Former New Zealand trainer John Sargent based at Randwick these days, can do punters a favour when Cessnock Racecourse hosts its first meeting since October on Tuesday. The popular ‘Sarge’ told yours truly on Sunday night that he is confident...
- Monday, June 1 2020
Jim O’Neill breeder of champion 2-year-old Luskin Star passed away on Tuesday night aged 88. O’Neill lived at Cessnock with his wife Marea at the time of his death. He founded the successful family business O’Neill’s Tyres, which has many...
- Thursday, May 28 2020
Newcastle jockey Andrew Gibbons’ win on 2-year-old Meadow Land at Tuesday Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting was his one-hundredth win for the season. Gibbons had a career-best season of 137 winners in 2018-2019 but he wasn’t that confident of reaching...
- Wednesday, May 27 2020
Race 1 – NBN News Class 1 Handicap 1985m Small field but five real chances. Soul Purpose is well weighted with only 54 kilograms on her back after Tom Sherry’s claim. The filly broke through for her first win at...
- Monday, May 25 2020
Kris Lees has produced three outstanding two-year old’s in recent months and he saddles up another at Newcastle on Tuesday. On March 22 Lees filly Zeftabrook in the Australian Bloodstock colours, won the Muswellbrook Starmaker and two weeks later she...
- Monday, May 25 2020
Maitland breeder and owner Edwina Throsby who bred and shared in the ownership of the former world’s best sprinter Chautauqua, could have another future star bred on the family’s magnificent property. At Newcastle on Saturday a two-year-old half-brother to Chautauqua...
- Monday, May 25 2020