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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 Nathan Doyle her third trainer…

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 in the 2019/20 season –…

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 debut run and has speed…

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 renowned will to win that…

Highly promising Newcastle filly Café Royal will be on trial for a trip to Brisbane when she contests the 1300 metre Benchmark Handicap at Newcastle on Saturday. The three-year-old was hailed as a future Group filly when she won three of four starts in her…

Trainers Jason Deamer and John Sargent along with jockeys Christian Reith and Tom Sherry all bagged doubles at the Cessnock race meeting on Tuesday. It was the first meeting at Cessnock since the Jungle Juice Cup Day in October. Deamer’s two winners Constanzia and The…

Race 1 – Iron Jack Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2125m Prince Camelot strikes a suitable trip for the first time this preparation and he should be too classy for this field. He has a good record over this trip with a win and two…

Former New Zealand trainer John Sargent based at Randwick these days, can do punters a favour when Cessnock Racecourse hosts its first meeting since October on Tuesday. The popular ‘Sarge’ told yours truly on Sunday night that he is confident that two of his three…

Jim O’Neill breeder of champion 2-year-old Luskin Star passed away on Tuesday night aged 88. O’Neill lived at Cessnock with his wife Marea at the time of his death. He founded the successful family business O’Neill’s Tyres, which has many outlets in the Lower Hunter…

Kris Lees has produced three outstanding two-year old’s in recent months and he saddles up another at Newcastle on Tuesday. On March 22 Lees filly Zeftabrook in the Australian Bloodstock colours, won the Muswellbrook Starmaker and two weeks later she won the $200,000 Wellington Boot.…

Maitland breeder and owner Edwina Throsby who bred and shared in the ownership of the former world’s best sprinter Chautauqua, could have another future star bred on the family’s magnificent property. At Newcastle on Saturday a two-year-old half-brother to Chautauqua called Britain, created a huge…