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  • NJC adjust stable plan after feedback from trainers
    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. Theย Newcastle Heraldย revealed the NJC’s plans in 2017 for an ambitious two-storey…

  • NJC racing in to celebrate International Womenโ€™s Day
    NJC racing in to celebrate International Womenโ€™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 โ€œGirl powerโ€ has had such an impact on the Newcastle Jockey Club (NJC) in recent times, it will soon overhaul its…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 12.02.22
    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…

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 12.02.22
    Gary Harley – Preview – 12.02.22

    Race 1 โ€“ 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…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 12.02.22
    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…

  • Gary Harley – RNSW- February Issue
    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…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 05.02.22
    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. Leesโ€™ unbeaten 4yo Fleet Air Arm resumed from an eleven month spell with a brilliant win in the 900m Benchmark 64 Handicap. The gelding put…

  • Gary Harley – Preview – 05.02.22
    Gary Harley – Preview – 05.02.22

    Race 1- Tozer Air & Electrical Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2350m Promising stayer Forever You steps up to the longer trip after an easy Maiden win at Kembla over 2000m on a heavy track last start. The European bred mare has had three starts…

  • Gary Harley – Herald – 05.02.22
    Gary Harley – Herald – 05.02.22

    Promising European stayer Forever You, these days in the Warwick Farm stable of Annabel Neasham has bright prospects in the Tozer Air & Electrical Class 1 and Maiden Plate (2350m) at the Newcastle race meeting on Saturday. The 4yo mare, a daughter of champion sire…

  • Media Release 4 February 2022 TOZER Air Race Day
    Media Release 4 February 2022 TOZER Air Race Day

    Media Release Newcastle Jockey Club 4 February 2022 TOZER Air Race Day Post-Christmas Party Race Day with Tozer Air February 5th 2022 Newcastle Racecourse is pleased to hold their second Saturday Race Day of 2022, The Post-Christmas Party Race Day with TOZER Air this weekend.…

  • Media Release Newcastle Jockey Club 3 February 2022
    Media Release Newcastle Jockey Club 3 February 2022

    Media Release Newcastle Jockey Club 3 February 2022 NJC and Horsepower Feeds and Supplements announce new partnership and naming rights to the G3 Newcastle Newmarket Handicap on Fridays, 4 March 2022. The Newcastle Jockey Club is pleased to announce a new partnership with Horsepower Feeds…

  • Gary Harley – Wrap – 29.01.22
    Gary Harley – Wrap – 29.01.22

    Photo Credit: Bradley Photography Newcastleโ€™s gun apprentice Dylan Gibbons has followed up a great first season in which he rode 86 winners with an even more impressive first up half of the current season. The Chisholm 20 year old steered home a winning double at…

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