Moree: NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament continues Australia Day

MORE than 60 lawn bowlers are midway through the chase for $20,000 prize money as the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament continues today at Moree Services Club’s state-of-the-art undercover bowls complex. The Australia Day showdown has drawn bowlers from across New South Wales to play in the men’s fours club tournament – only the second [...]

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Moree Race Club says thank-you to local volunteer groups

ORGANISING a race meeting and knowing more than 5000 people will turn up is not an exercise for the faint-hearted. Each year at Christmas time, Moree Race Club holds the biggest race meeting of the year. Locals, visitors and tourists flock to the Moree track for a huge day of racing, rejoicing and catching up [...]

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The 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament in Moree this long weekend

THERE will be $20,000 prize money offered when Moree Services Club hosts the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament on Saturday-Sunday, January 25-26 – a relatively new concept focused on men’s health as well as generating interest in the sport among the youth of Moree. The men’s fours club tournament will bring bowlers from across New [...]

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Junior cricketer Riley Slack-Smith represents Queensland at national level

FORMER Moree junior cricketer Riley Slack-Smith in December represented Queensland at the national 12-years-and-under Schoolboy Championships in Adelaide – and the Queenslanders finished in equal top spot with Victoria and South Australia after topping the stats ladder for the series. Riley’s outstanding bowling placed him second-highest wicket-taker for the championship, and further strengthened a budding [...]

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Moree senior cricket pads up for 2025

THE Moree District Cricket Association will hold its 30-over grand-final under lights at Ron Harborne Oval tomorrow night, Friday, January 10. Moree Thunder and Moree Golf Club will battle out the decider, scheduled to start at 5.15pm. Club president Grady Sinclair expects the grand-final to be “a little bit fiery” ahead of a return match [...]

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Kropp collars second Inverell Cup in five years

IT’S good when a plan comes together. Toowoomba apprentice Kelsey Lenton’s plan to win the 1400m Tatts Hotel Great Northern Inverell Cup on New Year’s Day paid blue-chip dividends when under-rated mare Ella Te Ama swept down the middle of the track to win the $45,000 feature with something in hand. Ella Te Ama was [...]

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Weir ready to start New Year with a winner or two at Inverell

WELL-travelled jockey Mikayla Weir, fresh from winning on Callie Cool at Quirindi on Boxing Day and riding engagements at Orange on Monday, heads to Inverell Jockey Club’s big cup meeting today with five strong rides. Weir rides Rapid Outlaw in the 1600m Stewarts Grain BM-66 Handicap for Armidale trainer Stirling Osland, as well as Rethink [...]

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Moree Bulls ready for 2025

AFTER another successful season on and off the paddock, Moree Rugby Union Club recently held its annual general meeting, with David Watts retaining the club president’s chair for 2025. Ian Ranger was elected vice-president; Alex Roseby, secretary; Ben Cheetham, treasurer; Madeline Watts, registrar; and Tony Lockery, club chaplain. “We had a good roll-up of members [...]

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Sporting champions rewarded

FEDERAL Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has congratulated 19 young athletes from the electorate – including Moree, Narrabri and Warialda – who have received financial assistance to fulfil their sporting dreams. The young sportspeople from Breelong, Coolah, Coonamble, Condobolin, Dubbo, Gunnedah, Moree, Narrabri and Warialda have received grants of up to $750 to assist with [...]

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My Name Is Chloe Lowe

TOOWOOMBA apprentice Chloe Lowe brought her incredible strike-rate over the border on Saturday with a winning double at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Christmas twilight races. Lowe, 22, has ridden 48 winners despite only hitting the racetrack in March this year, and currently leads the Queensland country jockeys’ premiership with 28 wins. Her Moree [...]

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