Racecourse News

  • Gary Harley – Herald – Boxing Day Races
    Gary Harley – Herald – Boxing Day Races

    The Newcastle Jockey Club is expecting one of their biggest attendances of the year for the iconic Boxing Day race meeting on Friday. The popular Hot Dub Time Machine is locked in to fire up the Hunters biggest Christmas Party well into the night. On…

  • Newcastle Wrap โ€“ 16.12.25
    Newcastle Wrap โ€“ 16.12.25

    The Beaumont track hosted its third race meeting in ten days on Tuesday, and the Newcastle Jockey Club inner track again came through with flying colours. There was dram in the opening event, the 2100 metre Davali Yearlings @ Classic Class 1 and Maiden Plate.…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 16.12.25
    Gary Harley – Herald – 16.12.25

    The Newcastle Jockey Clubs busy period of racing in December continues on Tuesday with the seven race Wine Country race meeting on the Beaumont track. The Tamworth trained Enniroc has been racing in good form and deserves a change of luck when he steps out…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 13.12.25
    Gary Harley – Herald – 13.12.25

    Godolphinโ€™s ultra consistent mare Cinsault resumes from a spell with new trainer Michael Freedman at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on the Beaumont track on Saturday and her trial form indicates she is ready to win. Under James Cummings Cinsault was never out of…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 06.12.25
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 06.12.25

    The annual Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service race meeting was held on the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Beaumont track on Saturday and while leading provincial jockeys Mitchell Bell and Keagan Latham took the ridingย  honours with a treble and double respectively. Newcastle based Shannon Llewellyn rode her…

  • Hot Dub Time Machine to supercharge Boxing Day Races
    Hot Dub Time Machine to supercharge Boxing Day Races

    Newcastle Racecourseย is gearing up for a Boxing Day celebration unlike anything the city has seen, with the iconicย Hot Dub Time Machineย locked in to fire up the Hunterโ€™s biggest post-Christmas party. The long-runningย Boxing Day Racesย return in 2025 with fast horses, festive crowds and a soundtrack that…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 06.12.25
    Gary Harley – Herald – 06.12.25

    The Newcastle-based Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service is celebrating 50 years of service in the region and the annual race day will be held at the Newcastle Racecourse on the Beaumont track on Saturday. Former Godolphin foreman Nacim Dilmi who took over as the Hong King…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 30.11.25
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 30.11.25

    The Newcastle Jockey Club hosted the Tooheys Charity Race Day Supporting Samaritans Christmas Lunch at the Newcastle Racecourse on Sunday. While the healthy crowd enjoyed a day of sunshine it wasnโ€™t a successful day for favourite punters with only one favourite successful on the seven-race…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 30.11.25
    Gary Harley – Herald – 30.11.25

    Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup has trained eight winners this month and he has bright prospects of increasing that number when he sends a float load of gallopers to the Newcastle Jockey Club meeting on Sunday, the last day of November. Good friend Christian Reith rides…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 20.11.25
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 20.11.25

    Gary Harley โ€“ Wrap โ€“ 20.11.25 The stormy weather may not have suited some, however it played into the hands of Canberra trainer Rob Potter and his six-year-old mare Laurel Hill at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Thursday. The seven-race program kicked off…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 20.11.25
    Gary Harley – Herald – 20.11.25

    Gary Harley โ€“ Herald โ€“ 20.11.25 The Newcastle Jockey Club back up from a highly successful The Hunter race day last Saturday with a seven-race program on the course proper on Thursday. Back in the 1980โ€™s, the champion jockey Ron Quinton rode a freakish grey…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 15.11.25
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 15.11.25

    The Newcastle Jockey Club and its magnificent racecourse delivered the most successful The Newcastle Herald Hunter race day on Saturday. It was the seventh edition of the $1 Million Newcastle Herald Hunter and the promotion of the race meeting on Sky Racing, Newcastle Herald and…