17 August 2023
Shaun O’Donnell adopted different riding tactics to steer home a double for Gold Front Thoroughbreds sire Awesome Rock at Belmont on Wednesday. He came from last on Banks Avenue in the Peninsula Dining Room Hcp (1200m) and then led from go to whoa aboard Zaza...
17 August 2023
King’s Troop is building a strong strike-rate with his new-season 4yo crop ahead of his first book at Roselee Park in Serpentine. His debutant Patron Of Kings was successful in the Amelia Park Maiden (1200m) at Belmont on Wednesday after winning three trials for...
17 August 2023
Indie Ruler was run down at his first two starts at Belmont since a six-month spell but he wasn’t for catching in the Crown Perth Maiden (1200m) on Wednesday. Scenic Lodge-based stallion Universal Ruler has jumped to an early lead on the 2023-24 WA Sires’ Premiership...
14 August 2023
Amelia’s Jewel continued a memorable August for her owner-breeder Peter Walsh with a triumphant WA Racehorse of The Year Award at The Ritz-Carlton on Saturday evening. The daughter of Champion Haras de Bonneval sire Siyouni (Fr) was an unchallenged winner following an...
14 August 2023
All American mare Duchess Of Gossip is bound for black-type company after completing a Belmont hat-trick for Geisel Park owner-breeder Eddie Rigg on Saturday. Dion Luciani trains Duchess Of Gossip for Rigg, Kevin Johnson and Simon Lill (Photo / Western Racepix) and...
14 August 2023
Moorditj Boy was in a race of his own winning the TABtouch Hcp (1200m) by four lengths from a well-beaten field at Belmont on Wednesday. The Hayden Ballantyne-trained 3yo jumped straight to the front at his second start and that’s the last they saw of him. The race...
13 August 2023
Yarradale Stud resident Gingerbread Man became the first WA-based stallion to sire a black-type winner in 2023-24 when Phanta landed Saturday’s LR Belmont Newmarket (1200m). Back in action following an explosive victory in the LR Bolton Sprint (1200m) last month, he...
12 August 2023
Oakland Park owners Neville and Susan Duncan teamed up with trainers Ben and Dan Pearce for a winning double with Lord Vampi and Dun With The Blues at Northam on Thursday. Lord Vampi (Playing God) started deep in the red at $1.35 for the Motherland Maiden (1300m) and...
10 August 2023
Choixway registered the first WA-bred win for Roselee Stud resident Jimmy Choux (NZ) at Northam on Thursday. The 3yo grey galloper was on debut for trainer Jim Taylor and camped outside Hot Nova (Safeguard) in the Mando Maiden (1000m). He got the better of the...
9 August 2023
Champion trainer Neville Parnham is marshalling his team for another premiership-winning season and he’s counting on Ridgeport Farm sire Rommel to provide his fair share of winners for the stable. So is Ridgeport Farm owner Santo Guagliardo who raced Rommel to a Group...
8 August 2023
Grant and Alana Williams have a Group 1 program planned for their Star Turn mare Alsephina and her stablemate Starry Heights is another potential black-type performer for the Ascot summer carnival. Starry Heights (Photo / Western Racepix) is also by Vinery Stud sire...
8 August 2023
Ascot trainer Colin Webster and his wife Lyn have struck gold with their Shooting To Win 3yo Wubin Gold. The chestnut filly with a big white blaze was hard to miss in the Morley Growers Market Hcp (1000m) at Belmont on Wednesday. She is part-owned by Yarradale Stud’s...