Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
THEY came. They saw. They conquered. A group of Moree martial arts students competed at the Brazilian jiu-jitsu NSW championships at Inverell recently and all returned home with medals. Moree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club members Austin Madden, Logan Cubis and Kenzie and Caden Cook competed against students from across New South Wales. The 2024 NSW Country [...]
Moree Riders Club
THE Moree Riders Club will hold its inaugural come-and-try day at its new venue on Thursday, November 7. Club president Steele Sutton invites cyclists of all ages and abilities to call down to the old velodrome site – rebranded Moree Riders’ Track – from 5pm. Come-and-try days will be held every Thursday this month – [...]
Regional Sport
FOLLOWING the success of recent workshops in the central west of New South Wales, an interactive child safety workshop will be held in Tamworth next week to help local sporting organisations keep children safe from harm and abuse in sport. The NSW Office of Sport has partnered with the Office of the Children’s Guardian to [...]
Annual General Meeting
MOREE Race Club is seeking new committee members, and with the club’s biggest meeting of the year only a couple of months away, the call-out is on for more hands on deck. The club hosts an eight-race TAB meeting on Friday, November 1 to herald the start of Melbourne Cup week, with the all-important annual [...]
Moree Gallops
Dubbo jockey and Moree old-boy Clayton Gallager landed a winning double at Moree on Friday when guiding Wandering Jack and Da Noive to popular wins. Kieren Hazleton’s Da Noive ($4.20fav) stuck to the fence, just off the speed before racing clear to win the 1400m Heffernan Electrical BM-58 Handicap by three-parts of a length from [...]
Moree Gallops
A HORSE thought to be better-suited over 10 furlongs and further, showed a good turn of foot to win the 950m Campbell’s Fuel Service Maiden Plate at Moree on Friday. Lord Protector, now trained at Tamworth by Craig Martin after transferring from Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young’s Cranbourne stables, was first-up since finishing second over [...]
Moree Gallops
IT’S been a long time between wins for Lesgo Don – and his group of popular owners – but the four-year-old repaid connections in spades at Moree on Friday with a strong win in the 1300m Gwydir Gallop Class 1 Handicap. Apprentice Ella Drew logged the miles from Scone for only one ride, and left [...]
Moree Gallops
MOREE part-owned and Collarenebri-trained Volcanic Gold survived a protest to narrowly win the 1400m Members’ Maiden Plate at Moree on Friday. Trainer Kelly Smith sat out a few anxious minutes as stewards deliberated an objection lodged by Shannen Llewellyn, rider of runner-up Harsh Mistress, trained at Gunnedah by Sally Torrens. Llewellyn alleged Volcanic Gold shifted [...]
Moree Gallops
TAMWORTH trainer Mark Mason will make a rare trip to Sydney next Tuesday – but first, he’s got runners at Moree today and Muswellbrook Sunday to saddle up. Mason has nominated emerging sprinter Who Goes There for the 1000m Highway Handicap on Big Dance Day at Royal Randwick, but says a trip down the New [...]
Moree Races
EMERGING young trainer Ridge Wilson returns to Moree on Friday with a plan to register his first winner for new stable client, well-known Moree local Les Quinn. Wilson, fresh from wins last week at Tamworth and Armidale, saddles up Quinn’s Lesgo Don in the 1300m Gwydir Gallop Class 1 Handicap. The gelding backs up from [...]
