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Gary Harley – Herald – 26.02.22
The Freedman brothers training partnership will send a team of five to the Newcastle Jockey Club’s Saturday race meeting. The 4yo mare Head On Up appears the stables best chance when she resumes from a spell in the MyBig Benchmark 68 Handicap (900m). Head On…
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NJC geared up for Provincial-Midway Championships
Story: Newcastle Weekly Photo: Peter Stoop The Newcastle Jockey Club (NJC) is gearing up for a big day of action when it kicks off the Provincial-Midway Championships this week. The organisation will host the opening qualifier, over 1400m, at the Newcastle Racecourse on Thursday 24 February at…
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Gary Harley – Preview – 24.02.22
Race 1: Horsepower Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2300m Import Aquileon has his chance to win his first race for the Lees stable. Since arriving from Victoria he was narrowly beaten first up at Armidale and last start he was placed over 1890m on this…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 24.02.22
The 2022 Polytrack Provincial – Midway Championships series kicks off at Newcastle on Thursday when a capacity field of sixteen will face the starter in the first qualifier. The winner and runner up will progress to the $500,000 Final to be run at Randwick on…
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Vale Mr Jack Ashman (Funeral Details)
Vale Mr Jack Ashman (Funeral Details) – Racing New South Wales (racingnsw.com.au) Racing NSW has been advised of the passing of Mr Jack Ashman. Jack spent his early married life in Broken Hill where he and his wife were local school teachers. They moved to…
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NJC adjust stable plan after feedback from trainers
Story – Craig Kerry Sports reporter, Newcastle Herald Newcastle Jockey Club plan to decrease the number of boxes in their proposed multimillion dollar stable development to make the facility more user friendly for trackwork. The Newcastle Herald revealed the NJC’s plans in 2017 for an ambitious two-storey…
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NJC racing in to celebrate International Women’s Day
Jockeys Amelia Denby and Grace Willoughby, with the Kris Lees galloper False Step, ahead of the upcoming International Women’s Day luncheon. Photo: Peter Stoop “Girl power” has had such an impact on the Newcastle Jockey Club (NJC) in recent times, it will soon overhaul its…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 12.02.22
Leading provincial jockey Grant Buckley has predicted a bright future for the unbeaten Godolphin 3yo Tipitina after he piloted the gelding to an outstanding win in the Prosperity Advisers Group Benchmark 64 Handicap (1600m) at the Newcastle race meeting on Saturday. The New Zealand bred…
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Gary Harley – Preview – 12.02.22
Race 1 – EngageVR Maiden Handicap 1200m Amathuba deserves to break through after being placed in all four starts. She has been placed three times on the Newcastle track. First up over the unsuitable 900m trip on this track on January 29 she was runner…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 12.02.22
Leading trainer Gerald Ryan is hoping for a Good 4 rated track at Newcastle on Saturday when his lightly raced 4yo Adulting has her third race start in the Prosperity Advisers Group Benchmark 64 Handicap (1600m). Ryan and Sterling Alexiou prepare the mare who races…
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Gary Harley – RNSW- February Issue
Annual General Meeting The Newcastle Jockey Clubs Annual General Meeting was held at the Newcastle Racecourse on December 4. The NJC returned a profit of $3,292,427 for the year ending June 30, 2021, It must be pointed out that the club sold Cessnock Racecourse to…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 05.02.22
Novocastrians Kris Lees, Nathan Doyle and Dylan Gibbons all enjoyed success at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Saturday. Lees’ unbeaten 4yo Fleet Air Arm resumed from an eleven month spell with a brilliant win in the 900m Benchmark 64 Handicap. The gelding put…
