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Race 1 – Lamborne Partners Insurance Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2200m Hampden has put the writing on the wall with two close seconds in his past two starts. He was very unlucky when beaten a noose on this track on April 1 after being…

Wyong based apprentice Anna Ropa has seven mounts including two for the Waterhouse-Bott stable on Saturday’s eight race program at Newcastle. Roper has ridden 39.5 winners this season including 10.5 winners on Metropolitan tracks, but she still claims 1.5 kilograms on Provincial tracks. The first…

Local trainer Kris Lees has accepted with three talented three-year-old’s at the Newcastle Racecourse race meeting on Tuesday and the trio will be ridden by Andrew Gibbons. Lees three 3-year-olds are Flame Of Hestia (R2), Lutetia (R6) and Road to Paradise (R7). Flame Of Hestia…

Monday’s Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting on the Beaumont track was a favourite punter delight with six favourites successful on the seven-race program. The most impressive winner on the day was the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott trained mare Love And Light which out-classed her…

Gary Harley – Wrap – 20.03.25 Talented Wyong galloper Matcha Latte surged into outright favoritism for the Provincial Midway Championship final at Randwick on April 12 following his impressive win in the Qualifier at Newcastle last Thursday. Matcha Latte with new rider Ash Morgan aboard…

Rachel King only has one mount at the Newcastle Jockey Club’s race meeting on The Beaumont track on Monday and a recent barrier trial indicates the trip up the M1 won’t be in vain. King has been booked for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrain Bott…

The Newcastle Jockey Club will host a Provincial Midway Championship Qualifier on Thursday and the 1400 metre event has attracted a capacity field and with this qualifier open to Provincial trained horses and those under the care of midway eligible trainers it is a high-quality…

Race 1 – DAILEY FAMILY FUNERALS  2YO MAIDEN PLATE 1200M Buffalo is a promising colt dropping sharply in class after two eye catching performances in Group 2 events in Sydney recently. He has no speed but flashes home at the end of 1100 or 1200…

Central Coast based jockey Tim Clark rode his second Group 3 Horsepower Newcastle Stakes winner on Friday. In 2023 Clark steered the Waterhouse-Bott trained Cross Talk to victory and on Friday he was aboard the Bjorn Baker trained Sandpaper, the heavily backed $3 second favourite.…

Race 1 – Allied The Careful Movers Provincial Maiden Plate 1600 Literature Tycoon is yet to place in four starts but last prep he was a close fourth in two Hawkesbury starts. She was slowly away first up on this track on February 1when she…

Talented 4-year-old mare Makarena is set to deliver the Hawkes stable with its fifth success in the time-honoured Group 3 Horsepower Newcastle Stakes on Friday. Previously known as the Newcastle Newmarket the race was first run in 1955 and it’s the first Provincial Group race…

The Newcastle Jockey Club hosted one of its most successful Saturday race meetings at the weekend. It was the Dungog Cup race day which featured a seven-race program highlighted by a cracking line up in the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship Qualifier. The icing…