Gary Harley’s Updates

The last of the qualifiers for the $500,000 Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship Final will be held at Newcastle this Thursday. It is the Wildcard and the first three placegetters will head to Randwick for the final on April 8, the...

John Sargent’s three-year-old filly Jolted gave herself a chance of making the field for the upcoming ATC Oaks when she outstayed her opposition to win the Class 1 & Maiden Plate (2100m) at the Wine Country Race Club’s Beaumont track...

Race 1 – New Zealand Bloodstock Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2100m Jolted is the one to beat in an open race. The filly was only beaten a length at Canterbury two starts back and she finished fourth in an...

Promising Gosford trained three-year-old Karedada must contend with an adverse barrier when he returns to racing at the Wine Country Race Club Beaumont track race meeting on Tuesday. Trained by the astute Angela Davies, the gelding has only had two...

Wyong trained gallopers quinellaed the Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championship Qualifier at the Newcastle Racecourse on Thursday. Kim Waugh’s three-year-old True Crime went into the race with good form, but surprisingly drifted in betting markets to $9.50 when the barriers opened. Sydney’s...

Race 1 – Jennings Print Maiden Plate 900m Mellissa is a fast filly resuming after finishing down the track at Hawkesbury in October. She led by 6 lengths in a recent Randwick trial before being eased down win easily. She...

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...

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...

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...

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...