Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Awesome Foursome
FOUR golfers, 72 holes and a 12-hour timeframe. Peter Smith, Marshall Bond, and Luke and Jaimee McLachlan put a whole new meaning into the term “whacking away” when they teed off at Bingara golf course early Saturday morning. The team played golf continuously for 12 hours to raise money for the Cancer Council’s Longest Day [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boars Rugby League Club’s 107-year legacy will be honoured in the new year, with the roll-out of limited edition retro-style jerseys to celebrate the club’s deep history. Club loyalist Jaimie Ryan and Boars first-grade prop, Jack Mitchell, hope to see the jerseys in full production soon. “I had this idea to design an old-school, [...]
On Your Bikes
ROUND four of the Moree Riders’ Club’s 12-week season hit the berms and box-jumps for a few bar-spins and bunny-hops on Thursday, but mostly it was all about having fun and bringing the community together. The 2025-2026 season sprang from the starting gates in October and will run for 12 weeks across two sessions, with [...]
Regional Sport
HE started the season as an underdog after returning from 13 years of self-imposed dirt track exile. But this weekend in Gunnedah, 36-year-old Tom Armstrong is on target to win the premier Pro 450 class in the 2025 Yamaha BLU CRU Aussie Flat Track Nationals. Armstrong, with team Honda, sits 110pts clear of defending champion [...]
Tennis Anyone
WARIALDA Tennis Club’s tired and worn courts will soon be transformed, thanks to a grant secured through the Clubgrants Category 3 Fund. The club netted $100,534 to revamp the synthetic courts which have sat dormant for several years. Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan met with Warialda Tennis Club’s Paul Durkin to announce the successful [...]
Racing
THE horse was well-beaten, but the run at Lismore on Monday was an important milestone for the jockey. Emerging apprentice Charlotte Murrell is now closer to becoming a professional jockey after riding in her first official barrier trial. Her mount, Picador, was well-beaten, but the run was a significant first-step as Charlotte’s dream of taking [...]
Regional Sport
HUNDREDS of people walk through the doors of the Armidale PCYC every week to take part in the many activities on offer. Those activities have received a significant boost with Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan delivering $26,950 through the Community Building Partnership program to re-sand and line-mark the sports floor. Mr Moylan said keeping [...]
Spring Carnival
MOREE Cup winner Tavros, Inverell’s Country Championships runner-up Lisztomania, and last year’s Armidale Cup winner Ring Ahoy will represent the north-west at Randwick today in races worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. As race-goers across Australia cheer for the big names at Flemington, Tamworth trainers Craig Martin and David Hatch chase their biggest paydays when [...]
Spring Carnival
A Lexus Melbourne Cup calcutta will be held at Moree Services Club tonight, with a guaranteed starting pool of at least $1000. The starting pool is expected to be greater as the auction gets closer, with strong ticket sales – at just one-dollar each – already recorded. The huge fundraiser, supported by Regional Australia Bank, [...]
Local Racing
THERE are three certainties in life – death, taxes and Lesgo Don when he races at Moree. Well, maybe not quite, but the popular galloper with a huge following again proved the spacious Moree track is his preferred circuit with a last-stride win in the 1400m Patrons’ BM-58 Handicap on Friday. The win, his third [...]
