I'm up bush and backed  #4, Nations. I listened to the race on Tabtouch and heard number 1, Honcho Minneli, declared the winner and the caller said he thought the 2 had run second.

They then went back to the studio and the bloke was raving on how the dog was born and bred in WA, but they were claiming it as an SA dog.

I went looking for results as I'd backed the 4 E/W and had a qaurtet with 1, 2, 4 for 1/2/3 & the field for 4th. No results came up for ages. When they finally did.... 4 was the winner 

I noticed there was a lengthy delay until the next... so what happened?? 

Race 3- Mitch Maguire

Race 4- Speed Man

Race 5- Chicago Bull

Race 6- Jason Rulz

Race 7- The Storm Chief

Race 8- Real Zeal

Race 9- Im Stylish

Race 10- Davinci Diamond

From Harness Racing website.

By colonial super sire Aachen and tracing back to a thoroughbred mare.....and she definitely had a bit of a throroughbred look about her, she was a force in fast class ranks in the late 70's after zooming through the classes when there was a genuine handicapping system.

Winner of the 1978 August Cup, the Brennan Cup, dead heating for 1st in the FTC Members Mile at Richmond Raceway in 1.59.6 around the tight circuit, won the Mt Eden Sprint in 1.57.9, the Stratton Cup and a Tatts Cup.....and the fast class ranks were extremely deep in that era. She could sprint and stay...a 2nd in the 3200m Easter Cup and 2nd in the Winter Cup, a grand mare by any measure. Sadly, she didn't breed on but it is fantastic to see her memory honored by Northam Harness Racing and WASBA. The Rifleman will be looking down with pride.

Race 1 Major Artist $6.50 to $2.40

Race 4 Renascentrez $7.50 to $3.40

Normally, to get a guernsey, the horse has to have won something in the feature race department but courtesy of running into more champs than Joe Frazier, he never did.

But with a 26% win and a 62% podium record and a winner of well over a $100k when that amount of money bought you 2 or 3 decent houses with change left over for a bargain bunkee from a used car lot in Vic Park, he gets a wild card entry. Handled by a very understated and underated driver from a famous WA racing family, and being by the "sire of the day" when everyone was buying his progeny courtesy of a couple of undisputed super stars, his name was a combination of the two blokes who bred him and he started of his racing life in the deep South of NZ. A slow maturer, he nonetheless claimed a 3yo NZ Group 3 win from his 6 starts in NZ prior to being purchased and coming to WA where he would go on to accumulate 20 wins and a very tight metropolitan assessment.

But it was what he didn't win and who beat him that saw him fly well under the radar.

I know there is driving to instructions but surely there has to be at some point plan b implamented.

First held in 1936, there has been some very notable winners. In 1958, Wilvetta  was successful...she went on to be WA Broodmare of the year and produced fine winners in the USA in Coolup Way and Placid Way as well as 5 other winners, Don Harper Snr's best horse Pauls Gift won in 1959, Pauls Gift won the Country Derby, The WA Derby and the WA Sires Produce Stakes to bookend a stellar year. In 1960, Tramontana zoomed around to win in a 2.22.0 mile rate.Very good mare Petite Arab won in 1963 and champion 3 year old Volutis won in 1966 and went on to win the WA Derby and the WA Sires Produce, a really serious horse. Another fairly serious horse won in 1970....Red Vicar....and the injury prone Lawndarme won in 1974. In 1987, Nippy Rendina went 1.59.8 in winning and was followed by good winners Mortoray Jac in 1993, Not Bad Johnnie (1.57.2 and $173k)  in 2008, Bettor Rules (1.55.0) and the brilliant Delightful Jade (1.5.2.0 and $242k) in 2015.

Plenty of chance in tonight's race and really pleased to see the tradition of the Great Southern Derby survives at a time when a lot of history and tradition is being trashed.