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Ascot Preview, 19th January
Race 1 - Hot And Humid We’ll be copping a scorcher on Saturday with 37 degrees, the early forecast. Confident we can have a hot start to the day, with Wild Gust being the best bet on the...
35 Comments | 7 years ago
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Pinjarra Preview, 12th January
We head to the country to give Ascot a well earned rest. This will also be a shorter and more concise preview (thank god the crowd screams). Roughies galore, forgive me. Race 1 - No Idea No...
1 Comments | 7 years ago
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2019 Perth Cup Day Preview
Race 1 - Miss Dom Sheed As per the norm with the two year old races I won’t speculate on a speed map with so many first starters, but this race does look to have Miss West Coast’s n...
42 Comments | 7 years ago
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Ascot Preview, 29th December
A brief lull in what has been a tremendous summer carnival, as we all recover from our Christmas food comas and come to terms with the reality that this is the best eleven cricketers our country ca...
36 Comments | 4 years ago
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CB Cox Stakes Day Preview, Ascot 22nd December
With temperatures set to soar, we will have to wait til 2.44pm for our first winner of the day. The only issue with the late start is for the Eastern States punters who will have to wait until 9.50...
15 Comments | 7 years ago
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Ascot Preview, 15th December
Race 1 - Trial And Error Won’t bother even attempting a speed map with the juveniles, with six of the nine runners unraced. Specialism completely picks itself on what it has shown at the...
15 Comments | 7 years ago
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Full Kingston Town Classic Day Preview
We reach a sad but fulfilling conclusion to the TabTouch Master series, with my body feeling the full effects of many a Kirin Megumi. It’s definitely been a staying test, ran at a sprinters t...
4 Comments | 7 years ago
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Full Winterbottom Stakes Day Preview
The lengthy stint in the nets paid dividends last week when all our wildest Railway Stakes dreams came true. Unfortunately there are still remnants of the hangover present as I type this four days...
35 Comments | 7 years ago
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Full Railway Stakes Day Preview
While it’s now known as the ‘masters series’, Railway Stakes day will always be Super Saturday to me. The day which makes a grown man feel like a twelve year old kid at Christmas...
6 Comments | 7 years ago
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2018 Railway Stakes Preview
The race which stops half a nation. This isn’t the highest quality Railway Stakes of all time and I don’t really agree with the 4kg swing from top to bottom in the weights, but nonethel...
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2018 WA Guineas Preview
Monster edition of the 2018 WA Guineas, with thirteen blokes to do battle against the three quality girls backing up from the Champion Fillies seven days ago. Chris Waller, Darren Weir and Gai Wate...
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Ascot Preview, 17th November
Race 1 - Seven Days With just one week til the biggest day in the Perth Racing calendar, my liver is already starting to get that uneasy feeling when it knows a serious onslaught is coming. For...
2 Comments | 7 years ago
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Markovina 13 Jun | Posts: 3296
Just as a follow up to my earlier post re the great Tobin Bronze winning the 1967 Doncaster with John Miller ( only got the ride on the Friday after Johnson got a month ) aboard Attached is the newspaper write up of its sensational ...
warrenrobinson 12 Jun | Posts: 576
I’ll take on board the valid point regarding the editor ‘s role in what’s printed in the paper. Perhaps our disappointment should be with the paper and the editor rather than the journalist. I certainly didn’t mean to question Ernie as a person, I’ve only had ...
Pinballwizard 12 Jun | Posts: 32
I’ll take on board the valid point regarding the editor ‘s role in what’s printed in the paper. Perhaps our disappointment should be with the paper and the editor rather than the journalist. I certainly didn’t mean to question Ernie as a person, I’ve only had ...
TimmyBee 12 Jun | Posts: 45
Breaking a resolution here, a one off, because of so much ill-informed commentary on how a newspaper, if one can take the liberty of referring to The West as a "Newspaper", actually works. Honestly, the last two posts are monumental in their fundamental lack o...
Chopchop43 12 Jun | Posts: 446
There is a time and place for certain substances in this industry because without them an overwhelming majority of horses wouldnt make it to the race track and continue to be just competitive, every trainer has treated a horse at some stage of their career wi...
Markovina 12 Jun | Posts: 3296
Its good Jay Jay has come back - because there has been very little content on this forum - and we all love Harness Racing , and his posts and history stuff is good reading And while im at it what has happened to Save The Game - he was an abso...
LightningJake 12 Jun | Posts: 50
I also welcome you back, JayJay. You have saved me a lot of typing. Any exogenous cortisone is fraught with danger. In my mind it IS performance enhancing, for the very reason's JayJay outlined. As a registered Veterinarian I know what it can do to the ...
warrenrobinson 11 Jun | Posts: 576
Breaking a resolution here, a one off, because of so much ill-informed commentary on how a newspaper, if one can take the liberty of referring to The West as a "Newspaper", actually works. Honestly, the last two posts are monumental in their fundamental lack o...
JayJay 11 Jun | Posts: 8097
Breaking a resolution here, a one off, because of so much ill-informed commentary on how a newspaper, if one can take the liberty of referring to The West as a "Newspaper", actually works. Honestly, the last two posts are monumental in their fundamental lack o...
Pinballwizard 11 Jun | Posts: 32
Agree with you Ivory. Rather than make any mention of any of the 10 races run last Friday at GP, Ernie dedicates his whole article in Saturday’s West to Aiden’s positive swab. A swab to a therapeutic drug the majority of stables use to treat a range of ailment...