WA MEDIA GUILD FRIDAY’S THOUGHTS 29 APRIL

The $30,000 Allwoods Stud Farm Laurie Kennedy Race For Roses (2503m) headlines a stellar 10-event card at Gloucester Park on Friday night. The Group 3 feature is a standing-start race for fillies and mares. Members of the WA Trotting Media Guild have done the form and have settled on several polemarkers as their best bets…

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High Price Tested From Wide Draw

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Talented three-year-old High Price faces a stern test when he starts from the outside barrier in the field of nine in the 2130m Rock N Roll World Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. He warmed up for this assignment with a testing run in a 2130m event…

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Hall Opts for Euphoria

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Champion reinsman Gary Hall Jnr has given punters a valuable lead by choosing to drive Euphoria in preference to the New Zealand-bred five-year-old’s talented stablemate Alta Cinderella in the 2130m Allwood Stud Continues To Show The Way Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Euphoria, trained by Gary Hall…

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Eldaytona Ready for the Challenge

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Speedy four-year-old Eldaytona’s 24 starts have been over 1730m, 2130m and 2185m, and he will be tested over the longer trip of 2536m when he contests the opening event, the Allwood Stud Devoted To Breeding Excellence Pace, at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “I don’t think that the extra…

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Olivieri and Lewis Set to Strike

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Eight-time WA premier trainer Ross Olivieri and champion reinsman Chris Lewis have been a formidable combination in the Race For Roses feature event at Gloucester Park, having joined forces for the wins of Arctic Fire in 2011, Selkie (2014) and Sheer Rocknroll (2017). And now they are planning…

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Born To Boogie Set For Breeders Stakes

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Eight-time WA premiership trainer Ross Olivieri is setting brilliant mare Born To Boogie for the $50,000 WASBA Breeders Stakes next Friday week after her stylish victory in the 2130m Hoist Torque Australia Pace for mares at Gloucester Park on Friday night. “We will bypass the Race For Roses…

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Texas Tiger On His Best Behaviour

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Lightly-raced five-year-old Texas Tiger has posed plenty of problems for trainer Gary Hall Snr, who describes the gelding as his own worst enemy. Therefore, it gave Hall and his son, star reinsman Gary Hall Jnr considerable pleasure when he was on his best behaviour at Gloucester Park on…

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A Treble, And Now For Some Fishing

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Star reinsman Ryan Warwick drove with great skill to land a treble at Gloucester Park on Friday night before setting off on an overnight drive to Carnarvon to relax with some deep-sea fishing for the next week or so. He completed his treble when he guided the highly promising…

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Unconditional Is A Nightmare

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing New Zealand-bred mare Unconditional’s 21 starts have all been in Western Australia for trainers Greg and Skye Bond for earnings of $54,998 from eight wins and five seconds. But the four-year-old continues to provide plenty of headaches for her driver Ryan Warwick, who drove her to a narrow…

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Typhoon Banner’s Fast Start Decisive

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Typhoon Banner’s ability to begin fast and wrest the early lead from the $2.25 favourite Vespa proved the major factor in the gelding’s victory in the 2130m Rent A Gen Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Trainer Dylan Egerton-Green drove the $3.30 second fancy Typhoon Banner hard…

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Ima Rockabilly Rebel Is Improving

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing New Zealand-bred pacer Ima Rockabilly Rebel has been a work in progress for leading trainers Greg and Skye Bond, and the four-year-old notched his fifth win from eight starts this season when he finished solidly to beat $34 outsider Master Leighton in the 2130m Taking You To New…

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