Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Christmas Races
PROBLEM child Irish Arthur repaid Inverell trainer Brodie Fenton’s hard work and patience with an impressive win in the 950m Elders Insurance and Boland Petroleum Maiden Handicap at Moree on Saturday. Ace hoop Clayton Gallagher settled Irish Arthur ($3.40) in fourth spot behind the leaders before peeling three- and four-wide on the home turn. The [...]
Sport
MOREE golfers Kevin Moore and Gus Baillie last week played their way to a top-five position in the KENO Let’s Play Ambrose State Final at Bonville Golf Resort, Coffs Harbour from an original field numbering more than 6000 pairs. Competitors played in club qualifying rounds and regional finals across New South Wales over several months [...]
Christmas Races
TRACK specialist Lesgo Don relished being “home away from home” on Saturday with an all-the-way win at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel twilight Christmas races. And the Ridge Wilson-trained gelding strengthened part-owner Jack Forman’s reputation as a horse-trader when journeyman jockey Georgina McDonnell led from pillar to post on the four-year-old. Forman, now living [...]
Sport
AFTER five years away from competition, 60-year-old Moree powerlifter Eric Dumas claimed Gold at the 2024 World and Commonwealth Masters Powerlifting Championships in South Africa in October. And, he says, Moree PCYC has a lot to do with his success. Dumas, a Moree dentist, won squat and deadlift events and amassed Masters’ 3 total points [...]
Christmas Races
ARMIDALE trainer Jane Clement’s incredible run of winners is set to continue on Saturday, when she saddles three live chances at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel twilight Christmas races. The six-race meeting, traditionally Moree Race Club’s biggest social event of the year, has drawn strong acceptances. Clement has trained 24 winners since the 2024-2025 [...]
Festive Cheer
AUSSIE country music artist Will Day will entertain Christmas revellers after the last race is decided at the 2024 Moree Ag Supplies and Steel twilight Christmas races on Saturday. Day, who recently released his new single, My Kinda Crowd, will find his kind of crowd at the night function. Day is a regular at some [...]
Athletics
THE Moree Midget, 12-year-old Kate McDonald, on Saturday broke a five-year park run record when clocking 18 minutes and 53 seconds for the five-kilometre circuit. “That was good. Tiring, but fun,” Kate gasped soon after creating new figures. The record was previously held by accomplished long-distance runner, Nikko Siddons, from North Star, who stopped the [...]
Christmas Races
MOREE Race Club was dealt a hefty blow overnight Thursday when thieves broke into a storeroom at Moree racecourse and stole valuable equipment needed at the club’s huge Christmas meeting next week. Moree Race Club president, Rob Mather, has appealed for public help. “There was a lot of gardening equipment stolen as well as a [...]
Tamworth Races
ALL Too Wild broke through for trainer Tracey Bartley and Tornado Express might head to a Highway Handicap or Country Championship heat after the four-year-old mare’s impressive win at Tamworth on Monday for Cody Morgan. Tornado Express ran down breakaway leader Harbour Gold before claiming to win by nearly four lengths from Noel Hodgson’s Island [...]
All Schools Championships
MOREE 12-year-old running sensation Kate McDonald is ranked 10th in Australia for 1500 metres and ninth for 800 metres after competing at the Australian All Schools Championships at Sydney’s Olympic Park last week – all while overcoming a head cold. Kate created a new personal best for 800m when clocking 2min 18.11 seconds against the [...]
