Racecourse News

  • Gary Harley – Preview 20.06.20
    Gary Harley – Preview 20.06.20

    Race 1 – TLE Electrical Newcastle Maiden Handicap 900m Light and Dark was never on the track first up at Hawkesbury and he was only beaten three quarters of a length. He had very good trial form prior to his debut run and has speed…

  • Gary Harley RNSW
    Gary Harley RNSW

    FAREWELL IN HER TIME The wonderful racing career of Newcastleโ€™s best sprinter of late, In Her Time, came to an end on Anzac Day when she was narrowly beaten in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Crown at Rosehill. Typifying the renowned will to win that…

  • Gary Harley Wrap 06.06.20
    Gary Harley Wrap 06.06.20

    Newcastleโ€™s three-year-old filly Cafรฉ Royal is likely to head to Brisbane to contest the Group 3 Winx Guineas next month after she got off the canvas to win the 1300 metre Benchmark 70 Handicap at Saturdays Newcastle race meeting. Backed off the map from $2.05…

  • Gary Harley – Members Preview 06.06.2020
    Gary Harley – Members Preview 06.06.2020

    Members Preview โ€“ 06.06.2020   Race 1 ย New Zealand Bloodstock Maiden Handicap 1850m Send Me Wild was narrowly beaten over a similar trip at Hawkesbury last start. Her all three career runs have been sound and she is ready to win. The filly was beaten…

  • Gary Harley – Preview 06.06.20
    Gary Harley – Preview 06.06.20

    Highly promising Newcastle filly Cafรฉ Royal will be on trial for a trip to Brisbane when she contests the 1300 metre Benchmark Handicap at Newcastle on Saturday. The three-year-old was hailed as a future Group filly when she won three of four starts in her…

  • Gary Harley – Cessnock Wrap
    Gary Harley – Cessnock Wrap

    Trainers Jason Deamer and John Sargent along with jockeys Christian Reith and Tom Sherry all bagged doubles at the Cessnock race meeting on Tuesday. It was the first meeting at Cessnock since the Jungle Juice Cup Day in October. Deamerโ€™s two winners Constanzia and The…

  • Gary Harley – Preview Cessnock 02.06.20
    Gary Harley – Preview Cessnock 02.06.20

    Race 1 – Iron Jack Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2125m Prince Camelot strikes a suitable trip for the first time this preparation and he should be too classy for this field. He has a good record over this trip with a win and two…

  • Gary Harley – Cessnock- 02.06.20
    Gary Harley – Cessnock- 02.06.20

    Former New Zealand trainer John Sargent based at Randwick these days, can do punters a favour when Cessnock Racecourse hosts its first meeting since October on Tuesday. The popular โ€˜Sargeโ€™ told yours truly on Sunday night that he is confident that two of his three…

  • Jim O’Neill Obituary
    Jim O’Neill Obituary

    Jim Oโ€™Neill breeder of champion 2-year-old Luskin Star passed away on Tuesday night aged 88. Oโ€™Neill lived at Cessnock with his wife Marea at the time of his death. He founded the successful family business Oโ€™Neillโ€™s Tyres, which has many outlets in the Lower Hunter…

  • Gary Harley Wrap- 26.05.20
    Gary Harley Wrap- 26.05.20

    Newcastle jockey Andrew Gibbonsโ€™ win on 2-year-old Meadow Land at Tuesday Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting was his one-hundredth win for the season. Gibbons had a career-best season of 137 winners in 2018-2019 but he wasnโ€™t that confident of reaching the century this season after…

  • Gary Harley – Preview 26.05.20
    Gary Harley – Preview 26.05.20

    Race 1 โ€“ NBN News Class 1 Handicap 1985m Small field but five real chances. Soul Purpose is well weighted with only 54 kilograms on her back after Tom Sherryโ€™s claim. The filly broke through for her first win at Hawkesbury over 1800 metres last…

  • Gary Harley – Herald- 26.05.20
    Gary Harley – Herald- 26.05.20

    Kris Lees has produced three outstanding two-year oldโ€™s in recent months and he saddles up another at Newcastle on Tuesday. On March 22 Lees filly Zeftabrook in the Australian Bloodstock colours, won the Muswellbrook Starmaker and two weeks later she won the $200,000 Wellington Boot.…