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RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA THOROUGHBRED RACING DEPARTMENT Racing Manager: David Hunter 14 Hasler Road, Osborne Park 6017 Twitter: @DavidHunter_27 Trainers’ Service Centre: (08) 9445 5277 24 Hour Nomination Service: (08) 9445 5278 Fax: (08) 9445 9312 Website: rwwa.com.au/CRIS/ Email: racing@rwwa.com.au Twitter: @rwwa_thor Office Hours Monday to Friday: 7am to 4pm Saturday: 7am to 10am Sunday: 7am to 9am Late scratchings outside these times must be lodged with the Race Club. STEWARDS DEPARTMENT 70 Grandstand Road Ascot 6104 Email: stewards@rwwa.com.au General Enquiries: (08) 9445 5570 Fax: (08) 9479 3116 RWWA INTEGRITY Integrity Recorded Message Service: 9445 5565 Email: racingintegrity@rwwa.com.au
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Written by Robert Edwards Image: Aussie Platinum Photography Australian folk-pop band Weddings Parties Anything was challenged to write a song about their experience at the iconic Roebourne Cup meeting.
The track was established about 2km east of Roebourne on the North West Coastal Highway, opposite the Roebourne Aerodrome, which was the airport before Karratha was built.
The challenge came as the men stood with a beer in hand and talked of the day’s highlight’s of the Roebourne Cup and the evening concert, where Weddings Parties Anything, had been the star attraction.
Karratha is about 60km away from Roebourne.
Nor-West Jockey Club committeeman David Morgan challenged Michael Taylor to write a song that mentioned the Roebourne meeting. (Morgan is a life member of the club and has represented the NWJC on the Country Racing Association. He also is a singer, song-writer, author and produced the WA Country Racing and Racing West magazines) The next week Taylor wrote “Luckiest Man” to the lyrics of: “Well I might head down to Roebourne for the racing in the spring And if I win on the horses I will step into the ring Toss the coins up high and wide, watch them dance and spin You know the way my luck's been running well it might beanything.” The NWJC celebrates its 150th birthday with the running of the $70,000 Roebourne Cup (2200m) on July 29. The first official meeting of the NWJC was held on August 1 in 1867, because of acute food shortages at Roebourne the club was prevented from holding its inaugural meeting proposed on May 24. A mare named Miss Georgie won the Roebourne Plate. The first white settlers were keen to have entertainment to break the monotony and isolation of their new settlement at Cossack and held their first race soon after landing their horses, for a sovereign on the beach in 1863. The oldest club in WA is York Racing Inc., which held its first race meeting in 1843. The site for the NWJC has changed a few times – it was on the left side of the road to the landing at Butcher’s Inlet near Cossack. It was later moved to its present site at Roebourne, which was declared a town on August 17 1866. The town was named after Septimus Roe who was the surveyor general, who had surveyed the town.
The track is a spacious being 2000m in circumference and 18m wide with a 400m straight and has three starting chutes. The racecourse sits on 78.912ha of land on crown lease, after the club sold the land to the Shire Of Roebourne in 1976-77, because it could not afford the costs to upgrade its facilities to meet the demands of an increased population and to cater for professional racing, after being run as a picnic meeting. Cyclones have traditionally caused problems for the club but cyclone Orson flattened the facilities in 1988 and for two years the club had to survive on “make-shift” facilities. They bought a shed from a construction site at Dampier. It was dismantled and transported to the racecourse, where it had to be erected by contractors and with the assistance of the committee and volunteers. To raise more than $400,000 needed in funds for the infrastructure project the club’s committee had to go as guarantors for the loans to be approved, as the club did not have the money. The 50m x 39m shed with a 10m veranda was built on its concrete footings and to this day provides the club with the best hospitality and facilities in the north. The current site of the racecourse came under another threat just prior to the shed being purchased, when a lucrative offer was put on the table by the Kats Football Club for the NWJC to relocate on their grounds at Karratha. “Before the club built the new shed there was a proposal to move the racecourse and it caused a lot of contention,” Morgan said. “Clarke Cooper was the Kats president and also was the shire president. “He tried to convince the new committee that instead of rebuilding on the old ground that we should relocate into Karratha. “Karratha was booming and it made a lot of sense. “I was against it and so were some others on the committee, but we needed to consider the financial benefits. “Lorraine Wielgomasz, who is the mother of current committeeman and starter Darren Wielgomasz, started a petition to stop it. “She came up to me and gave me a mouthful …. that was before she knew I was on her side. Features RACING AHEAD - July - 3
Roebourne Continued “Roebourne Cup day was our cash cow for the year. “The Kats Football Club would have the bar and we would get a percentage of the bar. “But we wanted to be masters of our own destiny.” The controversial issue of moving the track raised its ugly head again during the “noughties”, but was abandoned after strong community resistance. TAB distribution has been the lifeblood of racing clubs and during the bad recession days 1990s new models of distribution had to be invented to continual the survival of the larger clubs. Roebourne had to adapt and saw its six annual meetings reduced to four. “We had a vision for the cups to start off at the end of July in Broome and follow on down the coast to Carnarvon,” Morgan said. “That didn’t quite come off but we did get more funding for the bigger clubs. “Unfortunately a few of the smaller clubs went by the wayside. “There was a Pilbara Racing Association formed in the early 1970s, but that was disbanded and the Country Racing Association was introduced in the late 80’s to represent all country clubs in WA.
