Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
2026 Golden Triangle
A late pick-up ride gave Scone jockey Eloise Drews back-to-back 1400m B&W Rural Boolooroo Cups at Moree picnic races on Saturday when locally-owned gelding Thiem raced clear for a popular win in the time-honoured bush feature. Drews won last year’s cup with Awesome Tycoon for Jane Clement, and was a late booking for Thiem after [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
MOREE picnic races – round one of bush racing’s Golden Triangle – was held on Saturday under perfect autumn weather before a big crowd. Despite the dry conditions and fuel price hikes, about 700 patrons went through the turnstiles. More than 500 staying for the night function, with entertainment by father-and-son duo, Split Image, [...]
Sport
MOREE’S Sheldyn Briggs has been selected for the 2026 Indigenous Marathon Project squad to compete in the TCS New York City Marathon in November. Briggs, a proud Gamilaroi woman, was selected following a nationwide search that drew more than 230 applicants from First Nations men and women aged 18 to 30. “Competing in the New [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
INVERELL and Moree versus Moree and Inverell – if that makes sense – will head markets at Moree picnic races tomorrow when Shut Eye and Lesgo Don clash in the 1400m B&W Rural Boolooroo Cup. Both gallopers are trained at Inverell, but owned in Moree, and both sets of owners want to add the time-honoured [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
FATHER and son singing duo Pieter and Nicky Kruger – Split Image – will wow the crowds at the Moree picnic races after-party on Saturday at Moree racecourse. Split Image is backed by a full live band, bringing decades of musical experience and energy to every performance. Dad Pieter, 60, and 35-year-old Nicky and their [...]
2026 Golden Triangle
MOREE Picnic Race Club yesterday received 64 nominations for round one of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday. The time-honoured 1400m Boolooroo Cup, first run in 1924, has drawn 17 nominations, including 2022 Picnic Championships Final winner Hemsted and last-start Quambone Cup winner I’m Scarlett, both from the powerful Connie Greig stable. Versatile mare I’m [...]
Group 4 Rugby League
ON Sunday, Moree Boars second-grade coaches Alf Newman and Charlie Shearer warned their team they didn’t want a repeat of the previous week when the full-time score was locked at 30-all against North Tamworth Bears at Jack Woolaston Oval. And the boys heeded the warning when beating Kootingal Moonbi Roosters 46-24 in round four of [...]
Group 4 Rugby League
LORILIE Haines said some changes at training made the difference – and the Moree Boars ladies heeded their coach’s advice with an 18-4 win against Kootingal Moonbi Roosters in the Group 4 ladies tackle competition at Boughton Oval on Sunday. Despite the team being unbeaten this season, Haines said changes were crucial – and those [...]
Group 4 Rugby League
THERE are three certainties in life – death, taxes and Moree Boars first-grade on home turf. Group 4 referee Tom Aylett applied the mercy rule about 10 minutes from full-time when Joe Wade planted the Boars’ 12th try against a scoreless Kootingal Moonbi Roosters at Boughton Oval on Sunday, winning 60-nil. Moree captain-coach Jack Durheim [...]
Bookmaking Dynasty
IN August, 1981, the great horse Kingston Town was at unbackable odds to win the 1200m Premiere Stakes at Rosehill. The King, first-up since winning the Cox Plate the previous year, was expected to make a romp of it for legendary trainer Tommy Smith. Big-betting bookie Bruce Picone was fielding ‘the board’ at Moree, and [...]
