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Kris Lees flying filly Designer Maid smashed the Newcastle 900 metre record in the opening event on Saturday. Designer Maid was the $2.20 favourite in a quality Class 2 Handicap and she led from the outset. Second favourite Invincible Lad ($3.80) sat on the outside…

Race 1 Maddison Safety Industrial Supplies Class 2 900m Designer Maid is a fast filly which led all the way for an easy win over this trip here first up. She has won two from three and from the soft draw she will take some…

Newcastle Jockey Club hosted one of its best racedays of the year at the Newcastle Racecourse on Sunday. It was the second Legends Race Day with races recognising the three NJC Legends. Max Lees, Robert Thompson and Gary Harley. Family and friends of the legends…

Members Preview- 30.11.18   Race 1- Gary Harley Benchmark 64 2300m Allzin is the clear stayer and will carry 60 ½ kilograms after the claim. He was runner up in the Taree Cup in August and he hit the line well to win over 166…

Cessnock Cup Wrap Warwick Farm pair Keep Up and Hirokin engaged in a two horse war in the final 200 metres of the 2018 Hungerford Hill Cessnock Cup at Newcastle on Wednesday. Former Kiwi Keep Up ($2) prevailed by a short neck from Hirokin ($5.50)…

Members Preview- Race 1- XXXX Gold Showcase Class 2 900m Designer Maid and Rouge Runner clashed in a recent Gosford barrier trial and there was little between the pair. Designer Maid led in the trial with Rouge Runner in second place and they crossed the…

The $50,000 Sky Racing Spring Provincial Series Heat 4 was held at Newcastle on Sunday and local trainer Kris Lees had the numbers and collected the $22,000 first prize. Lees saddled up four of the eight runners, however Kim Waugh’s King Hewitt was the heavily…

Race 1- Sharp Electrical Group Class 2- 900m The unbeaten New Zealand bred filly Kedah will be at short odds and it is hard to go past her. First up from a spell, Kedah careered away in the straight to easily win a Class 2…

Jungle Juice Cup Graham Payne a former Cessnock sporting hero returned to his home town to achieve a lifetime ambition when his sprinter Kentucky Flyer blitzed a classy field in the Cessnock Leagues Club Jungle Juice Cup on October 12. The famous Jungle Juice Cup,…

Leading Provincial jockey Mitchell Bell landed a treble and the evergreen Robert Thompson a double at the Pacific National Westpac Rescue Helicopter Race Day at Newcastle on Saturday. Bell a previous Newcastle Premiership winner, steered home the first two winners for the powerful Snowden stable.…

RACE 1 WITH LOVE FOR ZAC 2YO MAIDEN PLATE 900M A very competitive field of two-year-olds on debut, with a number of leading Sydney stables represented. The two that caught the eye in the trials, were the Mark Newnham filly Blazing Miss and the Snowden’s…

Newcastle jockey Andrew Gibbons’ dream start to the current racing season continued on his home track on Saturday when he rode three winners and two placings. Gibbons for the first time in his career lead the New South Wales Jockeys Premiership with 47 winners, three…