Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Christmas Races
PORT Macquarie jockey Ben Looker bravely smiled as he watched Navy Buoy win the TAB Highway Handicap at Randwick on Saturday from the jockeys’ room at Moree racecourse. Looker had the choice of one ride at Randwick for Port Macquarie trainer Paul Snowden or a full book of rides at Moree, including ghostly-grey Toowoomba mare [...]
Christmas Races
RACEGOERS handled a typical Moree summer afternoon at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races on Saturday, when more than 3500 people converged on the local track to take in six races and after-party entertainment by Australian country music star Max Jackson. Moree Race Club secretary Michell Gobbert said Saturday’s twilight meeting was [...]
Christmas Races
COFFS Harbour apprentice Grady Spokes made the trip westward well worth the ‘weight’ on Saturday, with a winning double at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races. The journey to professional ranks hasn’t been easy for the 22-year-old former picnic jockey, the son of well-known Northern Rivers rider, Raymond Spokes. Not that long [...]
Christmas Races
STRAPPER and stablehand one day, jockey the next – Inverell heavyweight hoop Scott Sweedman is back in the saddle at today’s Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races with a full book of good rides. Sweedman has always struggled with weight, and when not in the saddle on race-day, he’s strapping runners and riding [...]
Christmas Races
LOCAL trainer Doug Fernando will have one runner at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races tomorrow, with stable newcomer Your Temptation representing the town in the 1400m Brett Brazel Painting BM-50 Handicap. Your Temptation, owned by the trainer’s father, Marty Fernando, arrived in Moree about a month ago from the Pakenham stables [...]
Twilight Races
MOREE’s favourite racing son Peter Sinclair returns home on Saturday with three runners at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races. Sinclair, now training a team of 12 at Murwillumbah, will saddle up Rocky Rich in the 1200m Moree Ag Supplies and Steel BM-50 Handicap and Picador in the 1600m Girard Grader Hire [...]
Thoroughbreds
WITH more than 5000 people attending 80 events organised during National Thoroughbred Week, organiser Vicky Leonard has hailed the initiative a huge success and hopes to maintain the momentum in 2026 and beyond. Modelled on National Racehorse Week, a similar concept that has been running in Britain for the past five years, National Thoroughbred Week [...]
Sport
AROUND this time last year, Moree Motorcycle Club was struggling to get half-a-dozen kids interested in slipping on a helmet and protective riding gear and learning the Motocross craft at Boolooroo Raceway. As a result, earlier this year a new program was devised by club president Matt Anderson, his wife Renee and their son Max [...]
MX Moree
MOREE Motorcycle Club on Sunday closed the 2025 season at Boolooroo Raceway with an RPA day, trophy presentation and a visit from Santa Claus – and the promise of a bigger and stronger year ahead. Club president Matt Anderson said the end-of-year Christmas party, featuring learner-riders as young as four years of age, showcased everything [...]
Mental Health
FORMER Melbourne Storm and South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL star Greg Inglis will be in Moree next week to deliver a series of engaging mental health programs as part of his ground-breaking Goanna Academy advocacy group. Inglis will be in Moree for two days, after Moree Plains Shire Council’s Community Development Team successfully obtained an Alcohol [...]
