Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Texas Cup
Moree galloper Shut Eye, owned by the Our Next New Horse Syndicate, is off to the Texas Cup on Saturday, December 13 – and we’re organising a bus trip to make a real day of it. We have a driver organised and syndicate members Mark and Nat Cook have kindly loaned us their bus for [...]
Border News
GOONDIWINDI’s Hell of the West Triathlon was named medium-sized Event of the Year at the 2025 AusTriathlon annual awards ceremony, held at the Gold Coast on Saturday night. The Hell of the West is a community-run endurance event that has become a ‘must-do’ for athletes from across Australia. Winning the medium-sized Event of the Year, for [...]
Border Racing
MOREE-owned gelding Shut Eye resumed at Goondiwindi on Saturday to easily win the 1200m Port of Brisbane Cup on an historic day that saw on-course race-caller Greg Kachel call his last meeting at Gunsynd Park. Shut Eye, trained at Inverell by Wayne Oakenfull and owned by Moree’s Our Next New Horse Syndicate, was resuming after [...]
Regional Sport
FIFTEEN-year-old Olivia Earl has been named Sports Star of the Year at the 2025 Tamworth Regional Sports Awards, held last night at West Tamworth League Club. She was also named Junior Sports Star of the Year for her incredible list of feats on the athletics field over the past year, which includes a string of [...]
Lawn Bowls
MOREE Magpies Bowling Club held its championships presentation and Christmas party at Moree Services Club on Saturday, showcased by the unveiling of two new pennant scoreboards and three bench seats donated by well-known Moree families. Pennant scoreboards dedicated to Darcy and Glenda Hobday, and Allan Kite were donated by the Hobday and Kite families on Saturday. [...]
Christmas Races
MOREE Race Club is preparing for its biggest social event of the year, with the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races on Saturday, December 20 showcasing a big weekend in Moree. The Christmas race meeting has quickly become the club’s signature event, with thousands of people – young and old – expected to [...]
Lawn Bowls
HE’S been trying for more than 20 years, and this year he did it – for his mum. Phil Hobday has always been one of Moree’s best lawn-bowlers, but winning a Moree Magpies A-grade singles club championship has eluded him. Hobday’s mum, Glenda, passed away in 2018, but she’s never been far away in the [...]
On The Bunny
MEMBER for Barwon, Roy Butler, is calling for any decision to close country greyhound tracks to be put on hold pending a requested parliamentary inquiry into Greyhound Racing NSW. GRNSW has released an Optimisation Report that recommends closing 15 tracks in country New South Wales, including Coonamble and Broken Hill in the Barwon electorate. Late [...]
Local sport
MOREE Golf Club is enjoying a two-point lead on the Moree and District Cricket Association’s men’s senior summer cricket competition ladder after five rounds, with a couple of wash-outs affecting standings. After the fifth round was held last Saturday at Ron Harborne Oval, Golf Club sits on 16 points, two clear of Moree Thunder, with [...]
Youth Engagement
A $15.6 million Police Citizens Youth Club investment to deliver life-changing opportunities for young people living in regional and remote New South Wales has been announced. PCYC currently delivers different programs into 22 locations including Moree, Walgett, Kempsey, Bourke, Broken Hill and Lismore, based on community need, BOSCAR data, local police information, and experience from [...]
