Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle’s rising star Strawb will be a short-priced favourite to win her fourth race in six starts when she steps out in the Australian Bloodstock Benchmark 70 Handicap (1400 metres) at Saturday’s Newcastle meeting. The blueblood, a...
- Friday, July 3 2020
Newcastle’s premier jockey Andrew Gibbons was the only Novocastrian jockey or trainer to taste success at Saturday’s race meeting. “Gibbo” took his season tally to 109 when he piloted the promising Gosford filly Salina Dreaming to victory in the 1200...
- Monday, June 29 2020
Race 1- Sage Painting Class 1 and Maiden Plate 2325m Imported stayer Alakahan is in great form and will be at short odds. The Irish four-year-old has had three Australian starts and has caught the eye of his last two....
- Friday, June 26 2020
The Freedman Brothers training partnership is enjoying a great run of success and could land a treble at the Newcastle race meeting on Saturday. The team will send Alakahan, Kaufusi and Ulysses up the M1 on Saturday and all three...
- Friday, June 26 2020
Richly talented Newcastle mare Strawb barred from racing until she trialled satisfactory twice after her previous start was on her best behaviour when a brilliant winner at Newcastle on Saturday. The four year old is currently trained at Newcastle by...
- Monday, June 22 2020
Boom apprentice Tom Sherry is on the verge of taking out both the NSW Provincial Jockey’s Premiership and the NSW Apprentice Premiership and has seven mounts at Saturday’s Newcastle race meeting. The Irishman has ridden 51 winners on Provincial tracks...
- Friday, June 19 2020
Race 1 – TLE Electrical Newcastle Maiden Handicap 900m Light and Dark was never on the track first up at Hawkesbury and he was only beaten three quarters of a length. He had very good trial form prior to his...
- Friday, June 19 2020
FAREWELL IN HER TIME The wonderful racing career of Newcastle’s best sprinter of late, In Her Time, came to an end on Anzac Day when she was narrowly beaten in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Crown at Rosehill. Typifying the...
- Thursday, June 18 2020
Newcastle’s three-year-old filly Café Royal is likely to head to Brisbane to contest the Group 3 Winx Guineas next month after she got off the canvas to win the 1300 metre Benchmark 70 Handicap at Saturdays Newcastle race meeting. Backed...
- Tuesday, June 9 2020
Members Preview – 06.06.2020 Race 1 New Zealand Bloodstock Maiden Handicap 1850m Send Me Wild was narrowly beaten over a similar trip at Hawkesbury last start. Her all three career runs have been sound and she is ready to...
- Friday, June 5 2020