Kris Lees has trained the winner of three of the seven Polytrack Provincial Championship Finals and last Thursday Newcastle’s leading trainer gave notice that he can make it four in 2022. There is a change to conditions in 2022 after...
- Monday, February 28 2022
Race 1: Sharp Office 3YO & Up Maiden Handicap 900m So Sassy has never been placed in nine starts but this is a winnable race. She was on speed all the way when beaten 2 lengths on this track two...
- Friday, February 25 2022
The Freedman brothers training partnership will send a team of five to the Newcastle Jockey Club’s Saturday race meeting. The 4yo mare Head On Up appears the stables best chance when she resumes from a spell in the MyBig Benchmark...
- Friday, February 25 2022
Race 1: Horsepower Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2300m Import Aquileon has his chance to win his first race for the Lees stable. Since arriving from Victoria he was narrowly beaten first up at Armidale and last start he was...
- Wednesday, February 23 2022
The 2022 Polytrack Provincial – Midway Championships series kicks off at Newcastle on Thursday when a capacity field of sixteen will face the starter in the first qualifier. The winner and runner up will progress to the $500,000 Final to...
- Wednesday, February 23 2022
Leading provincial jockey Grant Buckley has predicted a bright future for the unbeaten Godolphin 3yo Tipitina after he piloted the gelding to an outstanding win in the Prosperity Advisers Group Benchmark 64 Handicap (1600m) at the Newcastle race meeting on...
- Tuesday, February 15 2022
Race 1 – EngageVR Maiden Handicap 1200m Amathuba deserves to break through after being placed in all four starts. She has been placed three times on the Newcastle track. First up over the unsuitable 900m trip on this track on...
- Friday, February 11 2022
Leading trainer Gerald Ryan is hoping for a Good 4 rated track at Newcastle on Saturday when his lightly raced 4yo Adulting has her third race start in the Prosperity Advisers Group Benchmark 64 Handicap (1600m). Ryan and Sterling Alexiou...
- Friday, February 11 2022
Annual General Meeting The Newcastle Jockey Clubs Annual General Meeting was held at the Newcastle Racecourse on December 4. The NJC returned a profit of $3,292,427 for the year ending June 30, 2021, It must be pointed out that the...
- Wednesday, February 9 2022
Novocastrians Kris Lees, Nathan Doyle and Dylan Gibbons all enjoyed success at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Saturday. Lees’ unbeaten 4yo Fleet Air Arm resumed from an eleven month spell with a brilliant win in the 900m Benchmark...
- Monday, February 7 2022