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Enigmatic mare Air To Air stunned racegoers at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday when she overcame a horror start to win the final event, the Saddingtons Building Supplies Benchmark 64 Handicap (1300m). Air To Air was an acceptor at both Randwick and Newcastle on Saturday, and trainer…

Race 1- Mavid Mares Hunter Stayers Cup- Benchmark 68 Handicap 2900m Dunlee is yet to win a race, but he is racing well and looks like he will run the tough trip. He handles wet or dry tracks and is in career best form. Monreal…

Newcastle 17-year-old apprentice Bailey Wheeler had a wonderful 2021/22 season in which he rode 53 winners, and there may be more to come at the Newcastle Jockey Club’s race meeting on Saturday. Wheeler, with close friend Dylan Gibbons riding at Rosehill on Saturday has been…

Former Canberra trainer Luke Pepper celebrated his recent move to Scone when his stayer Zounique raced clear late to win the Belmont 16’s Benchmark 64 Handicap at the Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation Raceday at Newcastle on Saturday. Wyong based apprentice Anna Roper settled Zounique at…

Race 1- Club Macquarie 2YO Handicap 1400m The Waterhouse-Bott stable have accepted with their 2-year-old’s Uncorked and Vinnie’s Spirit in the first two races. Uncorked, a filly by Pierro was runner up on debut in the Max Lees Classic in November. She then finished second…

Newcastle’s crack apprentice Dylan Gibbons has decided not to ride on Metropolitan tracks again this season. He knocked back mounts at Rosehill on Saturday and is staying home for a near full book at Newcastle. Gibbons has already ridden 12 metropolitan winners and another eight…

Kris Lees may have been holidaying overseas with his family, but that did not prevent his talented 2yo Flag Of Honour landing the biggest Provincial track plunge in years at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. The unraced gelding, owned by long time clients of the Lees…

Race 1- Australian Bloodstock & Lees Racing Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2340m Ausbred Bluebird was narrowly beaten here two starts back before a strong Goulburn win. Overthink will run the trip and Sure Strategy can fill a place. Selections: 6- Ausbred Bluebird             2-…

Chris Waller’s American bred mare Frumos, a 4 ¾ length winner on debut on this track on June 11 can take the next step when she runs in the All Pro Chemicals & Coastal Fire Services Class 1 Handicap (1400m) at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Club…

Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle saddled up his 53rd winner for the season when bonnie mare Miss Scalini nudged out the Kris Lees trained I Want One to win the Greenway Turf Solutions Benchmark 66 Handicap (1350m) at Monday’s Newcastle meeting. Miss Scalini arrived at Doyle’s…

The Newcastle Jockey Club has a seven race program set down for decision on the course proper on Monday. It is a country class Wine Country Race Club meeting originally scheduled for the Beaumont track, and the rail is out 11 metres the entire circumference.…

Australia’s champion trainer Chris Waller was in England preparing for this week’s Royal Ascot carnival when his talented American bred mare Frumos produced the run of the day at Saturday’s Newcastle race meeting. The four-year-old, owned by the powerful Orbis Bloodstock was on debut after…