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Ascot Preview, 3rd November
Race 1 - Snip Snip Tinsnip looks extremely well placed to turn the tables on Prim And Proper in the first at Ascot. Was arguably a good thing beaten second up when Pike had some minor traffic i...
33 Comments | 1 week ago
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Ascot Preview, 27th October
Race 1 - Swimming And Tits Unfortunately the team behind the Tabtouch early markets, learnt how to frame a quote this week and there were no early Galaxy Star or Jeraft gifts. Cracking effort r...
20 Comments | 2 weeks ago
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Ascot Preview, 20th October
Race 1 - Let The Carnival Begin A wet and windy Thursday morning cannot deflate the spirits of this Western Australian racing enthusiast as the carnival is officially upon us. There is a lo...
47 Comments | 3 weeks ago
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Bunbury Preview, 12th October
Race 1 - Funbury Feature racing makes its way to the South West with arguably the best Saturday race card we’ve seen in months. There is a real ‘start of the carnival’ feel ab...
27 Comments | 4 weeks ago
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Belmont Preview, 6th October
Race 1 - They Bet Us We sadly said goodbye to PUNTA during the week, in what was a case of the little guy not getting a fair go in a world dominated by the big corporate bookmakers. I think I s...
17 Comments | 1 month ago
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PUNTA to cease operations.
It is with much regret and sadness that the boys at PUNTA have decided to cease operations indefinitely. Declining turnover and the leakage of customers to corporate online bookmakers, who have...
3 Comments | 1 month ago
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Belmont Preview, 22nd September
Race 1 - No Mystery It appears a lot of owners and trainers have opted for the footy over the gallops with some very thin acceptances. It isn’t a card which gets the blood flowing. Af...
12 Comments | 1 month ago
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Belmont Preview, 15th September
Race 1 - Let’s Go C… Winx could win a fourth Cox Plate this year, but I don’t think there will be a better racing story than that of Andiamo Fica (https://bit.ly/2p7FCjC). I...
21 Comments | 1 month ago
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Belmont Preview, 8th September
Race 1 - Back Pike... I’d be surprised if #backpikedrinkwhatyoulike is not trending globally on twitter by the end of the Belmont card. The Wizard has a book of rides which most jockeys w...
5 Comments | 2 months ago
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Belmont Preview, 25th August
Race 1 - Broome To Belmont Keen on the chances of Patristic in the first. Looked sharp in a debut trial nearly a year ago, before copping one of the toughest initiations to racing you will see....
8 Comments | 2 months ago
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Belmont Preview, 18th August
Race 1 – The Word On The Street Sunny, 20 degrees and some competitive fields means I can forgo my usual pre-race one rant. This doesn’t mean all ‘The Bachelor’ related...
6 Comments | 2 months ago
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Belmont Preview, 11th August
Race 1 – Renouncement After being raised in WA and a proud sandgroper (the construction and erection of the Bell Tower was probably the moment where my pride peaked), I would like to for...
24 Comments | 3 months ago
Recent Comments
thefalcon 13 Nov | Posts: 15132
we here in the west have delusions of grandeur......do not nominate TFF....
thefalcon 13 Nov | Posts: 15132
have a look back a decade or 15 yrs ago and see what horses were in the PJP or whatever it was called then...
H-BOMBER 13 Nov | Posts: 6512
I'm not sure anyone is at fault. But this is not a GP3 race. Maybe it's programming? I guess all the 'good' horses are already qualified this year? Which leads me to believe there is a need for an influx of Eastern stars flesh, because weak lead up races le...
Tivers 13 Nov | Posts: 6716
Horses exiting more so. We sell half our good ones to Hong Kong etc...
TheFunkster 13 Nov | Posts: 3727
A construction site for 20 years.....Think i'll wait 20 years before buying
paraletic 13 Nov | Posts: 2850
Hows it perth racings fault? They supply the venue. Thats it.
curmudgeon 13 Nov | Posts: 960
Quite frankly .....NZ harness racing is a big big loser with this type of domination by a single stable. Even if everything is above board the races actually look contrived....every time. We are not that dissimilar in WA either.
DamienWyer 13 Nov | Posts: 6188
So who is at fault? Owners exiting or Race Club failing to attract ?
JayJay 13 Nov | Posts: 4198
Is a brother to both Major Reality and Ultimate Machete....handy broodmare!!
H-BOMBER 13 Nov | Posts: 6512
Injured badly pretty sure