Gary Harley’s Updates

Central Coast based jockey Tim Clark rode his second Group 3 Horsepower Newcastle Stakes winner on Friday. In 2023 Clark steered the Waterhouse-Bott trained Cross Talk to victory and on Friday he was aboard the Bjorn Baker trained Sandpaper, the...

Race 1 – Allied The Careful Movers Provincial Maiden Plate 1600 Literature Tycoon is yet to place in four starts but last prep he was a close fourth in two Hawkesbury starts. She was slowly away first up on this...

Talented 4-year-old mare Makarena is set to deliver the Hawkes stable with its fifth success in the time-honoured Group 3 Horsepower Newcastle Stakes on Friday. Previously known as the Newcastle Newmarket the race was first run in 1955 and it’s...

The Newcastle Jockey Club hosted one of its most successful Saturday race meetings at the weekend. It was the Dungog Cup race day which featured a seven-race program highlighted by a cracking line up in the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial...

RACE 1 – LOVEY’S GROCERS IGA SUPER 2YO MAIDEN PLATE (900 METRES) Mednyi is very quick and shared the lead when beaten less than a length first up on this track on February 15. In his only other start in...

The Newcastle Jockey Club hosts a cracking Qualifier of the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship on Saturday which is also the Settlers Arms Dungog Cup Race Day. 2024 Group 3 Cameron Handicap runner up Matcha Latte resumes from a...

Gary Harley – Wrap – 18.02.25 Former Newcastle Knights first grader Darren Treacy, who trained his first starter at Muswellbrook in November 2023, was on cloud nine after saddling up his first winner at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting...

Rubi’s Serve who is racing well on the Newcastle tracks is well placed in the final event at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Mark Minervini’s mare has drawn perfectly in barrier three in the 1400 metre The...

Hawkesbury based senior jockey Grant Buckley returned to Newcastle for the first time in more than eight months to steer home a treble at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting. Buckley, who has ridden more than 2500 winners, only returned...

Race 1 – Bonvilla Estate 2YO Maiden Handicap 900m Gaeilge the Godolphin 2-year-old is a speedy colt with clearly the best form. He was only beaten half a length by Comedy in the Kirkham at Randwick in October after leading....