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Para surfing champ Sam Bloom captivates at Newcastle International Women’s Day race meeting
Four-time world para surfing champion and best-selling author Sam Bloom would do anything to go back in time. But she’s learnt how to make the best of a challenging situation. “I would give everything back just to be me again, all the books, the movie,…
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“Had to be tough”: Sandpaper holds on for a lead-all-the-way victory in Newcastle Stakes
BJORN Baker’s stable representative Luke Hilton reckons Sandpaper “had to be tough today”. The five-year-old gelding’s jockey Tim Clark admits “he was there to be beaten today, but kept responding and finding that little bit extra”. It was a lead-all-the-way victory in Friday’s group 3…
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Gary Harley – Preview – 07.03.25
Race 1 – Allied The Careful Movers Provincial Maiden Plate 1600 Literature Tycoon is yet to place in four starts but last prep he was a close fourth in two Hawkesbury starts. She was slowly away first up on this track on February 1when she…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 07.03.25
Talented 4-year-old mare Makarena is set to deliver the Hawkes stable with its fifth success in the time-honoured Group 3 Horsepower Newcastle Stakes on Friday. Previously known as the Newcastle Newmarket the race was first run in 1955 and it’s the first Provincial Group race…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 01.03.25
The Newcastle Jockey Club hosted one of its most successful Saturday race meetings at the weekend. It was the Dungog Cup race day which featured a seven-race program highlighted by a cracking line up in the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship Qualifier. The icing…
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Gary Harley – Preview – 01.03.25
RACE 1 – LOVEY’S GROCERS IGA SUPER 2YO MAIDEN PLATE (900 METRES) Mednyi is very quick and shared the lead when beaten less than a length first up on this track on February 15. In his only other start in a Listed race at Caulfield…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 01.03.25
The Newcastle Jockey Club hosts a cracking Qualifier of the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship on Saturday which is also the Settlers Arms Dungog Cup Race Day. 2024 Group 3 Cameron Handicap runner up Matcha Latte resumes from a spell and takes on another…
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Para surfing champion Sam Bloom can’t go back in time, and she’s OK with that
Four-time world para surfing champion and best-selling author Sam Bloom would do anything to go back in time. But she’s learnt how to make the best of a challenging situation. “I would give everything back just to be me again, all the books, the movie,…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 18.02.25
Gary Harley – Wrap – 18.02.25 Former Newcastle Knights first grader Darren Treacy, who trained his first starter at Muswellbrook in November 2023, was on cloud nine after saddling up his first winner at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Treacy’s 3-year-old Dance…
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Gary Harley – Herald – 18.02.25
Rubi’s Serve who is racing well on the Newcastle tracks is well placed in the final event at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Mark Minervini’s mare has drawn perfectly in barrier three in the 1400 metre The Adviser Collective Conditional Benchmark 68…
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“Galentines” racing in Newcastle, promising a bumper autumn season
Herald Article Credit Hunter autumn racing had its soft launch in Newcastle on Saturday as ‘Galentines’ crowds made for the trackside fields at Broadmeadow on a balmy Saturday afternoon for one of the first meetings of the new year and after a bumper spring season.…
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Gary Harley – Wrap – 15.02.25
Hawkesbury based senior jockey Grant Buckley returned to Newcastle for the first time in more than eight months to steer home a treble at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting. Buckley, who has ridden more than 2500 winners, only returned to race riding at Kembla…
