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Pinjarra Boxing Day

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SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,091 posts
edited December 2024 West Australian Racing
Firstly Merry Christmas and a happy and profitable New Year to all my readers  :D

Selections early for Pinnie as hectic socialising ahead of it. Sad really as Boxing Day (Australia Derby) at Ascot used to be one of the best race meetings and now we are confronted with a country meeting staging 3 maiden races and a 'Dash' over 1300 metres. You have to be joking as a dash is 800 to 1000 metres maximum. 

Having said all that my thoughts are as follows;

R5 Knockoneback suited over the journey
R6 Tawkin Jibberish a best bet from Extreme Love and Divine Inanna
R7 Ground Braker a special (weight the only concern)  from Mia Gusto... Constipated last 3 starts...No runs. :))  Locked away tighter than P Diddy and Long Genes.. Trifecta and box quinella you will get a result


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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,295 posts
    yep, boxing day was "the" ascot showcase..wasn't the karrakatta and railway on that day?

    now we are the only state that does not have a metro meeting on the 26th. effing disgraceful....

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  • DamienWyerDamienWyer    7,785 posts
    Merry Christmas everyone
  • spinkingspinking    3,902 posts
    Yes tomorrow is a reminder of what WA racing was. One of the great days to be on a racecourse. Today a day we put things behind us and pretend to like some people we don’t. Only joking a merry Christmas to all PTT people enjoy the day

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  • spinkingspinking    3,902 posts
    Falc by memory the Aust Derby Karrakatta Boxing Day the railway the Saturday a few days after then the 2 mile Perth cup New Year’s Day basically those 3 meetings in the week

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  • RodentRodent    7,263 posts
    I've been to Perth twice. I attended the Boxing Day meeting at Ascot the year Hot Jules won the Derby.
    Summer carnival was good back then.

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  • GLAMOURGLAMOUR    769 posts
    Was the meeting at Ascot on Boxing Day a real family day with big crowds.why change something that was successful,you look at Pinjarra Albany and Esperance fields very ordinary.
  • spinkingspinking    3,902 posts
    Glamour not so much a family day as opposed to a enthuisiests day. When you actually had to go to the track to see the best at the time horses and jockeys. By memory JJ Miller had a good record in the Aust derby possibly winning 4 or 5
  • SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,091 posts
    edited December 2024
    No one nominating selections today? In addition to selections above I am going to show some versatility and propose these;

    Albany 
    R7 Henry The Aviator 

    Esperance
    R4 Al Quepone
    R5 Always Awesome from Greylander
    R6 Coatachino
    R7 Wheatstack Thief and Al Tina my roughie of the day each way

  • MarkovinaMarkovina    3,085 posts
    spinking said:

    Glamour not so much a family day as opposed to a enthuisiests day. When you actually had to go to the track to see the best at the time horses and jockeys. By memory JJ Miller had a good record in the Aust derby possibly winning 4 or 5

    It was a great day , great time of the year( exciting - anticipation ) to go to those big ( on an Australian racing basis ) races at Ascot 

    I can remember a Perth Cup Meeting many many years ago , and i actually caught a bus ( cant remember where i got on , maybe the City ) and we were running late to get to the Perth Cup , We wernt that far from the track say 4ks , and there was this young bloke with a young kid and his wife/partner in a car in front of us , and he was all over the place ( drug affected ) like a drunken sailor , any how the bus collided into the car ( wasnt the bus drivers fault at all ) , but we came to a screaming hault , and they had to get a replacement bus to get us to the track 

    But the  good news was , we made it in time to see the Cup , ha , maybe one of you lot were also  on that bus , ha 
  • psychopsycho    737 posts
    Markovina said:

    spinking said:

    Glamour not so much a family day as opposed to a enthuisiests day. When you actually had to go to the track to see the best at the time horses and jockeys. By memory JJ Miller had a good record in the Aust derby possibly winning 4 or 5

    It was a great day , great time of the year( exciting - anticipation ) to go to those big ( on an Australian racing basis ) races at Ascot 

    I can remember a Perth Cup Meeting many many years ago , and i actually caught a bus ( cant remember where i got on , maybe the City ) and we were running late to get to the Perth Cup , We wernt that far from the track say 4ks , and there was this young bloke with a young kid and his wife/partner in a car in front of us , and he was all over the place ( drug affected ) like a drunken sailor , any how the bus collided into the car ( wasnt the bus drivers fault at all ) , but we came to a screaming hault , and they had to get a replacement bus to get us to the track 

    But the  good news was , we made it in time to see the Cup , ha , maybe one of you lot were also  on that bus , ha 
    Looking for confirmation on what I believe to be true ? Normal Saturday race meetings at Ascot a bus every 15 minutes from Wellington st terminal or Busport to Ascot for punters, could not possibly imagine anything even similar today

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  • SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,091 posts
    edited December 2024
    Before gaining my Driver's Licence it was the bus and the bus to the Avon Valley meetings from the East Perth terminal. 

