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Cessnock trained Soobooco and Hawkesbury four-year-old Gallic Fox both landed huge plunges on the heavy track at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. Soobooco, formerly trained by Mark Minervini recently joined the Larry Fairhall stable where the gelding has had two unplaced runs at Muswellbrook and Scone.…

Race 1 – Fay & Kalan’s Memorial Benchmark 64 Handicap 2370m A very competitive staying race with many chances. Montgomery is in good form with wins at Wyong and Nowra in his past four starts. All his recent starts have been on heavy tracks including…

Coffs Harbour trainer Brett Dodson will head south with his boom three-year-old Cool Storm to test the Toronado filly in better company at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Saturday. The filly is very fast, and after an easy debut win at Coffs Harbour…

Jockey Mitchell Bell’s winning treble, and doubles to Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle and the Snowden stable highlighted the Port Stephens Cup race day at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. The track was a Heavy 9 for race one, and with constant rain throughout the day it…

Race 1 – SAL, Lighting A Smarter Future Maiden Handicap 900m Cryptonic is a very fast colt who has led in both starts at Hawkesbury. He was narrowly beaten on debut on a heavy track in a 1100m maiden and was run down when fourth…

The Newcastle Jockey Club’s race meeting on Saturday was postponed after four races as jockeys raised concerns with Stewards relating to the track conditions deteriorating and the visibility following continuing rain throughout the day. Twenty-one-year-old Scone apprentice Braith Nock took his season tally to eighty-one…

Race 1 – NAC Services 2yo Maiden Plate 900m Blue Illusion and Counteroffensive have raced in top two-year-old company, and they are the class runners here. Blue Illusion was placed in the Kirkham Plate in October, and he has trialled nicely for the first up…

James Cummings will send four lightly raced youngsters to Newcastle on Saturday, and the stable has bright prospects in three races. The royal blue colours will be carried by two juveniles in the opening event, the NAC Services 2yo Maiden Plate (900m). The gelding Blue…

The Paul Perry stable notched up its 50th winner of the current season on Saturday as the Newcastle-Hunter Hall of Famer saddled up winners at both Newcastle and Randwick. It was the Hunter Melanoma Foundation Race Day at Newcastle, and the legendary trainer had nine…

Race 1 John Whitmore Memorial Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2340m Former Victorian So Sleek put the writing on the wall when a strong finishing second over 1890m here last start. His only win was on a heavy track and he is bred to run…

Clear Thinking, a four-year-old mare bred by the late Queen Elizabeth makes her eagerly awaited debut at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting. If breeding is any indication, and in addition her outstanding trial form, Clear Thinking could be something special. The mare’s sire Dubawi…

Gary Harley – Wrap- 04.05.24 Local trainer Paul Perry prepared his 47th winner of the season when the stable saddled up two double-figure priced victors on Saturday at Newcastle. Hunter Valley-based jockey Mikayla Weir produced the ride of the day to steer Perry’s New Zealand-bred…