Gary Harley’s Updates

Kris Lees and Aaron Bullock dominated Tuesday’s seven race program on the Newcastle course proper with four winners each. Lees and Bullock combined with three winners- Lord Winston, Spellcatcher and Miracle Day. The trainers apprentice Bailey Wheeler rode his third...

Race 1 – Sharp Office Benchmark 58 Handicap 1150m Mosht Up is in good form and she drops in class. The mare has been placed in her past three starts at Wyong, Muswellbrook, and Newcastle. She was only beaten half...

Kris Lees will saddle up three genuine chances at the Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting on the course proper track on Tuesday after the decision was made to shift from the Beaumont track due to the recent wet weather. The...

The Newcastle Jockey Club’s The Hunter race day on Saturday was a resounding success with record betting turnover, a full house under the Covid restrictions, and a perfectly prepared track following a deluge during the week. On the track racegoers...

Race 1- NZB Airfreight Max Lees Classic 900m Uncorked is a filly which impressed with a nice Randwick barrier trial win on October 29. She has genuine speed and she was strong to the line in the trial. Vancouvers Crown...

The third edition of the $1million The Hunter (1300m) on Saturday at Newcastle has attracted the classiest field in the races short history. The favourite, Lost And Running is the only horse so far to contest both The Everest and...

Newcastle stable mates Harvey’s Way and Contributingfactor starred on the eight race program at the Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. Trained on the track by David Atkins, the pair of three-year old’s have indicated in their short careers to date that...

Race 1 Jennings Print – Maiden Plate 1250m Chris Waller has accepted with seven of the ten runners. On form and barrier trials, Wallers Captivare is the one to beat. He has had 11 starts for 7 placings and was...

28 year-old Muswellbrook trainer Justin Bowen is confident an outside barrier won’t prevent his talented filly In Spades providing her trainer with his first provincial winner at Newcastle on Saturday. In Spades, a veteran of only three starts resumes from...

Hawksbury based jockey Grant Buckley’s run of success in Country Cups continued on Monday when he produced the ride of the day to win the TAB Venue Mode Jungle Juice Cup (1350m) on the NJC’s Beaumont track. Buckley was reunited...