Racing News

Scone trainer Jeremy Gask will drive down the Hunter Expressway to the Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday confident that the talented galloper in the float he is towing can complete a hat trick of wins. The Newcastle Jockey Club will host the annual Clubs in The…

Race 1- Beresfield Bowling Club Maiden Plate 900m As expected the race will be a cracker over the short course with all but a couple possessing genuine speed. Xpresso is unbeaten in two trials since joining the Nathan Doyle stable and he is quick. He…

Race 1- New Zealand Bloodstock 2YO Maiden Plate 900m Mura Mura is a fast filly who sat outside the leader before hanging badly on the home turn when beaten 3 lengths first up on the Kensington track on June 16. She was placed in a…

New South Wales country’s boom apprentices Reece Jones and Dylan Gibbons will be both riding at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Saturday. It will be the first race meeting in which the NJC’s $4 Million race day stables will be in operation. Jones,…

27 year old Kiwi jockey Alysha Collett rode a career best five winners at the Newcastle race meeting on Saturday. A member of the famous New Zealand racing family, Collett the sister of one of Sydney’s best jockeys Jason Collett, has settled in the Sydney…

Gosford trainer Adam Duggan is confident his talented 5yo Fantastic Baby is spot on and ready to win on his return to racing at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting. He will contest the final event, the 1400m New Zealand Bloodstock CG&E Benchmark 64 Handicap.…

Race 1- Prosperity Advisors Group Maiden Plate 900m Highly Ambitious is a highly well-bred 2 year old filly in the Lees stable. She is on debut after a nice trial at Gosford recently, she has drawn well and has speed. Arimathea is first up and…

Hall Of Fame The Newcastle and Hunter Racing Hall of Fame recognises the contribution of legendary horses and humans in shaping our thoroughbred racing industry in the Newcastle and Hunter region over the past 115 years. The inaugural induction into the Hall of Fame took…

Boom 2yo filly Satin Ribbons overcame a three wide run without cover to narrowly win the 900 metre Australian Bloodstock 2 Year Old Maiden at the Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. The Snowden trained daughter of Golden Slipper winner Capitalist has had a boom on her…

Race 1- Sharp Office Maiden Plate 1200m Orbital Express is talented but she has a bad habit of walking out of the barrier. On debut at Scone on April 20 she was second last in a field of fourteen at the top of the straight…

Peter and Paul Snowden will send their blueblood two year old filly Satin Ribbons to Newcastle on Saturday to contest the 900 metre Australian Bloodstock 2YO Maiden Plate. Satin Ribbons displayed explosive speed to win barrier trials by big margins at Rosehill, Gosford and Randwick…

LEES WINS ANOTHER PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP Kris Lees won his third Polytrack Provincial Championship Final when Irish Import Cristal Breeze out-gunned another Novocastrian in Pandano to narrowly win the coveted final on April 17 at Randwick. Cristal Breeze, one of six finalists prepared by Lees, overcame…