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New South Wales’ two leading apprentices Zac Lloyd and Dylan Gibbons rode the first two winners at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Those punters who took the odds-on about Grand Larceny in the opening event, the PFD Food Services 3yo Maiden Handicap…

Race 1 – PFD Food Services 3YO Maiden Handicap 900m Grand Larceny will be an odds-on favourite, and the colt has genuine speed. He had his only start at Bendigo on September 14 when he was favourite in a 1000m maiden where he led and…

The Hawkes family training partnership have bright prospects of winning the opening two races at Tuesday’s Newcastle race meeting. Leading apprentice Zac Lloyd has been booked to ride the Hawkes pair Grand Larceny and Allapercanto. Grand Larceny will be an odds-on favourite in the PFD…

Former Newcastle trainer Ben Smith, based at Kembla these days, put punters on the back foot in the early stages of Saturdays Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting. Smith who was at Randwick, trained the first two winners at Newcastle at odds of $61 and $21.…

Race 1 – Hunt Hospitality Provincial Benchmark 64 Handicap 1850m Owari was run down late at Hawkesbury last start, and he has been placed twice on this track. He has a positive barrier and 2kgs off for Amy McLucas. Three Wise Men drops in class…

Kris Lees’ three-year-old filly Kind Words can return to the racetrack a winner when she contests the Harcourts Super Maiden (1200m) at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Saturday.  The Written Tycoon filly carries the colours of Lees’ three-time Group 1 winner Lucia Valentina,…

Punters who like betting on favorites had a bonanza at Wine Country Race Club’s meeting on the Beaumont track on Tuesday, when favorites won six of the seven races. The weather was perfect, and the Beaumont track was on fire, and as predicted the powerful…

Race 1 – Coastline Pool & Spa CG&E Maiden Plate 1150m Head Of The Herd resumes from a spell after being runner up in two recent Randwick trials. The Snitzel colt ran on strongly from midfield in his most recent trial.  The Waterhouse-Bott stable have…

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…