Racing News
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Gary Harley – Herald – 20.11.25
Gary Harley – Herald – 20.11.25 The Newcastle Jockey Club back up from a highly successful The Hunter race day last Saturday with a seven-race program on the course proper on Thursday. Back in the 1980’s, the champion jockey Ron Quinton rode a freakish grey…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 15.11.25
The Newcastle Jockey Club and its magnificent racecourse delivered the most successful The Newcastle Herald Hunter race day on Saturday. It was the seventh edition of the $1 Million Newcastle Herald Hunter and the promotion of the race meeting on Sky Racing, Newcastle Herald and…
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Gary Harley – The Newcastle Herald Hunter 2025
The Group 2 Newcastle Herald Hunter Race Day on Saturday has attracted a very talented line up with a capacity field of sixteen plus two emergencies accepting for the $1Million event. Joe Pride has accepted with four sprinters including one of the early favourites, Coal…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 01.11.25
On a day that Arrowfield Stud celebrated the win of freakish mare Autumn Glow at Randwick, their colours were first past the post in a Class 1 Handicap at Newcastle with a potential Group 1 contender. It was the annual Maitland Rugby Club race day,…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 1.11.25
The consistent Gosford trained Orthie’s Boys is ready to notch up his fourth win in the 1500 metre Maitland Rugby Cup at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting. Trainer Greg McFarlane has called on 1.5 kilogram claiming apprentice Mollie Fitzgerald to reunite with the five-year-old…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 27.10.25
Newcastle apprentice William Stanley completed a busy four days when he steered home two winners at the Wine Country race meeting on the Beaumont track on Monday. Stanley apprenticed to Kris Lees flew to Melbourne to ride his boss’s sprinter Power Of The Brave at…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 27.10.25
In form jockey Alyshia Collett had only been booked for three mounts when riders were declared for Mondays Newcastle meeting and all three will be well fancied. It is a seven-event country class meeting to be held on the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Beaumont track. Collett…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 18.10.25
The Jungle Juice Cups and Cessnock Cups were the Newcastle Jockey Clubs major races when the club owned the Cessnock Racecourse for more than 30 years and on Saturday for the first time the Cups will be run on the same program at Newcastle. The…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 07.10.25
Newcastle Jockey Club will host their fourth race meeting in the space of 18 days on Tuesday. John Sargent’s three-year-old filly Autumn Blonde ($3 favourite on TAB) is well placed in the NZB Ready To Run 12 & 13 Nov Class 1 Handicap (1250m). A…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 2.10.25
French-born Nacim Dilmi trained his first Newcastle winner when former top local apprentice Dylan Gibbons produced a masterly ride on Oceanfront at the NJC’s midweek meeting. Oceanfront was a $5 chance in the provincial benchmark 64 handicap (1850 metres) after a close third placing in…
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Newcastle 2024-25 Premiership Awards
2024-25 NJC Premiership Award Winners The Newcastle Jockey Club made presentations to the 2024-25 Premiership winners during the first race meeting of the Spring Racing Carnival on September 19. The following were the Premiership winners: Horse Of the Year: Private Harry- In the season was…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 2.10.25
The Newcastle Jockey Club backs up from a bumper Spring Racing carnival with a strong race midweek meeting on Thursday. Les bridge will send a promising 3-year-old Columbus to Newcastle after he was a ‘good thing’ beaten on the track on debut on September 19.…
