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A portion of every bet, betters WA racing. HHARNESSWA WA SEASON 2018/19 SEASON INFO Your season go-to for Showcasing feature race details, the Regions notices and contacts Meet Hayley Wheeler, the face behind the scenes at Collie Harness Racing Club the BRIDGE BAR Michael Radley’s insights on the idea the location the facilities SEASON 2018/19 Our profits stay in WA and fund a better racing industry. THE JOURNEY AHEAD Gamble responsibly. ruok.org.au SEASON 2018/19 FOLLOW RWWA CONTENTS 04 08 12 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 04 New Season | New Hope 03 WELCOME Tim Walker reminisces about the 2017/18 season, highlighting some of its stand-out performers and talks with industry experts to 16 COMMUNITY TAB preview the 2018/19 season ahead. Young riders competing in the Riding for the Disabled Association WA (RDAWA) 2018 Community TAB State Games. 08 The Bridge Bar Gloucester Park has seized the opportunity 18 BOTRA brought by the new Matagarup Bridge and Details of the third running of the Mouse have created The Bridge Bar, the perfect Racing Day Fundraiser, Stallion Service meeting place before Optus Stadium events. Auction and Downunder Sulky raffle. 21 2018/19 FEATURE RACES 12 Showcasing the Regions A detailed list of all feature race dates Julio Santarelli talks to Collie Harness Racing for the 2018/19 harness racing season. Club volunteer Hayley Wheeler, who's behind- the-scenes contributions to the club do not go unnoticed. 1 HWA SEASON 2018-19 HWA INDUSTRY NOTICES HARNESS WA EDITION 1 29 48 Stewards Notices Amendments to Rules EDITOR: Hayley McDermott of Racing CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Julio Santarelli, Tim Walker CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Scott Hamilton Media, 34 Jessica Ashcroft 54 Veterinary Notices Licensing, Registration and Ownership ALL ENQUIRIES: Hayley McDermott EMAIL: hayley.mcdermott@ rwwa.com.au PHONE: (08) 9445 5533 ADDRESS: 14 Hasler Road Osborne Park WA 6017 ONLINE: rwwa.com.au FACEBOOK: /racingandwageringwa TWITTER: @OfficialRWWA @RWWA_Harness HARNESS RACING DEPARTMENT RACING MANAGER: Barry Hamilton CHIEF HANDICAPPER: Warren Wishart HEAD OFFICE ADDRESS: 14 Hasler Road Osborne Park WA 6017 EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 7.30am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday DRIVING MASTER: Trevor Warwick CONTACTS MOBILE: 0434 609 604 TRAINERS' CENTRE PH: (08) 9445 5267* 64 FAX: (08) 9445 3056 62 24HR NOM SERVICE PH: (08) 9445 5268* Australian Controlling Trainers and Drivers * N.B. all incoming and outgoing calls are recorded Authorities STEWARDS DEPARTMENT 63 71 GENERAL MANAGER INTEGRITY Denis Borovica WA Harness Racing Concession and PHONE: (08) 9445 5427 DEPUTY CHIEF STEWARD Rhys Chappell Clubs and Training Young Drivers PHONE: (08) 9445 5177 Centres FAX: (08) 9477 5215 EMAIL: [email protected] ASCOT ADDRESS: 70 Grandstand Road Ascot WA 6104 INVESTIGATOR: Geoff Johnson MOBILE: 0408 843 560 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RWWA INTEGRITY Please send your letters to the editor to [email protected] RECORDED MESSAGE SERVICE: (08) 9445 5565 EMAIL: [email protected] LICENSING, REGISTRATIONS & STAKES ADDRESS: 14 Hasler Road Racing and Wagering WA acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Osborne Park WA 6017 EMAIL: [email protected] Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and PHONE: (08) 9445 5568 the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. 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Copyright of articles COVER and photographs in Harness WA Magazine remains with individual Shutterstock Image contributors and may not be reproduced without permission. Magazine printed by VANGUARD PRINTING - 26 John St, Northbridge 6003 2 WELCOME On behalf of the team at Racing and Wagering WA, we welcome you to the first edition of the new Harness WA magazine, previously known as Racing Ahead WA - Harness. FROM THE EDITOR I love my job, but never Harness WA has been redesigned to celebrate, inform more so than when and inspire the industry with an annual printed edition at reimagining Harness the beginning of each season, and regular monthly digital Racing Ahead WA. editions published online. There has been much This inaugural edition celebrates the new season through