NEARLY 9000 anglers from across Australia last month took part in the 10th annual Pirtek Fishing Challenge, a nationwide competition aimed at raising much-needed funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Peter Duncan Neurosciences Research Unit. Anglers are required to accurately measure and photograph...
IT’S now been twice in as many weeks that Moree wool-buyer Cliff Horton has worn shoes and socks to the races – and for good reason, too. Horton, a Mungindi old boy, has been known to wear out the odd pair of double-pluggers. But in recent weeks...
MOREE’s own classical music pianist Thomas Williams returns home this week for a one-night only performance, accompanying soprano Alexandra ‘Lexi’ Hutton at Bank Art Museum Moree on Friday evening in Concert of Classics. BAMM’s evening of classical music, starting at 6.30pm, features two of the region’s...
VETERAN jockey and all-round good bloke Geoff Snowden was honoured for his services to the Warialda Jockey Club at the bush race club’s annual cup meeting on Saturday. Snowden, who turns 55 later this month, began riding at the annual meeting in 1984 – and there...
GRAFTON jockey Jodi Worley produced the ride of the day on Saturday to win the 1400m Anipro and Coolatai Rural Supplies Warialda Cup on the Sue Grills-trained Star of Legs – but the win didn’t come without its fair share of drama at the barriers. “It...
IT seemed only right that Moree’s Sinclair family should quinella the first running of the 1000m Darren Jones Memorial Sprint at Warialda on Saturday – a race named in honour of one of the greats of bush racing. Jones was tragically killed in a horrific three-horse...
WE may not have the race that stops a nation, but here in the north-west there’s no doubt we have the races that stop a region. Steeped in style and engrained into the annual social calendar, The Moree Picnic Races are to be held on Saturday,...
SPORTING clubs across the Northern Tablelands, including Moree Golf Club and Moree Football Club, will soon have the latest in life saving technology to help with cardiac arrest, thanks to $16,900 of NSW Government support provided under the new Local Sport Defibrillator program. Member for Northern...
A PALL will hang over the picturesque Warialda racecourse next Saturday as family, friends, colleagues and members of the racing community pause to remember jockey Darren Jones, one of the true greats of bush racing. Jones was tragically killed in a three-horse fall at Warialda 12...