“The work done back then has sustained the club up until the current generation and will continue to sustain the club. “The building runs itself because of the way we designed it, with its TAB, patron and administrative facilities. “The community there has been so strong and continues to be very strong in its support of the club.” The NWJC was the first club to introduce Cup day concerts where such iconic country singers as Lee Kernaghan and James Blundell and famed Australian bands as Weddings Parties Anything and WA iconic band The Troupadores performed swelling numbers at the Cup in the heyday of the mining boom in the late eighties to several thousand people. Morgan was a member of the local band “The Mugshots”. It would be remiss to write about the history of NWJC and racing in the Pilbara and not mention the Nor-West breds. Those hearty and intelligent animals were the backbone of racing in the region for decades and not only provided pleasure, but were work horses at the stations and were a source of income, being exported to India for the British army.
“I was on the executive and did the marketing and promotion side of country racing.”
There is a photo of a grey horse called Chance who was ridden by local lad P Larkin who won a hurdle race in 1887. Local horses would be ridden up to 100km away, run in several races and then be ridden back home.
Morgan was invited to join the NWJC by then president Ian Duncan in 1987 and stayed on the committee until he left the region a decade later.
The iron ore boom of the 1970s brought a new population to the Nor-West and the domination of the Nor-West horse diminished and became extinct with professional racing.
He has always maintained a strong passion for the club and to the land of the Pilbara.
Once all the races at Roebourne were for district-bred horses. Now with the advent of high stake-money racing in the NW, racing is exclusive to thoroughbreds prepared by southern trainers.
“There was a very strong community atmosphere,” Morgan said. “We just got involved an loved doing what we were doing. “It became like a drug for me, I was so passionate. “It caused some issues with my wife because I was spending so much time doing work for the club and working out at the track.
Some of the men who lived and cleared the harsh lands for stock also had a good knowledge of thoroughbred bloodlines. The dual Perth Cup winner (1890-92) Wandering Willie was a product of the Nor-West. It was said Wandering Willie fretted for his home when he was taken south.
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Roebourne Continued Wandering Willie won 16 races and was returned home to Munda to become a station sire where his offspring continued his legacy in the Nor-West.
“The most interesting thing I find about Australia is that if you go through the history of most regional towns they would have racecourses and those clubs gave the region a rich history.
Champion mare Betsy Bourke, who won the Karrakatta Plate, All Aged Stakes and Railway Stakes, was bred on the coastal plains. She was a foal of station sire Le Var out of the Munda-bred mare called Laura.
“If you want to find the history of a town go back to the race club because all of the dignitaries would have been on the committee.
Other successful thoroughbred to come from Munda were Rathlea, the winner of the Toorak Handicap, Lock Shiel, winner of the 1909 Perth Cup and Macadam, who won the 1918 Perth Cup and 1920 Australian Cup. Warrawagine, on the Oakland River east of Marble Bar, had many well-bred sires including Glade, Dixie’s Land and Exploit.
“It is a great starting point. “I am now based in Perth but I still help out the NWJC with any help they need for promotions. “I am still involved in the Country Racing Association. “The funny thing I have only ever owned one horse, called English Romance and she won one race at Roebourne. “I never got to her run because I was living in Adelaide.
De Grey Station, about 80km east of Port Hedland, had good sires and mares too, where in the early 1900s some 300 horses ran.
“We introduced bands on Cup days and the rest of the racing industry followed us.
