Flametree Repeats The Dose

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Flametree, a smart pacer by American sire Huntsville, maintained her supremacy over Dream Control when she led and easily beat that filly in a two-horse affair in the $50,000 final of the Gold Bullion for two-year-old fillies at Gloucester Park on Friday night. It was a carbon copy…

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Valedictorian Gains Revenge

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Valedictorian, a sensible and mature Art Major gelding, turned the tables on Rocket City when he beat that talented gelding by two lengths in the $50,000 APG Gold Bullion for two-year-old colts and geldings at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Rocket City was the $2 favourite after his…

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Now For The Diamond Classic

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Super filly Wonderful To Fly extended her winning sequence to four when she outclassed her rivals in the $50,000 APG Gold Bullion for three-year-old fillies at Gloucester Park on Friday night, and she now looks unbeatable in the $50,000 Pearl Classic on May 20. Wonderful To Fly, the…

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Swingband Set For A Clean Sweep

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Swingband, a big gelding with a powerful physique and an apt stable name of The Tank, took another giant step towards an ambitious target of a clean sweep in this year’s three-year-old classics when he steamrolled the opposition in the $50,000 APG Gold Bullion final for colts and…

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WA MEDIA GUILD FRIDAY’S THOUGHTS 22 APRIL

Friday night’s card at Gloucester Park features four Group 2 Gold Bullion Series Finals events for the three-year-olds and the two-year-olds. The four races – two for the colts and geldings and two for the fillies – are worth $50,000 each, with the winner taking home a cool $32,000. Members of the WA Trotting Media…

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Vultan Tin Excites Miller

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Vultan Tin, the seemingly indefatigable and indestructible ten-year-old, had his driver Mitch Miller searching for superlatives to describe his marvellous performance in finishing a half-head second to Double Up in a 2130m Free-For-All last Friday night. And now Miller is looking for another powerful display from the veteran…

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Hall Sticks With Alta Cinderella

Ken Casellas | Photo: Gloucester Park Harness Racing Star reinsman Gary Hall Jnr has decided to drive Alta Cinderella in preference to Bettor Get It On in the opening event, the 2130m Hoist Torque Australia Pace for mares at Gloucester Park on Friday night. He drove the Justin Prentice-trained Bettor Get It On to an excellent…

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Emily’s Distinguished Taste

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Outstanding young driver Emily Suvalkjko was impressed with Distinguished Taste’s easy all-the-way win over 2130m on Tuesday of last week, and she is bullish about the New Zealand-bred five-year-old’s prospects of repeating the dose when he contests the Hoist Torque Australia Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Distinguished…

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Miller Aims to Improve

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Reinsman Mitch Miller is enjoying a break-out season in the sulky and currently sits in fifth position in the WA drivers’ premiership table with 37 winners in the first 16 weeks of the year. But he is not getting carried away and is a harsh self-critic. The 27-year-old Miller…

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Big Test for Valedictorian

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators The stage is set for another exciting duel between star two-year-old geldings Valedictorian and Rocket City when they clash in the $50,000 APG Gold Bullion final for colts and geldings at Gloucester Park on Friday night. They have met twice, with honours even. Valedictorian won from Rocket City in…

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Swingband is Set to Atone

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators Talented gelding Swingband has regained his composure and is poised to make amends for his last-start misdemeanour by winning the $50,000 APG Gold Bullion final for three-year-old colts and geldings at Gloucester Park on Friday night. That’s the learned opinion of trainer Ryan Bell, whose optimism has been boosted…

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Egerton-Green Steals the Limelight

Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators There was a remarkable symmetry when outstanding reinsman Dylan Egerton-Green went on to the track at Gloucester Park on Friday night to contest races six, seven and eight. He proceeded to give another example of his skill when he drove career wins Nos. 766, 767 and 768. In the…

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