Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Bush Racing
QUIRINDI trainer Geoff O’Brien makes a rare visit to Warialda tomorrow with three runners – and he says all three will run well. “I’ve only been to Warialda a few times with runners and maybe won a maiden there,” he said. O’Brien starts versatile mare Akauwheo in the 1400m Anipro Warialda Cup, with in-form apprentice [...]
Regional Sport
INVERELL Shire Council has confirmed it will host the 2026 Cricket NSW Country Blitz, following formal approval at the March Council Meeting. The event will bring high‑profile state cricketers to the region for two days of community engagement, school visits, cricket clinics and promotional activities. The Country Blitz is delivered by Cricket NSW and features [...]
Moree Sport
MOREE Junior Soccer Club and Moree Clay Target Club are two of 90 sporting organisations across New South Wales to receive automated external defibrillators through the NSW Government’s Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program. The program provides grants of up to $3000 to eligible sport and active recreation organisations to purchase automated external defibrillators for use [...]
Senior Cricket
MOREE senior cricketers Alf Newman and Darrel Smith travel to New Zealand on Saturday to represent Australia in the Aboriginal over-50s Cricket Australia Masters Tour. Smith and Newman will reunite with Moree old boys, brothers Percy and Les Raveneau, on the New Zealand tour, which takes in games against Maori teams from Auckland, Rotorua and [...]
Rugby League
AS the countdown to round one of the Group 4 rugby league season begins, Moree Boars Rugby League Club officials and coaches have never seen confidence so high and camaraderie and mateship so strong. Players are turning up to training in record numbers as the Boars’ first-grade squad, coached by Jack Durheim, chases a hat-trick [...]
Group 4 Rugby League
MOREE Boars’ under-18s squad is on-song to improve on their Group 4 rugby league debut season last year, with players still signing up as the season launch draws closer. But a few more players are needed, says coach Brent McDonald, who also plays for the Moree Boars’ first-grade premiership-winning team. “This is only our under-18s’ [...]
Elders Olympics
A group of Moree Elders travelled to the New South Wales Northern Rivers region last week to take part in the 24th Annual Aboriginal Elders Olympics at Yamba’s Raymond Laurie Sports Centre. Pius X Elders’ team member Kim Grose said the carnival was an incredible experience. “This is the second time I’ve been, but a [...]
Local Racing
MOREE trainer Doug Fernando says home track advantage will hold him in good stead at today’s seven-race St Patrick’s Day TAB card – Moree Race Club’s first meeting for 2026. Fernando saddles up four runners, including veterans Lady Cornelia and Your Temptation in the 1600m Moree Rural Fire Service BM-58 Handicap. Lady Cornelia, a nine-year-old [...]
Local Racing
WELL-travelled hoop Brooke Stower returns after a lengthy absence from one of her favourite tracks – nearly three years to the day, in fact – with a strong book of six rides at Moree tomorrow. Stower, who last rode at Moree’s corresponding March meeting in 2023, has fond memories of the circuit, where she linked [...]
Endurance Cycling
THE Squadron Energy Grafton to Inverell Classic once again lived up to its reputation as one of Australia’s toughest and most prestigious one-day cycling races, with this year’s edition producing the fastest race in the event’s history. The classic featured relentless attacks, heroic breakaways and a thrilling sprint finish in Inverell, with 22-year-old Finlay Walsh [...]
