Gary Harley’s Updates

RACE 1 – LOVEY’S GROCERS IGA SUPER 2YO MAIDEN PLATE (900 METRES) Mednyi is very quick and shared the lead when beaten less than a length first up on this track on February 15. In his only other start in...

The Newcastle Jockey Club hosts a cracking Qualifier of the 1400 metre Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship on Saturday which is also the Settlers Arms Dungog Cup Race Day. 2024 Group 3 Cameron Handicap runner up Matcha Latte resumes from a...

Gary Harley – Wrap – 18.02.25 Former Newcastle Knights first grader Darren Treacy, who trained his first starter at Muswellbrook in November 2023, was on cloud nine after saddling up his first winner at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting...

Rubi’s Serve who is racing well on the Newcastle tracks is well placed in the final event at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Mark Minervini’s mare has drawn perfectly in barrier three in the 1400 metre The...

Hawkesbury based senior jockey Grant Buckley returned to Newcastle for the first time in more than eight months to steer home a treble at Saturday’s Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting. Buckley, who has ridden more than 2500 winners, only returned...

Race 1 – Bonvilla Estate 2YO Maiden Handicap 900m Gaeilge the Godolphin 2-year-old is a speedy colt with clearly the best form. He was only beaten half a length by Comedy in the Kirkham at Randwick in October after leading....

In recent years James Cummings has chosen the spacious Newcastle track to kick off the careers of subsequent Group 1 stars Cylinder and Broadsiding and on Saturday he will send another promising two-year-old Gaeilge to the Newcastle Racecourse to contest...

The Gai Waterhouse-Adrian Bott trained blueblood Format pulled off a decent plunge for supporters when he narrowly defeated John O’Shea -Tom Charlton trained mare Ana Carolina in the opening event at the NJC’s race meeting on the Beaumont track on...

Blueblood colt Format from the Waterhouse-Bott stable travels to Newcastle for the NJC’s Beaumont track race meeting on Monday with connections hoping for better luck than his last start appearance in the city on January 21. The 3-year-old is a...

Newcastle trainer Mark Minervini’s short course double at Saturday’s Newcastle Racecourse meeting rounded off a successful week for the popular trainer. The former South Australian who proudly calls Newcastle home these days saddled up Ocean Joy and Shall Be for...