talk about the relevance its feature stories, and is also your go-to reference for the of Racing Ahead since season, including feature race details, racing rules, notices, it became an online- and industry contact information. only publication, but In the coming months you can expect to see more for me it became a interactivity with our digital version of Harness WA. time of opportunity; I hope you enjoy Harness WA and invite you to opportunities that participate in one of our new features - Letters to the are being embraced Editor. Send your feedback, suggestions, or anything else wholeheartedly by the team at RWWA. you wish to address to Our digital and social platforms allow us to speak to a [email protected] and your letter may be broader audience than ever before, report on things we published in our next edition with my reply. might otherwise have missed, and engage in a two-way Until next edition, happy reading. conversation with you. We have heard you, and it is for you that we have curated Hayley McDermott the Season 2018/19 printed edition of Harness WA. PUBLICATIONS EDITOR MESSAGE FROM THE RACING MANAGER Welcome to the new look Harness WA magazine, a once a year up date to complement our new on line racing magazine. Barack Obama said “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” So while it is acknowledged that change to some people can feel uncomfortable. Harness Racing, if it is to succeed into the future also needs to change. Over the next 12 months there will be a number of significant changes in the way we program meetings, schedule races, handicap horses as well as how we, provide information and communicate with the Industry. Many of the changes are borne out of the necessity to make Harness Racing more commercially sustainable, to ensure that this great sport continues to prosper well into the future. We cannot continue to rely on the “topping up” of harness distribution through subsidised funding arrangements and must strive to increase our market share and stand on our own two legs financially ever seen and confident that over time we can begin into the future. to increase the number of people involved in the sport whether they be trainers drivers owners or breeders or Other changes however are about improving what just people who love to go to the track and enjoy the we do so that you, our customers, receive a better harness racing action. service, better information and access to more reliable information. I genuinely believe that Harness racing is entering Barry Hamilton some of the most exciting times that this sport has MANAGER HARNESS RACING 3 HWA SEASON 2018-19 TIM WALKER FRANCO EDWARD 2018 THE GOLDEN SLIPPER KING OF SWING 2018 WA DERBY SOHO TRIBECA 2018 WA PACING CUP MY HARD COPY 2018 FREMANTLE CUP CHICAGO BULL NEW SEASON | NEW HOPE2018 MOUNT EDEN SPRINT The 2018/19 WA Harness season is underway new season brings new The two-year-old season in the hope. "With the month of winter months didn’t disappoint either, with the talented Franco The Harness Racing September comes the Edward reigning supreme in the season of 2017/18 will Golden Slipper. A be long remembered commencement of a in Western Australia for some new season and with With the month of September remarkable performances by comes the commencement of a some of the best Standardbreds that new levels of hope new season and with that new to have graced the sport. and excitement" levels of hope and excitement. Early last season the battle Perhaps it was fitting though between three of WA’s best the season closed with a taste Ultimately, it took a herculean pacers Chicago Bull, Soho Tribeca of what’s to come in the new performance from Lazarus in the and Shandale in Free For All races season, a series of commanding Final to take out the event. set the scene for the summer that performances from Chicago Bull. lay in wait. My Hard Copy and Soho Tribeca The best of those performances enjoyed Group 1 success in the The Inter Dominion series then came in the Listed August Cup Fremantle and WA Pacing Cups had a clear favourite in the form which led trainer Gary Hall Snr to respectively, while King Of Swing of Mark Purdon’s Lazarus, but it declare the horse the one to beat overcame a torrid preparation to was a series that had plenty of in any race he starts in over the win the WA Derby. twists and turns.