Racecourse News

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 28.01.23
    Gary Harley – Preview – 28.01.23

    Race 1 โ€“ Sharp Office Conditional Benchmark 68 Handicap 1600m Piraeus is in great form, and he steps up to the 1600m trip. He landed a plunge to win at Gosford three starts back and then carried 60kgs to win at Muswellbrook. Last start he…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 28.01.23
    Gary Harley – Herald – 28.01.23

    The father and son training partnership of Richard and Will Freedman, enjoying a successful first half of the 2022-23 season with 31.5 winners in two states will send two well fancied gallopers to Saturdays Newcastle race meeting on the Course Proper. The promising Merchant Navy…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 17.01.23
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 17.01.23

    Newcastle Racecourseโ€™s Course Proper received high praise from leading jockeys when it hosted the NJCโ€™s first meeting of 2023 on Tuesday. It was the Course Properโ€™s first meeting for six weeks and it raced magnificently. Gosford trained Border Control which has an interesting history had…

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 17.01.23
    Gary Harley – Preview – 17.01.23

    Race 1 โ€“ Sharp Office Provincial 2&3YO Maiden Plate 900m Soobooco will be a short-priced favourite and looks the winner. He hasnโ€™t raced since August but trialled okay behind a fast horse recently. He has been runner up in two of his three starts in…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 17.01.23
    Gary Harley – Herald – 17.01.23

    The Newcastle Jockey Club will stage its first meeting of the year at the Newcastle Racecourse on Tuesday. The Clubs two meetings in December were held on the Beaumont track however the Course Proper will host Tuesdayโ€™s meeting. Local trainer Mark Minervini is expected to…

  • Media Release- Newcastle Stakes
    Media Release- Newcastle Stakes

    Newcastle Stakes Media Release MEDIA RELEASE – 10 JANUARY 2023 NAME CHANGE FOR NEWCASTLEโ€™S FEATURE AUTUMN RACE Newcastle Jockey Clubโ€™s feature Autumn race, the Group 3 Newcastle Newmarket Handicap has a name change and a prizemoney boost in time for its 3rd March running. In…

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 26.12.22
    Gary Harley – Preview – 26.12.22

    Race 1 – SHARP OFFICE F&M BENCHMARK 64 HANDICAP 1350M Pinky is a lightly raced filly who resumed from a spell with an easy Scone win on December 9. She has a soft draw and will be strong late. Powerful Peg has a tricky draw…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 26.12.22
    Gary Harley – Herald – 26.12.22

    Andrew Gibbons heads to his home track with a solid book of rides at the Newcastle Boxing Day race meeting to be run on the Beaumont track. Gibbons has a full book of rides on the seven-race program, and two of his better rides are…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 17.12.22
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 17.12.22

      Kris Leesโ€™ five-year-old French Marine made a successful return to racing with an effortless three length victory in the Tozer Air & Electrical Benchmark 68 Handicap (1150m) at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Beaumont track race meeting on Saturday. French Marine had not raced since…

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 17.12.22
    Gary Harley – Preview – 17.12.22

    Race 1 โ€“ Tozer Air & Electrical Benchmark 64 Handicap 2100m Onemore Sapphire came from well back when runner up in the Taree Cup two starts back. He has been placed in middle distance events at Randwick and Hawkesbury this preparation. He has 60 ยฝ…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 17.12.22
    Gary Harley – Herald – 17.12.22

    Former Victorian 4-year-old Edge Of Reward, runner up in all four starts for Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle is set to break through in the Tozer Air & Electrical Provincial Maiden Plate (1350m) at the Beaumont (Newcastle) track on Saturday. The lightly raced gelding has been…

  • Newcastle Jockey Club welcome financial boost after difficult year
    Newcastle Jockey Club welcome financial boost after difficult year

    Chief executive Duane Dowell concedes a top-up payment from Racing NSW and a $1 million property evaluation increase helped keep Newcastle Jockey Club’s challenging 2020-21 financial year in the black. But above-budget crowds have the club on course for a healthy return in their own…