Racecourse News

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 26.09.2023
    Gary Harley – Herald – 26.09.2023

    Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott who are enjoying a great start to the current season with 35 winners Australia wide in less than two months, will send a pair of promising three-year-olds to Newcastle on Tuesday. ย The two bluebloods will contest Maiden events at the…

  • NEWCASTLE RACECOURSE SUPPORTS FOUR RIDERS FOR THE INAUGURAL EQUIMILLION EQUESTRIAN COMPETITION
    NEWCASTLE RACECOURSE SUPPORTS FOUR RIDERS FOR THE INAUGURAL EQUIMILLION EQUESTRIAN COMPETITION

    Newcastle Racecourse is excited to announce the sponsorship of four riders in the upcoming Equimillion event to be held on the October long weekend at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre. Hannah Hopkins and Makaylah Fenwick have been successful in receiving NJC sponsorships to compete in…

  • Gary Harley- Wrap – 16.09.23
    Gary Harley- Wrap – 16.09.23

    Veteran Newcastle trainer Paul Perry took the training honours on the second day of the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Spring Carnival on Saturday. Perry trained gallopers Florida Sky and Mr Trackside landed hefty plunges in successive races. Newcastleโ€™s premier jockey Aaron Bullock was aboard four-year-old mare…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – Newcastle Gold Cup 2023
    Gary Harley – Wrap – Newcastle Gold Cup 2023

    Newcastle Cup Day Gary Harley โ€“ Wrap โ€“ 15.09.23 The Newcastle Jockey Club was blessed with 30-degree weather, a perfectly prepared track, big fields in the three Group events and a healthy crowd for Sharp Office Newcastle Cup Day on Friday 15 September.ย  To put…

  • Gary Harley – Preview- Saturday 16.09.23
    Gary Harley – Preview- Saturday 16.09.23

    Three-year-old filly Left Field will appreciate a massive drop-in class when she resumes from a spell in the Tassel Financial Planning F&M Maiden Plate (1250m) on the second day of the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Spring Racing Carnival on Saturday. The daughter of Deep Field had…

  • Media Release SEPTEMBER 2023 SPRING RACING CARNIVAL
    Media Release SEPTEMBER 2023 SPRING RACING CARNIVAL

    MEDIA RELEASE โ€“ 14 SEPTEMBER 2023 NEWCASTLE RACECOURSE 2023 SPRING RACING CARNIVAL   Newcastle Racecourse is gearing up for an exciting two days of racing with its Spring Racing Carnival including Sharp Office Newcastle Gold Cup Day tomorrow (Friday 15th September) and Charlestown Square Ladies…

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 15.09.23
    Gary Harley – Preview – 15.09.23

    Race 1- GTS Lawn Pride Australia 3&4yo Benchmark 68 Handicap 1600m Last Straw disappointed first up so the blinkers go on this time. She was an easy Warwick Farm winner in her only other start in March. Stablemate The Seven Seasโ€™ all three wins were…

  • Gary Harley – The Herald & RNSW 15.09.23
    Gary Harley – The Herald & RNSW 15.09.23

    Newcastle trained horses dominate early betting markets for Fridayโ€™s $300,000 Group 3 Sharp Office Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m). The Kris Lees pair Cleveland (TAB $4) and Kalapour (TAB $4.80) head the markets with Mark Minerviniโ€™s Hosier (TAB $5) third favourite. The trio have all drawn…

  • Newcastle Spring Racing Carnival 2023
    Newcastle Spring Racing Carnival 2023

    In a coup for the Newcastle Jockey Club and Newcastleโ€™s premier trainer Kris Lees, Australiaโ€™s most successful jockey Damian Oliver, and another of racings best Ben Melham will ride at Fridays Sharp Office Newcastle Gold Cup meeting. Both jockeys will ride Lees trained stayers in…

  • Vale Normie Rose
    Vale Normie Rose

    Sad news yesterday with the passing of former Newcastle Racecourse based jockey Normie Rose. Normie was a young Aboriginal jockey who moved to Newcastle from Dirrabandi in Queensland to forge a career in racing and support his mother and siblings back home. He became a…

  • NJC Equimillions Sponsorship Announced
    NJC Equimillions Sponsorship Announced

    Newcastle Racecourse is excited to announce that Hannah Hopkins and Makaylah Fenwick have been successful in receiving a sponsorship to compete in the upcoming Equimillion event to be held on the October long weekend at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre. Equimillion is an equestrian event…

  • Name the Marquee Competition
    Name the Marquee Competition

    Our Stables Marquee has been relocated to an exciting new area closer to the track and from November we will be providing a different and unique race day experience featuring a fresh new style. ย  In celebration of this revamp, we are asking you โ€œWhat…