A special public memorial service and racing industry tribute to farewell the late Harvey Crossman, will be held on Friday August 7th in The Pavilion at Ascot Racecourse commencing at 10.30am, followed by refreshments. A private family funeral service will be held next Tuesday August 4th at Karrakatta Cemetery. Mr Crossman, who passed away in Hollywood Hospital on July 22nd following a brief illness,…
In January 2017 the Department of Commerce advised all incorporated associations to review and where necessary update their rules (often known as the constitution) to ensure they complied with the Associations Incorporation Act 2015 with the deadline for compliance being 1/7/2019. Your Committee engaged chartered accountants, Stielow and Associates, to undertake the review which was…
An unbelievable day for WAROA members on at Ascot on Saturday with members featuring in 7 of 8 winners. Ascot R1 – Back to a Walk – Mike Cox (managing part owner) R2 – Shiedel – Des De Largie R3 – Travinator – Colin Pearce R5 – Delicacy – Bob & Sandra Peters R6 – Boom Time – Kim Loxton R7 – Lucky Street – Joanna Andrews, Ken & Helen Gregson, Isaac & Estelle Cohen, Ross…
It was a red letter day for WAROA members at Ascot on Saturday with six of the eight winners owned by WAROA members and another winner part owned by WAROA members. The fortune continued for WAROA members at the WAROA bonus day at Mt Barker on Sunday, with Gibraltar Rock and Quality Fair paying out…
There were three bonuses of $1500 each won yesterday at Bunbury. Race 6 Heez Our Wally John Cunniffe and Gay Scott Race 7 Chocolate Moon Alana Williams Race 8 Tick Tick Bloom Daniel Palmateer, Glenn McNally, Ryan Hopkinson, Jason McGuire, Dean Bailey, Daniel Koric, Ann Marie Harvey Interesting to note the winners of race 6…
It was a big day at Ascot Saturday for WAROA with six of the eight winners being owned or part owned by WAROA members. R1 Pushin’ Shapes Neville & Susan Duncan, Daniel Pearce – all part owners R2 Already Famous Kim Loxton – owned outright R3 Sheidel Des De Largie – owned outright R4 She’s…
Oakland Park Syndicate (Neville and Susan Duncan) was successful with their two year old Saxon gelding Saxophonist. This was his third race start having been placed fourth in his previous two races. The quality of the win suggests he has a bright future. Des de Largie’s Sheidel blitz the field in the Westspeed 3YO race…
Despite the many challenges confronting the WA racing industry, it is still prize-money that remains the number one issue for most owners following the results of our recent WAROA members’ survey. Maintaining or increasing current levels of stake-money is seen by most of our poll statistics, as the most important pillar to WA racing remaining…
WAROA congratulates the Southway Equine Syndicate (Mgr. D J Nelson) on the win of Soldier’s Salute at Albany yesterday which earned them the WAROA bonus of $1500. The win was the eight year old gelding’s fifth career win.
WAROA’s big day at Geraldton concluded with two $1,500 bonuses being paid out to WAROA members. Bart Venrooy picked up $1,500 for his galloper Bearcat gelding Blazing Ammo winning his maiden. Rod and Bridie O’Bree also collected $1,500 for the win of their Brocco gelding Shooting Iron who took out the the Sportspower Geraldton Handicap…
