Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Miss Red Velvet looks certain to follow in the footsteps of her outstanding relations Maczaffair, Golden State and A Fair Ol Dance, following her most impressive debut when she scored a stylish victory in the $30,000 Western Crown for two-year-old fillies over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Prominent…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Prominent trainer Michael Young was captivated by the looks of Soho Tribeca colt Cease To React as a yearling and he has no regrets that he outlaid $17,000 to buy the youngster for $17,000 at the 2024 Perth APG yearling sale. It was a wise decision, with Cease To React…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Sugar Apple, with one win from his previous 22 starts going into the $23,000 Belly Up Pace over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday night, bounced back to form when he came from last to win as the fourth favourite at $7.10. But the New Zealand-bred six-year-old had to survive…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Tough eight-year-old Mister Macedon thrives on working hard in his races, and he was seen in his favourite role in the breeze when he scored a fighting victory in the $21,000 Team Bond Leading Trainers Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Polemarker and $71 outsider Sporting Grace…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX New Zealand-bred five-year-old Ventura was recognised as a standing-start specialist with seven of his first nine wins coming in stands. But now, under the care of trainer-reinsman Gary Hall Jnr, he is flourishing in mobile events in which one of his greatest assets is his sparkling gate speed. Hall made…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Seven weeks ago, veteran pacer Hampton Banner had a losing sequence of 22, but trainer Debra Lewis has rejuvenated the eight-year-old who has now won at three of his past four starts. Jocelyn Young has formed an excellent association with Hampton Banner, and she has been in the…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Brilliant speedster Steno enhanced her reputation as one of the best pacing mares in Australia when she outclassed her rivals in the Group 3 Laurie Kennedy Free-For-All over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Her sparkling frontrunning performance which saw her speed over the final 800m in 55.3sec. and…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX New Zealand-bred filly Captainshavtime resumed after a 19-week absence in fine style when she coasted to an effortless victory in the $21,000 Aardiebytheseaside Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The three-year-old, trained by Greg and Skye Bond and driven by Deni Roberts, was the $1.30 favourite from barrier four,…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX An explosive burst of sizzling speed carried exciting four-year-old Waverider from seventh and last on the home bend to a superb victory in the $23,000 Christopher Dance Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. It was a compelling performance which enhanced the pacer’s prospects in the rich Golden…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators “It was back to the old Waverider,” declared reinsman Kyle Symington when assessing the four-year-old’s prospects in the $23,000 Christopher Dance Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Waverider, trained by Ryan Bell, is awkwardly drawn at barrier seven in the field of eight, but he…
Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Brilliant mare Steno is poised to win the $50,000 group 3 Laurie Kennedy Free-For-All over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday night for the second year in a row when she resumes racing after a seven-week absence. Steno, who will be making her first appearance as a six-year-old, will start…
Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Cease To React, a colt by former star millionaire pacer Soho Tribeca, will be a popular choice with punters when he begins from the No. 2 barrier in the $30,000 Western Crown for two-year-old colts and geldings over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Trained by…