New Stakes winner for Arcadia A Team

New Stakes winner for Arcadia A Team

Peters Investments have bred numerous black-type winners from the ‘Arcadia’ family and they doubled up with Arcadia Park in the LR Aquanita Stakes (2019m) at Bunbury on Saturday. Arcadia Park (Ocean Park) is a son of Arcadia Dream (Domesday) who carried the successful...
Sessions filly outstanding in LR Belmont Oaks

Sessions filly outstanding in LR Belmont Oaks

Sessions filly Fancy Red had shown black-type potential when going back-to-back at Northam and Pinjarra over 1400m before completing a hat-trick on Saturday with an outstanding last-to-first victory in the LR Belmont Oaks (2019m). Racing beyond a mile for the first...
Profitable weekend for Ridgeport Farm

Profitable weekend for Ridgeport Farm

Linden’s Gold put the finishing touches on a profitable weekend for Ridgeport Farm when he finished like train to win the Swan Draught Hcp (1200m) at Bunbury on Sunday. He steamed home from last on a gloomy afternoon in the south-west when every other winner...
Ginger Baker adds Spice to South West Cup

Ginger Baker adds Spice to South West Cup

Pearce Racing and Yarradale Stud enjoyed a weekend to remember when veteran Gingerbread Man gelding Ginger Baker won the LR South West Cup (2200m) at Bunbury on Sunday. It had been five years and a day since the Pearce Racing-trained mare Essential Spice launched a...
Desert Dancing – TBWA Winner of the Week

Desert Dancing – TBWA Winner of the Week

Rommel mare Desert Dancing didn’t take long to open her account in WA when racing second-up for trainer Rob Gulberti at Northam on Wednesday. Racing in the blue and green diagonal-striped silks of Ridgeport Farm owner Santo Guagliardo, she had doubled up at Murray...
Yarradale’s Double Act at Pinjarra

Yarradale’s Double Act at Pinjarra

Gingerbread Man longshot Main Act landed the first-leg of a running double for Yarradale Stud in the Hygain Hcp (1000m) at Pinjarra on Saturday. Main Act (3g Gingerbread Man – West End Theatre by Rogano) sprinted down the crown of the straight-course while...
Light shines for Amelia Park

Light shines for Amelia Park

Amelia Park unveiled another very impressive graduate to open the Beaufine Stakes meeting on Saturday with the Dan Morton-trained debutant King Of Light in the TABtouch Plate (1300m). He followed Amelia Park-bred graduate Setagaya (Shooting To Win) who won her maiden...
Sessions strikes in Beaufine Stakes

Sessions strikes in Beaufine Stakes

Exciting 3yo Repossession completed a double for Oakland Park sire Sessions at Pinjarra on Saturday with his first black-type victory in the LR Beaufine Stakes (1000m). It also brought up a hat-trick for the Gangemi Thoroughbreds galloper this prep following wins at...
Be Responsible monsters maiden at Murray Bridge

Be Responsible monsters maiden at Murray Bridge

Gentle giant Be Responsible nailed another interstate win for Rangeview Stud sire Long Leaf with a last-stride victory in the Sportsbet Maiden Plate (1200m) at Murray Bridge on Wednesday. Be Responsible (3g Long Leaf – Tarp by Bletchley Park) was racing on debut...
Twisted Steel – TBWA Winner of the Week

Twisted Steel – TBWA Winner of the Week

Twisted Steel was the centre of strong support before facing the starter for the first time at Northam last Wednesday and he gave jockey Willie Pike and favourite punters a comfortable ride in the Prominence Maiden (1100m). Backed from $2.35 into $1.90, the Simon...
Black-type treble beckons Opportunistic

Black-type treble beckons Opportunistic

Winning connections will let the dust settle before making a decision whether to send Opportunistic for a spell or keep him in work for the LR Aquanita Stakes (2000m) at Bunbury on July 12. The Lynward Park-bred graduate had won the LR Raconteur Stakes (1400m) earlier...
Yarradale prevails thanks to Pike Playbook

Yarradale prevails thanks to Pike Playbook

Lightly-raced Silent Amarda climbed off the canvas to land the first-leg of a Yarradale Stud double at Northam on Wednesday. Silent Amarda (3g Merchant Navy – War Of Whispers by War Chant) was appearing first-up in the Pro Con Australia Maiden (1100m) since an...