Racing News

Newcastle trainer Mark Minervini will be hoping for a change of luck when he takes unraced three-year-old King’s Duty to the Beaumont track race meeting on Monday. The gelding bred and part owned by Gerry Harvey has been undefeated in three barrier trials.  He won…

Race 1 – Sharp Office Conditional Benchmark 68 Handicap 1600m Piraeus is in great form, and he steps up to the 1600m trip. He landed a plunge to win at Gosford three starts back and then carried 60kgs to win at Muswellbrook. Last start he…

The father and son training partnership of Richard and Will Freedman, enjoying a successful first half of the 2022-23 season with 31.5 winners in two states will send two well fancied gallopers to Saturdays Newcastle race meeting on the Course Proper. The promising Merchant Navy…

Newcastle Racecourse’s Course Proper received high praise from leading jockeys when it hosted the NJC’s first meeting of 2023 on Tuesday. It was the Course Proper’s first meeting for six weeks and it raced magnificently. Gosford trained Border Control which has an interesting history had…

Race 1 – Sharp Office Provincial 2&3YO Maiden Plate 900m Soobooco will be a short-priced favourite and looks the winner. He hasn’t raced since August but trialled okay behind a fast horse recently. He has been runner up in two of his three starts in…

The Newcastle Jockey Club will stage its first meeting of the year at the Newcastle Racecourse on Tuesday. The Clubs two meetings in December were held on the Beaumont track however the Course Proper will host Tuesday’s meeting. Local trainer Mark Minervini is expected to…

Andrew Gibbons heads to his home track with a solid book of rides at the Newcastle Boxing Day race meeting to be run on the Beaumont track. Gibbons has a full book of rides on the seven-race program, and two of his better rides are…

  Kris Lees’ five-year-old French Marine made a successful return to racing with an effortless three length victory in the Tozer Air & Electrical Benchmark 68 Handicap (1150m) at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Beaumont track race meeting on Saturday. French Marine had not raced since…

Race 1 – Tozer Air & Electrical Benchmark 64 Handicap 2100m Onemore Sapphire came from well back when runner up in the Taree Cup two starts back. He has been placed in middle distance events at Randwick and Hawkesbury this preparation. He has 60 ½…

Former Victorian 4-year-old Edge Of Reward, runner up in all four starts for Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle is set to break through in the Tozer Air & Electrical Provincial Maiden Plate (1350m) at the Beaumont (Newcastle) track on Saturday. The lightly raced gelding has been…

Aaron Bullock rounded off the week with a double at Newcastle on Saturday, taking his tally to eight winners from four meetings since Tuesday. He rode three winners at Tamworth on Tuesday, one at Coffs Harbour on Thursday, another double at Mudgee on Friday and…

Race 1 – Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service 4YO & Up Maiden Handicap 1400m Fudai has been runner up in his two Newcastle starts and he should break through. Second up on November 22, he came from near last in a big field when beaten half…