Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
G4 Rugby League
IT was a case of same play, different day for Moree Boars second-grade after they overcame a sloppy first half to comfortably beat North Tamworth Bears 34-10 in Group 4 rugby league at Jack Woolaston Oval on Saturday. Like previous matches, the Boars were messy during the first half, but a few stern words from [...]
The Golden Triangle
BEFORE Mallawa came along in 1930 and joined Talmoi and Moree picnic race clubs on bush racing’s Golden Triangle, meetings were held a short distance away at Spring Plain during the very early 1900s. There is also evidence of picnic racing at Bullarah as far back as 1915. But at Spring Plain, about 28 miles [...]
The Golden Triangle
MALLAWA Picnic Race Club stages six races with big prize money when round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle hits the track on Saturday, June 7. The meeting offers a whopping $50,000 prize money as well as cash bonuses for the leading trainer and jockey. In recent weeks, the hardworking committee has been preparing for [...]
Moree Races
MOREE Race Club will stage a seven-race TAB meeting on Tuesday, June 3, with nominations expected to come from across New South Wales and southern Queensland after recent flooding and big rain events have forced owners and trainers inland. The Moree meeting, with $195,000 prize money, features a $30,000 1400m Country Boosted BM-58 Handicap and [...]
G4 Rugby League
A half-time rev-up from coach Alf Newman and team manager Charlie Shearer completely turned the game around when Moree Boars reserves put on a second-half demolition to beat Boggabri Kangaroos 32-14 at Boughton Oval on Sunday. Two quick tries to Boggabri centre Esava Nadalo gave the visitors an 8-nil lead 20 minutes into the game, [...]
G4 Rugby League
MOREE Boars and Boggabri Kangaroos played a rematch of their 2024 Group 4 first-grade grand-final on Sunday at Boughton Oval – and coach Jack Durheim reckons his team played better this time around. Moree pounced on Boggabri 40-18 in last year’s season decider and on Saturday dished out a similar scoreline, winning 46-12. Durheim, currently [...]
Lawn Bowls
BROADBEACH Bulls won the lawn bowls, but Moree won the weekend. Moree Magpies played Broadbeach Bulls at Moree Service Club on Saturday afternoon, and while the Bulls won narrowly, the big winner was Moree. Playing for Broadbeach was Aron Sherriff, currently ranked No.1 in the world and a six-times Australian singles champion. Sherriff and the [...]
The Golden Triangle
PICNIC racing juggernaut Connie Greig came, saw and collected at Moree picnic races on Saturday, when half-sisters I’m Scarlett and Line of Law ran one-two in the 950m RDO Equipment Moree Picnic Bracelet. Greig, who also won the 1600m Kenway and Clark Case IH Class 2 Handicap with Allande, has won 51 races this season. [...]
The Golden Triangle
ARMIDALE trainer Jane Clement and Scone jockey Eloise Drews were at it again at Moree picnic races on Saturday when they teamed up to win the 1400m B&W Rural Boolooroo Cup with tough gelding Awesome Tycoon. Clement and Drews last year won the Talmoi Bracelet and Talmoi Cup with Sparks and Hardyo, and added another [...]
The Golden Triangle
NARROMINE hoop Ricky Blewitt is looking forward to getting back in the Moree winners’ circle today after a busted ankle late last year sidelined him for more than three months. Blewitt, one of the most experienced riders on the Golden Triangle circuit, has been back riding work for six weeks. He returns to Moree picnics [...]
