Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Rugby League
MOREE and Boggabri are preparing for huge Whitehaven Coal Group Finals. Boughton Oval, Moree will be in first-class condition for Saturday’s major semi- final between the Moree Boars and Werris Creek Magpies. At Boggabri on Sunday, it’s a similar condition for the local Kangaroos, who will host the Whitehaven Coal minor semi-finals. Moree’s Boughton Oval [...]
They’re Racing!
THE Grays Online 2024 Moree Cup meeting and cup-eve charity dinner will be held at Moree racecourse over the Fathers’ Day weekend, with dinner tickets and race-day marquee tickets now available online. The August 31 dinner, featuring former Australian rugby league international, Polar Bear Ben Hannant, raises funds for Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service and is [...]
Rugby League
MOREE captain-coach Michael Watton had some tough decisions to make this week as he planned his club’s match plan for the Whitehaven Coal Group 4 First Grade major semi-final against Werris Creek at Boughton Oval on Saturday. Trying to fit 19 into 17 doesn’t work as he had some tough talks with some disappointed players. [...]
Major Semis
WERRIS Creek go to Boughton Oval under no pressure for Saturday’s Whitehaven Coal Group 4 First Grade major semi-final. That’s the word from Magpies’ coach Dave Stewart after he was able to name an unchanged side for the game which will deliver the winner a home ground advantage Grand Final. “We will go out there [...]
Moree to the UK
ON August 18, 1973, Gregg Humphries was part of Moree High School’s University Shield-winning team against Forbes High School at Gosford’s Grahame Park. Fifty-one years later to the day in England, Gregg’s son, Rob Humphries, celebrated as coach and club chairman, a grand-final win by Anglian Vipers Rugby League in the East Premier Division. The [...]
Racing
THE New South Wales picnic racing industry has received an enormous boost, with an additional $50,000 race added to the 2024-2025 turf calendar. Picnic Racing Association secretary Deidre Adam recently met with Racing NSW supremos Peter V’landys and Scott Kennedy with a proposal for a 1000m picnic championship sprint race to complement the hugely-successful 1400m [...]
Olympics
MOREE old boy Max Hitchins has done it again. The man known widely as the Hospitality Doctor and Melbourne Cup expert has written another book – and his latest work of historical non-fiction is a ground-breaking, world-first. Chasing Gold is a collection of short stories about the incredible athletes who have experienced the highs and [...]
Greyhounds
THE future of greyhound racing in Moree looks marginally brighter, with Greyhound Racing NSW acting CEO Wayne Billett recently meeting with industry stakeholders at club headquarters. Mr Billett sat down with trainers Neil Dallison, Helen Ayre, Doug James, and Gary and Bobby Moore, to discuss the immediate future of greyhound racing in Moree. Mr Moore [...]
Racing Dynasty
PETER Sinclair and his family, long regarded local racing royalty, have farewelled Moree. Sinclair, a fourth generation racehorse trainer, now trains privately near Murwillumbah for Sutton Park Racing supremo, Mark Sowerby. It’s a move the trainer anticipated for quite some time, but a day at the Moree races without a Sinclair runner – or winner [...]
Legends
TWO Moree legends of rugby league were remembered mid-season, with special days at Boughton Oval remembering Bernie Briggs and Paul ‘Poey’ Raveneau. Moree Boars in July thumped Narrabri Blues 78-22 at a sponsors’ day round, honouring the late Bernie Briggs, a sporting icon and treasured member of the Moree community. Briggs died in 2017, age [...]
