NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has welcomed the State Government’s announcements of a new $100 million Regional Cultural Fund to develop new and exciting arts in cultural projects in country NSW. Mr Marshall said the fund would provide the “shot in the arm” arts and cultural...
FORMER picnic jockey Bruce Hunt will next month celebrate his 90th birthday with family and close friends however there’s another engagement that he’s keen to tick off his busy social calendar – a day out at the famous Talmoi picnic races at Garah next Saturday. As...
TALMOI Picnic Race Club, now under the leadership of president Justin Ramsay, will celebrate 106 years of racing at Garah next Saturday – a meeting that proudly continues a rich tradition of bush racing in the north-west. The six-race meeting, featuring the time-honoured 1400m Talmoi Cup...
HE’S a sway-backed gelding with a head that only a mother could love. There’s also the bunged-up knee that’s not too bad if you don’t look at it for too long, and the shocking bout of hair-loss that left the remains of his once near-black coat...
THE Moree Youth Council is relaunching, with a new focus on civic engagement and jobs skills for young people. Moree Plains Shire Council’s assistant community projects officer Jacqui Moore is a long-term co-ordinator of the Youth Council and is very excited about its new-look and refocused...
MOREE greyhound trainer Bobby Moore and her husband Gary collected the biggest win of their co-training careers when tiny bitch Petite Harbour raced away with the 302m Ladbrokes Maiden Final at their home track on Monday. And to make a memorable day at the track even...
BELIEVE it or not, fundophobia is not the fear of raising funds for charity – it is the fear of grain silos toppling over and crushing those people that are game enough to stand near them. And there is absolutely no truth to the rumour that...
IT is often said in the racing game that half a loaf of bread is better than no bread at all. And it’s a maxim that sits well with Moree trainer Doug Fernando, who watched his new stable acquisition Beau In Chains dead-heat for first at...
A FAMILY outcast was welcomed back to the fold at Mallawa on Saturday when Favourite Sister redeemed herself with a nine-length walloping in the 1200m Landmark Moree Maiden Plate. Finally, after 17 attempts and a history of feet problems, Favourite Sister posted her first win for...
STIFF-JOINTED gelding Rusty Motorbike raced like a well-oiled machine to win the 1400m B&W Rural Mallawa Cup on Saturday at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle – the heart of bush racing in the heart of the country – while Todd Payne's Victory Lass...