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  • Tributes flow for ‘Deano’

    Tributes flow for ‘Deano’

    Shockwaves have reverberated around the cricketing world and elsewhere with the sudden untimely death of Romsey resident Dean Jones, aged…

  • Gold Nugget bonanza

    Gold Nugget bonanza

    Now prepared at Sutton Grange, former West Australian galloper Coming Around comfortably took out the feature event at Ballarat races…

  • League aims for independence

    League aims for independence

    Woodend-Hesket Football Netball Club president Paul Podbury is enthusiastic about the Riddell League moving away from the AFL Goldfields hub…

  • PREMIERS GONE: League unhappy with AFL Victoria

    PREMIERS GONE: League unhappy with AFL Victoria

    “The Riddell District Football Netball League is extremely disappointed with the decision of AFL Victoria given the timing, after requesting…

  • Castlemaine Lawn Tennis Club awarded $10,000

    Castlemaine Lawn Tennis Club awarded $10,000

    Castlemaine Lawn Tennis Club is set to receive a $10,000 boost as part of the ANZ Community Grant program. The…

  • Major community and sports pavilion

    Major community and sports pavilion

    Across several generations, Assumption College at Kilmore has drawn students from the Macedon Ranges area, and continues to do so….

  • Hot Seat easily

    Hot Seat easily

    Maldon-trained galloper Hot Seat scored an impressive win at Kilmore races on Saturday. It was the seven-year-old gelding’s first victory…

  • Last stride victory …

    Last stride victory …

    Wins have been relatively scarce for Kyneton-trained gallopers during August, but Misscino flew home to score in a photo-finish in…

  • Trentham’s glory years

    Trentham’s glory years

    Trentham Football Club’s glory years in the Riddell League were surely from 1956 to 1961, with three premierships to celebrate…

  • Paris Gem shines

    Paris Gem shines

    A bargain buy as a weanling for just $800, Paris Gem is the pin-up girl in trainer Sue Naylor’s stables…

  • Easy for Coming Around

    Easy for Coming Around

    Sutton Grange trainer Brent Stanley has a high opinion of former Perth galloper Coming Around, and his view was vindicated…

  • Ready to go, now in doubt

    Ready to go, now in doubt

    Clubs in the Gisborne District Cricket Association have had their 2020-21 season prospects thrown into doubt with the dramatic COVID-19…