Tremolite, by Georgie Mentor, who was by 1888 Melbourne Cup winner Mentor, was a top De Grey-bred mare.
“There would be several thousand people on our Cup day in the 80’s and 90’s.
She won the Ascot Thousand, which was one of the feature races of the unregistered meetings conducted in Victoria by the famous businessman and bookie John Wrenn.
“We would lose money at the start of the season but make our profit on Cup day.
Other De Grey horses of note included Merrick, by Orel, who won the Kalgoorlie Cup; Lustre, by Sparkle, who won the Goodwood Cup; Yanacre, by Sparkle; Dusty, by Susarion and Taxation were other southern winners. The de Grey stallion Orel was a full brother to the 1908 VRC Oaks winner Nushka; Sparkle won the 1912 Perth Cup and Onkaparinga Cup; Harpist, who won the AJC Plate and was second in the AJC Derby and Randwick Plate; Susarion won the WATC St Leger and was second in a Railway Stakes; Land Of Nod a winner at Ascot and Flemington; Gladswood, a winner of two-year-old races at Randwick and was third in the Peter Pan Stakes and Rojilla in the Chelsford Stakes in the 1930s. JFG Robinson of Coongan trained three Perth Cup winners – Macadam (1918), Picaro (1935) and Tomito (1939, when he retired to Redcliffe. Station sires produced many other winners in the Nor-West; including Avergne, who won three Port Hedland Cups (1950, 51 and 53), but there are too many to name them all here.
“There was a great comradely in the club and the community then and that still exists to this day.” Reference on the Nor-West breds was taken from an extract from District Bred Racing in the North-West – Is It Dying written by Judith Stove.
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“Nor-West bred were created through necessity,” Morgan, an Englishman from South Gloucestershire, who migrated to WA said. “Somebody who had the smarts thought they needed a horse who could move fast across the spinifex country. “If they could get the speed of a thoroughbred and mix it with a station mare they could create a tough and fast animal within a few generations that was adapted. “Also they wanted something to race because that was their entertainment. “Don Hammarquist (who bred and owned 2010 the Karrakatta Plate winner Motion Pictures) was the last guy I know who was breeding Nor-West breds. “The fact they bred horses for the British arm y in India I think is remarkable. “I have no idea how they captured that market. “I heard that somebody had been in the army and because the Indian terrain was tough like the Nor-West told them they could supply horses that suited their conditions. “It would have lasted only 20 or 30 years.
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Written by Taylor Courtland
Metropolitan premierships
Grant Williams’ racing resume reads as well as any in the game. Just in his time in the thoroughbred game, he has won a WA Derby, Oaks, Champions Fillies to go with Perth Cups and the 2015 Kingston Town Classic where he trained the quinella and fourth place.
“We obviously have to maintain our own tracks, but have only ourselves to rely on to do trackwork,” he said. “The farm is very important to how we do things.”
However, the WA Trainers Premiership is missing from his honour roll.
It certainly has worked well this season with stars such as Very Tempting, Royal Star and Awaken emerging from the Williams’ stables.
It would take a miracle for Williams to be denied his first metropolitan premiership this season.
Awaken won the 1000 Guineas at Ascot, a lead up to the WA Oaks, before injury struck.
He said the premiership had not been something he strived for until last year.
Very Tempting won the Group 3 WA Oaks and Royal Star won the Natasha Stakes in fine fashion.
“It hasn’t been a goal really until last year when Alana and I both had our trainer’s licences and we took a look at it and if we were a partnership we could have won it then,” he said.
The trio were the star three-year-old fillies of the autumn and could be the star mares of the summer.
“It most definitely means more being with Alana also.
Grant said there were no set plans for their preparations, but the mares series could be a likely option.
“Her ability to ride them is a major reason why we got into the thoroughbreds in the first place.”
Another notch in Team Williams belt has been the brilliant rise to stardom of Chocolate Holic.
Team Williams were approaching 70 metropolitan wins at the end of June with a month left in the 2016/17 season.
A horse Alana bred, trained and owns who is now in the care of Darren Weir in Victoria.
They had notched 304 starters by June 20 for an astonishing strike rate of 22 per cent and prize money just under $4m for connections.
He will be tested in top company with a trip back to WA for the TABtouch Masters still a viable option if he does not measure up.
20 wins behind Grant and Alana was Simon Miller and the partnership of Jason Miller and Geoff Durrant had won 46 times with one meeting left in June.
