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2026 Golden Triangle
QUIRINDI trainer Geoff O’Brien has confirmed tough mare Akauwheo will start in the 1400m Mallawa Cup at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday. The mare, a winner at Talmoi last year, has been in work for more than 12 months, and will carry 69kg in the $12,000 bush feature. “She’s big enough [...]
Local Racing
MID north coast jockey Luke Rolls made the trip inland well and truly worth it on Tuesday, with a winning double at Moree Race Club’s big seven-race TAB meeting. Rolls partnered impressive three-year-old gelding Devilish Sun to a soft win in the 1200m Big Sky Country Maiden Handicap and 40 minutes later booted home four-year-old [...]
Parkes Electorate
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey is asking people within the Parkes electorate to have their say about what is important to them. In a new 30 second survey, Mr Chaffey is requesting residents throughout the electorate to list the issues that concern them the most. “One of the most important parts of representing your [...]
Regional Soccer
ARMIDALE will welcome aspiring young footballers from across the region in July as the 2026 George Cowie West Ham United Football Selection Camp comes to the city for an exciting two-day program at the Rologas sporting fields. Taking place on July 13-14 and supported by Armidale Regional Council, the camp will provide boys and girls [...]
Local Racing
ARMIDALE trainer Lea Selby ended a long run of outs when tough old gelding Set to Prophet – affectionately known as Moses – won the September 6 Moree Cup BM-58 Handicap at Moree on Tuesday. Selby, whose last winner was the aptly-named Invincible Faith at Deepwater back in January, went within a long-head of landing [...]
Border Crime
Police have charged a man and a woman following an ongoing investigation into stolen property and drug offences in Goondiwindi. A 42-year-old Goondiwindi woman has been charged with 13 counts of supplying drugs, two counts each of possess dangerous drugs, possessing anything for use in the commission of crime and receiving tainted goods. She has [...]
Myall Creek
THE University of New England will host the Myall Creek Memorial Symposium on Friday, June 5 at the Oorala Aboriginal Centre. The symposium will be held ahead of the annual memorial service held at the Myall Creek site near Bingara on Sunday, June 7. The event, a flagship of Oorala’s 40th anniversary year, moves beyond [...]
Murray-Darling Basin
EMERGING leaders across the Murray-Darling Basin are being called to nominate for the first round of a new leadership development program focused on securing a sustainable future for the Murray–Darling Basin. With applications for the inaugural intake of the Murray–Darling Basin Leadership Program closing on Sunday June 7, 2026, Murray–Darling Basin Authority chief executive Andrew [...]
Local Racing
TWO years ago this month, Izzy Neale was riding at Mallawa and Talmoi picnic races as an amateur jockey. Today at Moree, as a claiming apprentice in the professional ranks, Neale has three rides for her boss, Dubbo trainer Brett Robb. Neale rode her first winner at her first ride in a race at Condobolin [...]
Central North Rugby
MOREE Rugby Union Club celebrated Old Bulls’ day at the weekend, nearly 40 years to the day the Bulls played Inverell Highlanders at Weebolla Oval. On June 14, 1986, Moree Weebolla Bulls created local rugby history when they beat the Highlanders in the club’s first home game. Bulls club president, David Watts, said more than [...]
