Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
2025 Moree Cup
MENTION the name Brandenburg anywhere around North Queensland – especially on the rodeo circuit– and stories of admiration and praise will flow. Mention the name at the races, and the conversation ramps up a notch. Former gun jockey Troy Brandenburg was back at one of his old stomping grounds on Sunday, this time as an [...]
Central North Rugby
TEN years since a home-ground grand-final is a long time between drinks for any rugby club – but even longer for the Moree Bulls. Much longer. The club, rich in history and at-times unstoppable, hasn’t hosted a Central North grand-final at the famous Weebolla rugby grounds since 2015. They were beaten by Narrabri Blue Boars, [...]
Moree Cup meeting
MARK Mason is daring to dream, and has tentatively pencilled in the $2 million Kosciuszko at Randwick next month after emerging sprinter Who Goes There put them away in the 950m Boland Petroleum Moree Town Plate on Sunday. The Tamworth trainer has saddled his share of quality horses over the years, including Moree Cup winner [...]
2025 Moree Cup
JENNY Steepe doesn’t get home to Moree very often, and the trip from Tamworth at the weekend with husband Kel Penfold was bittersweet for two reasons. Tavros, a horse they part-own with a syndicate that includes trainer Craig Martin, chased hard in the straight to decisively win the 1400m Agri Storage and Logistics Moree Cup [...]
Group 4 League
MOREE ladies tackle team will play a home grand-final next Sunday at Boughton Oval after scraping to a 12-8 win against Dungowan at Gunnedah’s Kitchener Park on Saturday. The Moree squad, beaten only once this year, will play their nemesis, Gunnedah, in the Group 4 decider. The ladies join Moree Boars first-grade and second-grade, who [...]
Group 19 League
FROM an early-season slump to five wins in a row – Moree Boomerangs reserve-grade team has booked its spot in the Group 19 grand-final at Inverell today. The squad, captained by Jay Puru-Walzak and coached by Anthony Robinson, chase grand-final glory against Warialda Wombats, with the Rangs’ women’s team also after the grand-final trophy in [...]
Central North Rugby
MOREE Bulls first-grade captain Duncan Woods has a big month ahead. Next Saturday, the back-row forward will lead Moree Bulls onto Weebolla Oval in the 2025 Central North grand-final – the club’s first home grand-final in 10 years. The Bulls will play either Gunnedah Red Devils or Quirindi Lions, with those teams playing at Gunnedah [...]
2025 Moree Cup
SYDNEY one day, Moree the next – Tamworth apprentice jockey Siena Grima will clock the miles over the next couple of days, with six rides at Rosehill Gardens today and another seven at tomorrow’s Agri Storage and Logistics Moree Cup meeting. Grima, fresh from winning on Yanabah for boss Mel O’Gorman at Tamworth yesterday, rode [...]
2025 Moree Cup
MORE than 150 people braved crisp, cool weather at Moree racecourse on Friday night to support a vital service that has touched and saved the lives of thousands of people over the past 50 years – the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. More than $80,000 was raised from two auctions – live and online – as [...]
2025 Moree Cup
AFTER 40-odd years, prolific bush artist Ian Reardon has finally got himself a studio. Mr Rearson, 78, was encouraged to paint as a child by his grandfather, Jack Isbister. But life on the farm at Terry Hie Hie, and raising a family, meant he didn’t pick up a brush and palette again until the 1990s. [...]
