tommy Sheehy and his son Jack to get outstanding lightly-raced five-year-old Papinik back in action after the gelding…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Bunbury trainer Frank Bonnett is renowned for his successes with two-year-old fillies and Catch The Red Eye rekindled memories of his brilliant fillies of yesteryear, Sovereign Beejay and Sheza Clout, when she won the $18,000 Simmonds Steel Laser And Tube Cutting Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Former Victorian pacer Rupert Of Lincoln was a certainty beaten as a $1.45 favourite last Friday week, and he made amends in emphatic style when he scored an easy win in the 2130m Simmonds Steel Fencing And Gates Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. He began out…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Four-year-old Manning, often underestimated, maintained his splendid form when he scored an easy victory in the 2536m Vale Percy Johnson Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. His past five starts have produced two wins, a second and two thirds to take his career earnings to $192,136 from…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Exciting three-year-old Jumpingjackmac broke a frustrating sequence of four second placings when he outclassed his ten rivals in the 2536m Simmonds Steel Industrial And Mining Fabrication Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Trainer Gary Hall snr has a high opinion of the Mach Three colt, and said…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Four-year-old mare Suing You, a beaten $1.10 favourite at Wagin a week earlier, was unwanted from the coveted No. 1 barrier in the $19,000 Etch Coatings Professional Powder Coating Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. She was a $16 chance when part-owner and trainer-reinsman Shane Young drove…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Throughout her career Arma Indie has been an irascible, temperamental pacer and a handful to control in her races. But she is now in foal to Bettors Delight and was on her best behaviour when Mark Reed drove her to an all-the-way victory in the Etch Coatings Commercial…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Heez Our Perseus, purchased for $15,000 about nine months ago, is proving a bargain, and he completed a training treble for Gary Hall snr at Gloucester Park on Friday night when he set the pace and won the 2536m The Trots WA, Harness The Dream Pace. This was…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Brilliant lightly-raced mare Balcatherine stamped herself as a genuine contender for the rich Fremantle and WA Pacing Cups early next year when she gave a superb frontrunning display to score an easy victory in the $50,000 Simmonds Steel City of Perth Cup at Gloucester Park on Friday night.…
Punters are in for a treat at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Race five – the $50,000 Perth Cup (2130m) – will see the return of exciting pacer Magnificent Storm, the winner of 18 of his 19 starts in the west. The Ray Williams-trained four-year-old gelding has been a revelation since coming to WA from…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators New Zealand-bred Arma Indie has been unplaced at her past nine starts but looks to have excellent prospects of winning the 2130m Etch Coatings Commercial Spray Painting Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. She has been racing in considerably stronger company and she is sure to appreciate…