Racing News

Godolphin’s ultra consistent mare Cinsault resumes from a spell with new trainer Michael Freedman at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on the Beaumont track on Saturday and her trial form indicates she is ready to win. Under James Cummings Cinsault was never out of…

The annual Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service race meeting was held on the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Beaumont track on Saturday and while leading provincial jockeys Mitchell Bell and Keagan Latham took the riding  honours with a treble and double respectively. Newcastle based Shannon Llewellyn rode her…

The Newcastle-based Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service is celebrating 50 years of service in the region and the annual race day will be held at the Newcastle Racecourse on the Beaumont track on Saturday. Former Godolphin foreman Nacim Dilmi who took over as the Hong King…

The Newcastle Jockey Club hosted the Tooheys Charity Race Day Supporting Samaritans Christmas Lunch at the Newcastle Racecourse on Sunday. While the healthy crowd enjoyed a day of sunshine it wasn’t a successful day for favourite punters with only one favourite successful on the seven-race…

Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup has trained eight winners this month and he has bright prospects of increasing that number when he sends a float load of gallopers to the Newcastle Jockey Club meeting on Sunday, the last day of November. Good friend Christian Reith rides…

Gary Harley – Wrap – 20.11.25 The stormy weather may not have suited some, however it played into the hands of Canberra trainer Rob Potter and his six-year-old mare Laurel Hill at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Thursday. The seven-race program kicked off…

Gary Harley – Herald – 20.11.25 The Newcastle Jockey Club back up from a highly successful The Hunter race day last Saturday with a seven-race program on the course proper on Thursday. Back in the 1980’s, the champion jockey Ron Quinton rode a freakish grey…

The Newcastle Jockey Club and its magnificent racecourse delivered the most successful The Newcastle Herald Hunter race day on Saturday. It was the seventh edition of the $1 Million Newcastle Herald Hunter and the promotion of the race meeting on Sky Racing, Newcastle Herald and…

The Group 2 Newcastle Herald Hunter Race Day on Saturday has attracted a very talented line up with a capacity field of sixteen plus two emergencies accepting for the $1Million event. Joe Pride has accepted with four sprinters including one of the early favourites,  Coal…

On a day that Arrowfield Stud celebrated the win of freakish mare Autumn Glow at Randwick, their colours were first past the post in a Class 1 Handicap at Newcastle with a potential Group 1 contender. It was the annual Maitland Rugby Club race day,…

The consistent Gosford trained Orthie’s Boys is ready to notch up his fourth win in the 1500 metre Maitland Rugby Cup at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting. Trainer Greg McFarlane has called on 1.5 kilogram claiming apprentice Mollie Fitzgerald to reunite with the five-year-old…

Newcastle apprentice William Stanley completed a busy four days when he steered home two winners at the Wine Country race meeting on the Beaumont track on Monday. Stanley apprenticed to Kris Lees flew to Melbourne to ride his boss’s sprinter Power Of The Brave at…