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Belmont Preview, 7th July
Race 1 – Protest Dismissed After taking a week off in protest of the amount of Love Island tweets popping up on my twitter feed, I am back reinvigorated and willing to forgive. In saying...
15 Comments | 1 week ago
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Belmont Preview, 22nd June
Race 1 – Kepler With the Eagles, Socceroos and Royal Ascot treble on the horizon, time is limited so we’ll keep this short and sweet. Not since Kepler Bradley went down clutch...
40 Comments | 3 weeks ago
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Belmont Preview, 16th June
Race 1 – Two Two’s Belmont with be bathed in sunshine on a cracking winter’s day befitting a brilliant edition of the Hyperion Stakes. The Socceroo’s knocking off the f...
8 Comments | 1 month ago
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Belmont Preview, 9th May
Perth's tipping championship Raceday is returning shortly for PTT. Get on board. Race 1 – Withdrawals I haven’t coped well this week. With only SEVEN r...
48 Comments | 1 month ago
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Back to Belmont Preview, 26th May
Race 1 – Winter Is Coming There is every chance this preview will be written in vain with around 70-80mm of rain forecast between now and the first race on Saturday. I for one, am a glass...
62 Comments | 1 month ago
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Ascot Preview, 18th May
Race 1 – Seeya Scott With a small tear running down my cheek, we say goodbye to another Ascot season. There has been some high’s and some low’s but as long as we’ve all...
35 Comments | 1 month ago
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Ascot Preview, 12th May
Race 1 – Budding Boo… Star Glorious conditions for the penultimate Saturday Ascot meet of the season with the sun shining and Fremantle continuing to embarrass themselves as a foo...
18 Comments | 2 months ago
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Ascot Preview, 5th May
Race 1 – Vaughn’s Missile Last week I used the terms ‘cracking’, ‘ripper’ and ‘brilliant’ to describe the Ascot card ahead of us. This time roun...
10 Comments | 2 months ago
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Ascot Preview, 28th April
Race 1 – Maiden Over An absolute cracking Ascot card after a less than enticing midweek ANZAC day meet. 28 degrees and no precipitation on the horizon looks a fitting forecast for a grea...
46 Comments | 2 months ago
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Ascot Preview, 14th April
Race 1 - Shaun Of The Dead I was going to write this on Thursday night, but I was far too disgruntled after Shaun McGruddy’s ride on Jester Rock. On a rail and leader bias track, you hav...
22 Comments | 3 months ago
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Ascot Preview, 7th April
Race 1 – Stevie Wonder 24 degrees and slightly overcast – perfect racing conditions for those with red hair and fair complexions. It’d be fair to say that this first event of...
3 Comments | 3 months ago
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Good Friday Racing, 29th March
Race 1 – The Best Friday Ever I’m not overly religious. In fact, I believe religion tends to cause more harm than good. So, the fact we can drink, gamble and yell at horses on a ma...
77 Comments | 3 months ago
Recent Comments
spinking 18 Jul | Posts: 1572
Geez with those sort of numbers if you had one descent enough I know where it would be heading. I have been told only told so don't know if it is gospel that GRD own basically from the back of the admin /jockeys room at Belmont , if correct so all the tie ups ...
savethegame 18 Jul | Posts: 724
Full well remember the Cruickshank shuffle 20 odd people imitating a rotating spit no one getting any interference in sync.;;;Two good roan horses from the round Schraders park royale warwick riwaka vance other roan horses o...
TheDiva 18 Jul | Posts: 9754
meanwhile in NSW:As of Sept 1 in NsWSat Metro- 125kMidweek Metro - 50kPublic Holiday Metro -60kHighways - 75kProv- 35kCountry- 22kListed- min 140kG3- min 160k
RIO 18 Jul | Posts: 13493
They weren't prepared to give up Ascot as they "thought" - that they owned it. Then discovered they had a never ending lease as long as it was used for equine activity. By that stage they were already deep in negotiations to sell/develop Belmont and keep Ascot...
spinking 18 Jul | Posts: 1572
No argument here about that Tivers. The million dollar question is which one to keep. And I dare say most would have the same answer to that one
Tivers 17 Jul | Posts: 6512
Weren’t offering to give up Ascot then, as we appear to mostly be suggesting now. Bottom line on that point is - the club can not afford to maintain two venues. End of argument.
spinking 17 Jul | Posts: 1572
I think the snub of the Barnett government at the time by PR officials hasn't helped. If more had been done back then to get the gov on board they might have been better of now
Tivers 17 Jul | Posts: 6512
Then need to rework the deal with GRD yes. There needs to be room for two tracks (for racing) at the least... and that’s if crase all training / trials at Belmont (need third / fourth otherwise). Would suggest it is done in a style where they cross cross ea...
RIO 17 Jul | Posts: 13493
If done before the stadium, they would have got everything the industry wanted. If the deal is done now. The industry will get what it needs. I think the Lark Hill track would be upgraded, and very minimal race day infrastructure put in...It is still our major...
Tivers 17 Jul | Posts: 6512
Perhaps could arrange to swap some for some river front land at Ascot. (Yes I know they don’t technically “own it”....... blah blah)