‘Pedro’ Taunton honoured with life membership of Mallawa Picnic Race Club
PETER Taunton, the man widely known as ‘Pedro’, was honoured with life membership of the Mallawa Picnic Race Club at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday. Taunton, a hardworking committee member who was this year instrumental in redesigning and reshaping the famous Mallawa racetrack, started farming in the district with his wife
Big Boars on Tour reunion planned for Moree, August 8
ON April 13, 1991, a busload of retired rugby league players from Moree jumped on a bus and took off to Deepwater for a day at the races. The cup that year was won by Johnny Berger’s Starbrook, ridden by Gary Baker, and some of these retired footballers had a nice little collect. The following
Business as usual at Mallawa for leading jockey Leandro Ribeiro
IT was business as usual for leading picnic jockey Leandro Ribeiro at Mallawa on Saturday, when the Brazilian expat brought home a winning double at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle. Ribeiro, who rides primarily for Connie Greig, has ridden 37 winners on the New South Wales picnic circuit this season, and teamed up
O’Brien and Lewis take out 2026 Mallawa Cup with Akauwheo
QUIRINDI trainer Geoff O’Brien and Tamworth jockey Zara Lewis teamed up with quirky mare Akauwheo to win the 1400m B&W Rural-Titan Ag Mallawa Cup at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday. O’Brien and Lewis also won the Mallawa Bracelet two years ago with Super Hot, and reunited on Saturday to win the
Record numbers representing Moree at Coolah cross country zone qualifiers
MOREE junior athletics coach Ronny Clissold is going out on a limb. Next Thursday, June 11, a group of young athletes – all members of Ronny’s Runners – will travel to Coolah, about one hour south-east of Coonabarabran, to compete in zone qualifiers for the NSW PSSA Cross Country Championships at Sydney International Equestrian Centre
Sir Brian Crowley: The wiry old giant of the racing world
THE development of picnic racing across the district during the early part of the 20th century was an important chapter of an incredible era of country racing in the New South Wales north and north-west. There is evidence of sporadic, charity-driven race meetings as far back as the mid-1800s but picnic racing across the black-soil
Geoff O’Brien Mallawa Cup bound with tough mare Akauwheo
QUIRINDI trainer Geoff O’Brien has confirmed tough mare Akauwheo will start in the 1400m Mallawa Cup at round two of bush racing’s Golden Triangle on Saturday. The mare, a winner at Talmoi last year, has been in work for more than 12 months, and will carry 69kg in the $12,000 bush feature. “She’s big enough
A double to Luke Rolls at Moree TAB meeting
MID north coast jockey Luke Rolls made the trip inland well and truly worth it on Tuesday, with a winning double at Moree Race Club’s big seven-race TAB meeting. Rolls partnered impressive three-year-old gelding Devilish Sun to a soft win in the 1200m Big Sky Country Maiden Handicap and 40 minutes later booted home four-year-old
“Moses” parts runners to win at Moree Tuesday
ARMIDALE trainer Lea Selby ended a long run of outs when tough old gelding Set to Prophet – affectionately known as Moses – won the September 6 Moree Cup BM-58 Handicap at Moree on Tuesday. Selby, whose last winner was the aptly-named Invincible Faith at Deepwater back in January, went within a long-head of landing
Izzy’s switch from picnic to professional ranks continues at Moree today
TWO years ago this month, Izzy Neale was riding at Mallawa and Talmoi picnic races as an amateur jockey. Today at Moree, as a claiming apprentice in the professional ranks, Neale has three rides for her boss, Dubbo trainer Brett Robb. Neale rode her first winner at her first ride in a race at Condobolin
