Racecourse News

Rejuvenated grey mare Pearl Roan is set to give lie to her poor Newcastle record when she steps out in the 900 metre benchmark 64 Handicap on the second day of the Newcastle Jockey Clubs Spring Racing Carnival at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. Trained on…

Race 1 – Macka’s Sand & Soil Class 1 & Maiden Plate 1850m Reaching broke through for her first win on this track on September 1. The mare had been placed in much better races than this in previous starts. She goes from 1500m to…

Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse has bright prospects of saddling up her seventh Newcastle Cup winner when Hush Writer attempts to win back to back Group 3 Sharp Electronics Group Newcastle Gold Cups on Friday. The Newcastle Gold Cup highlights a cracking seven race program which…

Gary Harley Wrap – 01.09.20 Bluebloods Reaching and Bucharest were two of six favourites successful at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs seven race program at Newcastle Racecourse on September 1. Reaching, a daughter of multiple Group 1 winner Alinghi, broke through for her initial win in…

2000 Winners And A Second Double Century Newcastle’s gun trainer Kris Lees reached yet another milestone in his seventeen-year career when he trained his 2000th winner on the Kensington track at Randwick on July 18. Kiwi owned three-year-old Killin, carrying the colours of one of…

Race 1 – Minder Cloud Services 3YO Maiden Plate 900m Rocketing By was beaten two lengths by the smart Britain on debut at this track in May. In his only other start on June 10, the colt was placed at Canterbury. He was impressive in…

Vale Bill Wade Legendary Newcastle jockey Bill Wade passed away aged 91 at the Amaroo Aged Care facility at Charlestown on Thursday morning. Wade had been at Amaroo for eight years and entered the facility following the death of his wife Olga. The former champion…

Corporate bookmakers operating on Saturday’s Newcastle race meeting took a hammering when plunge after plunge was successful during the hotly contested nine-race program. In race order, the following gallopers assisted in making it a black day for the bookies. Lord Olympus ($2.60 to $1.90), La…

Race 1 – New Zealand Bloodstock Maiden Plate 900m Lord Olympus is a speedy three-year-old colt with very good barrier trial form. This is the first start on the back of an easy trial win at Warwick Farm on August 7. He has a nice…

The Freedman brothers, Richard and Michael, have accepted with eight of their team for Saturday’s extended nine-race program at Newcastle and when contacted on Thursday Richard left no doubt as to their best chance. “La Tigresa will run in the 1400 metre Maiden Handicap and…