NJC News

    Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup heads to Thursday’s Newcastle race meeting with three winning prospects and the popular trainer is hoping for a change of fortune. Only last Saturday, Widdup’s bonnie mare Icebath dashed to the lead inside the 100-metre point...
    • Wednesday, April 14 2021
    Irishman Lee Magorrian produced a career best performance at the NJC race meeting on Saturday when he rode four winners on the eight-race program. Magorrian, who is attached to the Chris Waller stable, rode the first four winners including a...
    • Tuesday, April 13 2021
    By Julieanne Horsman While Happy Clapper is famous for his impressive Group 1 victories at Royal Randwick, Newcastle was also a happy hunting ground for the people’s horse. He raced there twice for a win in the 2017 Group 3...
    • Monday, April 12 2021
    Race 1 PFD Food Services Maiden Handicap1865m Yellowstone was backed from double figures into $3.10 on debut at Gosford on March 27. After racing in second place, he tired to be beaten four lengths. He had been trialling well and...
    • Friday, April 9 2021
    Newcastle’s premier trainer Kris Lees left the Newcastle Racecourse a happy man and rightly so on Tuesday. His Doncaster Mile favourite Mugatoo galloped brilliantly between races and he took the lead in the Newcastle Trainer’s Premiership after saddling up two...
    • Wednesday, March 31 2021
    Race 1- Reward Hospitality 2YO Maiden Handicap – 900m Most of the field are on debut and there are a number of good triallists. Heavenly Field led in a recent Rosehill trial and was narrowly beaten by a horse that...
    • Monday, March 29 2021