    I also used to get the bus into town every week to get the racebooks from Doogues Newsagency. I recall a short time when there was a dispute with Fairplay Print and another printer took over briefly for the Bunbury racebooks in particular. Fortunately I was able to pick those up just down Barrack St short distance from Doogues...... Bookmakers Association building????

    Knockoneback was a nice result for me today and ended a frustrating run of seconds from the weekend
  • NgawyniNgawyni    763 posts
    Maybe next year Perth Racing/RWWA can think about putting on a City meeting on Boxing Day or between Xmas and New Year.
  • psychopsycho    737 posts
    Ngawyni said:


    Ngawyni said:


  • psychopsycho    737 posts
    Ngawyni said:
    Honestly don't think the people at RWWA think ahead or for the betterment of the sport at times. Thinking you'd get 3000-5000 on Boxing Day at Belmont/Ascot no matter what fields you threw up because 50-70% of the people attending wouldnt know a Class 1 from a Group 1 they just turn up to a meeting for something to do. The reason I said Belmont or Ascot is if it's at Belmont you dont risk the track for the Perth Cup although probably not a great deal of risk at this time of year and secondly you could go straight across the bridge to a scorchers game and there you go double whammy day out for around maybe 200-500 people
  • thefalconthefalcon    20,295 posts
    the perth cup has been run since about 1890, thats 135 years and always on jan 1. over that 135 years can you imagine how many days were over 100?  i'd say there would have been scores of them. have a look at he old black and sepia photos, huge crowds, men in woollen suits and ties and women in God knows what underclothes..no air-con. complain? not a bloody peep.
    i've been going to perth cups since the early sixties and recall some absolute scorchers....any complaints? not a peep.
    remember when time frame won..must have been 100+, anyone complain? not a bloody peep.
    have we become so bloody weak and so afraid of legal action that we shrink in horror of a hot day?
    melbourne has the occasional hot day, sydney had a number as does hot and humid qld.
    its january, its hot, the 1st is perth cup day, just run the bloody thing at the usual time as they've done for 135 effing years.

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  • AbbysAceAbbysAce    643 posts
    How hot was it when Rocket Racer won?

    Looked like the weather affected him after the race?
    :))

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  • SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,091 posts
    edited December 2024
    Abby you have crossed the Fawlty Towers threshold there....... Don't mention the war. Perth Turf Club...Don't mention Rocket Racer. The greatest disgrace in WA horse racing. Connell v Evans with the stewards casually observing. 

    Another big disgrace in WA for me involved an ex steward but I have highighted that one previously
  • spinkingspinking    3,902 posts
    Think Connell actually took more of Bob Howat than Evan’s

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  • NgawyniNgawyni    763 posts
    43.5C or 110.3F in Perth the day Time Frame won (1/1/97):


    Only 35.3C the day Rocket Racer won (3/1/87):


    Though both of the above temperatures were for Perth. Ascot is often a couple of degrees more.


  • SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,091 posts
    spinking said:

    Think Connell actually took more of Bob Howat than Evan’s

    I did not know that

  • spinkingspinking    3,902 posts
    Bob said that the night of the Perth cup as Connel entertained at a packed Mediterranean. He and the family were eating fish and chips on the foreshore
  • thefalconthefalcon    20,295 posts
    died far too young did Bob......
  • JayJayJayJay    8,085 posts
    Worse than Connell himself were the coat tuggers, excusers and flunkies that not only knew what was going on and defended the indefensible but they followed him around and wallowed in his ill gotten largesse. When the fertiliser hit the ventilator, they were nowhere to be seen. A foul era of self entitled smugness, pomposity and criminality.

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  • MuldoonMuldoon    423 posts
    edited January 1
    JayJay said:

    Worse than Connell himself were the coat tuggers, excusers and flunkies that not only knew what was going on and defended the indefensible but they followed him around and wallowed in his ill gotten largesse. When the fertiliser hit the ventilator, they were nowhere to be seen. A foul era of self entitled smugness, pomposity and criminality.

    Totally agree plenty of coat tuggers around that era, there was some very shifty people involved.  Plenty happened over the Kal rounds through that era on & off the racetrack.  
  • Vincent_vegaVincent_vega    584 posts
    I was a child in the 80s, it seems like an interesting time to be a grown up. Especially is u were a racing fan.

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