“He won a trial and Darren has some suitable races for him,” he said.
The trio of star trainers along with Neville Parnham, Daniel Morton, Fred Kersley and Lindsay Smith had all eclipsed the $1m mark in prize money.
“He’s been a surprise, Alana has a passion for breeding and her broodmares, but hadn’t had a lot of success in Saturday grade.
Grant, with wife and former jockey Alana, started the training partnership at the beginning of this season and if possible, have only strengthened their team. It is rare for the Williams team to go to a metropolitan meeting without several chances. Having the ability to train and work horses on their own property is a big advantage according to Grant. Like Lindsay Smith and Jim Taylor, amongst others, team Williams has tracks at their home near Mandurah.
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“He will have some runs during the spring and we will see how he measures up.
“Then this guy came along and won a Northam Cup and ran second in a Group 3 to Vega Magic.” Chocolate Holic joined the convey of WA trained horses to shift east over the autumn and winter periods. Star Exhibit, Neverland and Military Reign were among the others to board a plane. “It is basically through a lack races for the better horses,” Grant said. “There has been a bit of talk about the ratings system here in WA and the horse numbers are too low, but I think there is obviously enough
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good horses were we could have higher rating races.” The Williams’ success has come hand-in-hand with the continued dominance of William Pike. The star hoop has again taken out another riding premiership and was approaching the 100 metro win mark ahead of the June 24 meeting at Belmont. His strike rate was also at 22 percent, riding one winner every five attempts.
The win was punctuated by a perfect pose on the line by Pike who found the on course photographer like it was all scripted. Jarrad Noske and Brad Parnham round out the top three in the jockey premiership with 41 and 40 wins respectively. Aaron Mitchell is snapping at their heels with 39 wins as of June 22. He has been a breakout start this season, outriding his claim and steering star gallopers First Among Equals and Seannie to big victories.
From his first 427 rides of the season, Pike had finished in the top three on 216 occasions. A little down on his performance last season however, although that was a record breaking 2015/16 season were Pike rode 135 metro winners. The most memorable win came in the Group 2 Ted Van Heemst Stakes at Ascot in the lead up to the Perth Cup. The race produced two of the most memorable rides of the season with Matthieu Autier tearing away on the leader and despised outsider Fathoms Of Gold. He was almost 15 lengths in front turning for home with the field chasing, he was only caught in the shadows of the post by Pike aboard the Williams-trained Perfect Reflection.
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Community TAB has come on as a Major Sponsor of the WA Integrated State Team who will compete against all other states in Queensland in July.
Community TAB was a Major Sponsor and Category Sponsor of the Parks & Leisure WA Awards of Excellence for a second year in a row this year.
The players are chosen from the West Australian Amateur Football League (WAAFL) Integrated Football Program which was launched seven years ago following several WAAFL clubs who identified a need for people with intellectual disabilities who wanted to participate in their local club.
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WAAFL Integrated Football Program Co-Ordinator Greg Gilbee said it means the world to the players to be a part of the State Integrated Team. “It is recognition of their terrific character, personal values, commitment and application. The players understand they are representing the clubs who nominated them, the Program and the wider community, so selection comes with a great deal of pride and responsibility,” Mr Gilbee said.
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“Having Community TAB as a sponsor helps to raise our profile in the Community, provides a wonderful opportunity for partnership where everybody wins, and the Community TAB brand is well known and respected for the work being done in the WA Community, so the Integrated Program is just so grateful. “Yes the footy is great but it goes way deeper, it actually changes people’s lives and it doesn’t get any more significant than that.” Community TAB has been a sponsor of the Wembley Integrated Football team since 2016, and is thrilled to further our support of the Program at a State level.
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Perth Feature Races
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This will enhance the chances of your horse finding the right home sooner.
All horses will be advertised at an agreed price ONO. Horses will NOT be advertised for free.
Colts will not be advertised, they must be gelded before advertised.
Sharon Joyce
Safeguard standing at
Equine Welfare Officer - Off The Track
Oakland Park Stud
70 Grandstand Road ASCOT WA 6104 Direct: (08) 9445 5146 Mobile: 0438 746 487 Email: sharon.joyce@rwwa.com.au
rwwa.com.au
Neville Duncan 0417 200 097 oaklandparkstud@bigpond.com www.oaklandparkstud.com.au
service fee $8,800 inc gst. (conditions apply)