Leading horseman Hayden Reeves claimed yet another Albany Harness Racing Club trainer of the year title, with a dominant display in the 2025-26 season.
Cameron Newbold
Trainers and jockeys are ready for barriers to swing open for the 2026 Bunbury Cup and Stakes with multiple locals competing for glory at their home track this Saturday.
Jack Penniment
The popular Denmark Cup rounded out the Albany Harness Racing Club season as Major Freeway proved too strong for the field, winning under the guidance of leading trainer Hayden Reeves.
Local heroine Miss Envy is in the form of her life and looks primed for a tilt at this year’s Perth Cup (520m) when she enters this weekend’s heats at Cannington.
Hayden King
William Pike entered Ascot’s Saturday programme with all 10 favourites and yielded four winners, but could he really have done any better?
Iconic Australian racehorse Makybe Diva, who won the Melbourne Cup three times, has died after a colic attack.
Jasper Bruce
Tributes are flowing in memory of famous racehorse Makybe Diva, the only horse to have won the Melbourne Cup three times, after she died following a short battle with colic aged 27.
The three-time Melbourne Cup winner is being farewelled after a short battle.
Harrison Reid
Support is still raining in for William Pike in all of Ascot’s events on Saturday, with the state’s leading jockey preparing for the unprecedented honour of guiding 10 favourites on a metropolitan card.
Trainer Roy Rogers and jockey Jefferson Tsang produced standout performances at the Albany races on Saturday, both finishing with a winning treble.
Amy Towers
Emerging reinsman Liam Elliott will have excellent prospects of capturing his biggest win in the sulky this Friday night at Gloucester Park when undefeated youngster Seaside Serenade tackles the Sales Classic.
Streisand has delivered a big payday for top ex-WA footballer Michael Gardiner, clinching the Group 1 $2 million Blue Diamond (1200m) at Caulfield despite racing without cover throughout.
WA racing royalty Damien Oliver has thanked medical staff after he was hospitalised following a surfing accident in Victoria this week.
Samantha Rogers and Hayden King
Albany trainer Adrian Shanks continued his strong season at Harold Reid Paceway with a winning double on Friday, February 13.
WA reinsman Gary Hall Jr has been avalanched with support to make a striking start to Queensland’s Ultimate Driver Championship, firming from $3.50 to $2.40 to lead the competition after the series’ first night
Experienced galloper River Rubicon has been showing glimpses of winning promise and gets another chance to break through in Saturday’s Listed $125,000 Detonator Stakes (1800m) at Ascot.
Perth jockeys are furious after they were lucky to avoid potential disaster when a section of running rail was missing in race one at Belmont Park on Wednesday.
Ernie Manning
This year’s Kojonup Agricultural Supplies Wandecla Races were populated by a strong contingent of local trainers and horses, with Albany trainer Ashleigh Woollett taking home the cup on Magic Mikey.
Jacki Elezovich
WA’s No.1 trainer Grant Williams has opened up on the ‘deeply confronting’ uncertainty over his and wife Alana’s suspension from racing, as the pair won an appeal and further declared their innocence.
The outcome of an appeal from Grant and Alana Williams against the suspension of their training licenses has been revealed.
Two great pacers of WA harness’ history have been elevated to Hall of Fame status, with both Tennessee Sky and The Falcon Strike to be recognised at a gala function on March 21.
Twisted Steel supplied local sire Rommel with a red-letter day, giving the stallion a double in both Magic Millions races when he took the 1200m three-year-old trophy.
Tentyris’ success in Flemington’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) has experts already wondering if the three-year-old is Australia’s newest sprint king after his explosive dash proved too much.
Sean and Jake Casey are hoping lightning strikes twice in Pinjarra’s Listed $250,000 Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m) when they saddle up race favourite Maria Lucia.
