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Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott who are enjoying a great start to the current season with 35 winners Australia wide in less than two months, will send a pair of promising three-year-olds to Newcastle on Tuesday.  The two bluebloods will contest Maiden events at the…

Veteran Newcastle trainer Paul Perry took the training honours on the second day of the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Spring Carnival on Saturday. Perry trained gallopers Florida Sky and Mr Trackside landed hefty plunges in successive races. Newcastle’s premier jockey Aaron Bullock was aboard four-year-old mare…

Newcastle Cup Day Gary Harley – Wrap – 15.09.23 The Newcastle Jockey Club was blessed with 30-degree weather, a perfectly prepared track, big fields in the three Group events and a healthy crowd for Sharp Office Newcastle Cup Day on Friday 15 September.  To put…

Three-year-old filly Left Field will appreciate a massive drop-in class when she resumes from a spell in the Tassel Financial Planning F&M Maiden Plate (1250m) on the second day of the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Spring Racing Carnival on Saturday. The daughter of Deep Field had…

Race 1- GTS Lawn Pride Australia 3&4yo Benchmark 68 Handicap 1600m Last Straw disappointed first up so the blinkers go on this time. She was an easy Warwick Farm winner in her only other start in March. Stablemate The Seven Seas’ all three wins were…

Newcastle trained horses dominate early betting markets for Friday’s $300,000 Group 3 Sharp Office Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m). The Kris Lees pair Cleveland (TAB $4) and Kalapour (TAB $4.80) head the markets with Mark Minervini’s Hosier (TAB $5) third favourite. The trio have all drawn…

Rising five-year-old Ruby Flyer, enjoying his best preparation made a one act affair of the Newcastle Jockey Club’s feature race on Saturday. It was the annual Port Stephens Cup over 1600m, and the talented Ruby Flyer was not popular with punters, drifting to $7.00. The…

Three-year-old filly Announcing, unlucky first up on this track on June 10 can atone in the Klein Tools Benchmark 64 Handicap (1200m) at Saturday’s Newcastle race meeting. The John O’Shea trained filly has only had four starts and she kicked off her career with a…

Lightly raced mare Golden Gate will appreciate a drop in class when she contests The Prince Of Merewether Benchmark 66 Handicap (1350m) at the WCRC meeting to be run on the Beaumont track on Monday. Trained by Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou, the mare has…

Aaron Bullock’s amazing season continued at the weekend when he rode half of the eight-race program at Tamworth on Friday and followed that up with a double at Newcastle on Saturday. The half a dozen winners took his season tally to 157½, which places him…

Race 1 – Kalan’s Memorial Maiden Plate 900m Misty Legend is an odds-on favourite after two recent trial wins at Randwick and Rosehill. The colt was only beaten 2 lengths in a strong 2yo Maiden on the Kensington track in February. Exolent Choice is on…

Local trainer Mark Minervini, who trained five winners in the space of three days recently, is expected to continue his winning run at Saturday’s Newcastle race meeting. Minervini’s lone runner is his stable star and track specialist Super, who runs in the Shane Wilson Painting…