CHOCOLATE-chip cookie connoisseur Clancy Carroll is a young girl driven by ambition and at 11 years of age is arguably Moree’s youngest entrepreneur. Her home-made chocolate-chip cookies have in just a couple of years become must-haves for many Moree residents – and those that haven’t tried...
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Words, images Copyright Bill Poulos A HORSE that connections had never intended starting on the picnic circuit has rewritten north-western turf history by becoming just the third horse in 85 years to win all three picnic cups at Moree, Mallawa and Talmoi – bush-racing’s Golden Triangle...
Words, Image Copyright Bill Poulos MOREE trainer Peter Sinclair capped a remarkable Golden Triangle by leading back three winners at Garah on Saturday, including history-making gelding Tapakeg in the 1400m B&W Rural Talmoi Cup. Tapakeg joined Mulgate (1961) and Gefilte (1988) as just the third horse in...
Words, images Copyright Bill Poulos 2014 GOLDEN Triangle cups’ king Peter Sinclair is poised to rewrite bush racing history if Tapakeg takes its place in the 1400m B&W Rural Talmoi Cup at Garah on Saturday. Tapakeg, winner of the Boolooroo and Mallawa Cups at legs one and...
Words, images Copyright Bill Poulos MORE than 1000 mourners from across Australia gathered at Moree’s St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church on Monday to farewell former jockey and all-round good bloke Noel Colvin, one of bush racing’s best-known – and lovable – characters. Noel, a former top jockey...
(this page is ongoing) [caption id="attachment_2877" align="alignleft" width="372"] When I walk in the PO Hotel, I see Red, I see Red, I see Red . . . I see Red-ed-ed, I see Red!! (with abject apologies to Split Enz). Steven Red Lloyd, a long-serving (pun intended)...
Words Copyright Bill Poulos 2014 (images supplied) IT was August, 1981 and the great horse Kingston Town was at unbackable odds to win the 1200m Premiere Stakes. The King, first-up since winning the Cox Plate the previous year, was expected to make a romp of it for...
Words, image copyright Bill Poulos 2014 MOREE turf legend and former champion bush jockey Noel Colvin – the cheeky little bloke who was just as well-known away from the racetrack as he was on it – has passed away after battling a short illness. He was 77. Noel,...
