TAKE a female Pommy jockey that hadn’t ridden an outright thoroughbred winner after 16 years of trying. Add to the mix a trainer that was just a couple of months ago entrusted with a big team of horses and who was also finding that breakthrough winner...
IT was a big night at last Thursday’s Moree Plains Shire Council meeting, with councillors endorsing a number of important strategic plans for the future of the Shire. Under NSW Government legislation, following their election, every council is required to revisit the 10Year Plan for its...
MOREE Plains Gallery’s long-awaited reopening after refurbishment will take place on Friday, July 7 after a month-long closure. The opening coincides with NAIDOC week and the launch of the gallery’s latest exhibition Yeladu! Kamilaroi Art Today, which features the works of eight emerging and established artists. Yeladu!...
WORK on a concrete slab that has been on Gwydir Industry’s wish-list for “years” will start in July, thanks to a $5500 donation from Moree Lodge Courallie. Nearly $3000 was raised at a trivia night earlier this year and that money was matched dollar-for-dollar by Masonicare,...
AFTER spending eight years out of the saddle raising a young family and overcoming a series of track falls, injuries and just plain old bad luck, jockey Kath Bell-Pitomac is back where she belongs – at the racetrack on race-day booting home winners. Bell-Pitomac has been...
MOREE trainer Nathan Sinclair reckons he doesn't need the intelligence of Einstein to know that the next number in the sequence 4-3-2 is one. And after finishing fourth at Coonamble, third at Moree and second at Mallawa with Our Boy Danny in recent weeks, Sinclair reckons...
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...