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Kris Lees has won four of the eight Provincial or Provincial Midway Championship Finals and Newcastle’s premier trainer is confident one or two of his team will qualify for the 2023 final on Thursday. Lees has four runners in the Newcastle Jockeys Clubs Polytrack Provincial-…

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s bold front runner Cross Talk courtesy of a familiar ‘catch me if you can’ ride by Tim Clarke was too classy for the opposition in Friday’s Group 3 Horsepower Newcastle Stakes (1400m). Declared a weighted good thing by form experts…

Race 1 – Novocastrian Electrical Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2300m Don Quixote is in good form, and he steps up to this trip for the first time. He was an easy winner over 1850m on this track three starts back and he has been…

Gai Waterhouse and Kris Lees have both won four Group 3 Newcastle Newmarket’s, and the pair will have representatives in Friday’s $200,000 Group 3 Newcastle Stakes, formerly the Newcastle Newmarket – the major event in the first half of the year for the Newcastle Jockey…

Scone filly More Than A Star landed a long priced plunge for connections when she led all the way to win the MBIB 2yo Maiden Plate (900m) at Saturdays Newcastle race meeting. Don’t be fooled by More Than A Star’s starting price of $31 as…

Race 1- Master Builders Association Provincial 3YO & Up Maiden Handicap 900m Lazulite is on debut after an all the way trial win on the Beaumont track. The three-year-old, bred and owned by Gerry Harvey is very quick and has drawn nicely. Ash Morgan trialled…

Impeccably bred three-year-old filly Petersham, who was responsible for an eye-catching debut performance on this track on February 4 is set to atone in the Coastline Cleaning and Maintenance F&M Maiden Handicap (1400m) at Saturday’s Newcastle meeting. The filly is a blueblood, being a daughter…

There were excited trainers young and old celebrating at the Wine Country Race Club’s Beaumont track race meeting on Monday. The racing kicked off with the NHN Group F&M Benchmark 58 Handicap (1350m), and what a result for young Wyong trainer Nikki Hodgson. Hodgson only…

Hunter Valley mare Apache Jewel caused a huge boilover at the Newcastle Jockey Club’s race meeting on Saturday when she won her first race at her 21st start. With her trainer Ben Lees absent from the meeting as he was inspecting yearlings at the Inglis…

Talented 3-year-old Kings Duty makes his second appearance on Newcastle Beaumont track on Monday and all eyes are on the boom gelding. The exosphere youngster bred, and part owned by Gerry Harvey is trained by Mark Minervini and he will contest the Vale Jim Johnstone…

Race 1 – Prosperity Smart Drive 2 YO Maiden Handicap 900m Full Revolution is on debut after trialling well on city tracks. Her last trial at Warwick Farm she got back and was held up in the straight before running on nicely with no pressure.…

Only a few Australian jockeys have ridden more winners than Brad Rawiller and he has arrived in Sydney to try his luck in the strongest jockeys room in the world. He will have his first New South Wales mount this time around at Newcastle on…