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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…

RACE 1 – LOVEY’S GROCERS IGA SUPER 2YO MAIDEN PLATE (900 METRES) Mednyi is very quick and shared the lead when beaten less than a length first up on this track on February 15. In his only other start in a Listed race at Caulfield…

The Newcastle Jockey Club hosts a cracking Qualifier of the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship on Saturday which is also the Settlers Arms Dungog Cup Race Day. 2024 Group 3 Cameron Handicap runner up Matcha Latte resumes from a spell and takes on another…

Gary Harley – Wrap – 18.02.25 Former Newcastle Knights first grader Darren Treacy, who trained his first starter at Muswellbrook in November 2023, was on cloud nine after saddling up his first winner at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Treacy’s 3-year-old Dance…

Rubi’s Serve who is racing well on the Newcastle tracks is well placed in the final event at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Mark Minervini’s mare has drawn perfectly in barrier three in the 1400 metre The Adviser Collective Conditional Benchmark 68…

Hawkesbury based senior jockey Grant Buckley returned to Newcastle for the first time in more than eight months to steer home a treble at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting. Buckley, who has ridden more than 2500 winners, only returned to race riding at Kembla…

Race 1 – Bonvilla Estate 2YO Maiden Handicap 900m Gaeilge the Godolphin 2-year-old is a speedy colt with clearly the best form. He was only beaten half a length by Comedy in the Kirkham at Randwick in October after leading. Mednyi finished midfield in a…

In recent years James Cummings has chosen the spacious Newcastle track to kick off the careers of subsequent Group 1 stars Cylinder and Broadsiding and on Saturday he will send another promising two-year-old Gaeilge to the Newcastle Racecourse to contest the opening event the 900…

The Gai Waterhouse-Adrian Bott trained blueblood Format pulled off a decent plunge for supporters when he narrowly defeated John O’Shea -Tom Charlton trained mare Ana Carolina in the opening event at the NJC’s race meeting on the Beaumont track on Monday. When bookmakers framed the…

Blueblood colt Format from the Waterhouse-Bott stable travels to Newcastle for the NJC’s Beaumont track race meeting on Monday with connections hoping for better luck than his last start appearance in the city on January 21. The 3-year-old is a son of champion sire Frankel…

Newcastle trainer Mark Minervini’s short course double at Saturday’s Newcastle Racecourse meeting rounded off a successful week for the popular trainer. The former South Australian who proudly calls Newcastle home these days saddled up Ocean Joy and Shall Be for impressive wins after the pair’s…