Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
2026 Golden Triangle
QUIRINDI trainer Geoff O’Brien has confirmed tough mare Akauwheo will start in the 1400m Mallawa Cup at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday. The mare, a winner at Talmoi last year, has been in work for more than 12 months, and will carry 69kg in the $12,000 bush feature. “She’s big enough [...]
Local Racing
MID north coast jockey Luke Rolls made the trip inland well and truly worth it on Tuesday, with a winning double at Moree Race Club’s big seven-race TAB meeting. Rolls partnered impressive three-year-old gelding Devilish Sun to a soft win in the 1200m Big Sky Country Maiden Handicap and 40 minutes later booted home four-year-old [...]
Local Racing
ARMIDALE trainer Lea Selby ended a long run of outs when tough old gelding Set to Prophet – affectionately known as Moses – won the September 6 Moree Cup BM-58 Handicap at Moree on Tuesday. Selby, whose last winner was the aptly-named Invincible Faith at Deepwater back in January, went within a long-head of landing [...]
Local Racing
TWO years ago this month, Izzy Neale was riding at Mallawa and Talmoi picnic races as an amateur jockey. Today at Moree, as a claiming apprentice in the professional ranks, Neale has three rides for her boss, Dubbo trainer Brett Robb. Neale rode her first winner at her first ride in a race at Condobolin [...]
Central North Rugby
MOREE Rugby Union Club celebrated Old Bulls’ day at the weekend, nearly 40 years to the day the Bulls played Inverell Highlanders at Weebolla Oval. On June 14, 1986, Moree Weebolla Bulls created local rugby history when they beat the Highlanders in the club’s first home game. Bulls club president, David Watts, said more than [...]
Local Racing
MOREE Race Club tomorrow stages a seven-race TAB card, and after nearly 100mm of rain fell on the Moree course proper last week, course curator, John Brown, is confident he’ll post the track a Soft 7, pending a stewards’ inspection today. “We had 98mm, and the track really needed it because it’s been so dry [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
TICKETS for Mallawa and Talmoi picnic races are now available online, with much-needed rain this week signalling larger than usual crowds are likely at bush racing’s Golden Triangle. With round one at Moree done and dusted for another year, the carnival continues west and north of Moree over the next four weeks. Mallawa Picnic Race [...]
Group 4 Rugby League
MOREE Boars first-grade came from behind at Boughton Oval on Sunday to beat Dungowan Cowboys 42-24 in a game marred by a second-half send-off and two sin bins. Boars captain-coach Jack Durheim was given 10 minutes early in the second half and five minutes from full-time, referee James Brown sent Dungowan lock Trent Taylor from [...]
News
INVERELL Basketball Association has a proud history in the local community in facilitating the sport for all ages and competitive desires. The association and its participants have now received a major assist with Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan announcing funding through the Local Sport Grant Program to purchase new equipment. “Inverell Basketball Association provides [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
CLASS prevailed at round one of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday when former Queenslander Connewarre bloused a strong field of sprinters in the 950m RDO Equipment Moree Picnic Bracelet. Connewarre, trained at Inverell by Wayne Oakenfull, parked off the speed under Scone jockey Ashley Boyd before charging clear in the straight to win comfortably. [...]
