Sports
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‘Rock’ races switch to Kyneton
The traditional New Year’s Day race meeting that draws thousands of people to Hanging Rock is being transferred to Kyneton. The Kyneton and Hanging Rock Racing Club investigated all possible options to enable the drawcard January 1 meeting to take place at ‘The Rock’, but found it would be too difficult to hold the meeting…
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Golfers take up the challenge
Castlemaine Golf Club member Harvey Zepnick is forming a team to support the Cancer Council’s Longest Day fundraiser. Zepnick and his teammates, Marty Beck, Simon Duff and David Gaffney, will challenge themselves to play 72 holes at the Longest Day event at Castlemaine Golf Club on Sunday December 13. The event presents the ultimate golfing…
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Bid for crowds at ‘The Rock’
Kyneton and Hanging Rock Racing Club has submitted an application to enable crowds to attend its New Year’s Day and Australia Day race meetings at Hanging Rock. The application is presently under review and the club intends to make a further announcement about patron attendance at these two popular annual race meetings once its application…
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Enthusiasm at the top at Kyneton FNC
If unbridled passion and enthusiasm counts for anything, Kyneton Football Netball Club is on a winner with new president Hayden Evans at the helm. That’s the distinct impression I formed after briefly speaking with the Tigers’ new leader after the club’s annual meeting last week. Evans, 39, is clearly excited about taking on the president’s…
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Central Highlands pennant bowls down to the last end!
The first round of Central Highlands pennant bowls took place on Saturday, and the replay between last season’s division one grand finalists Kyneton and Lancefield was an absolute thriller. With the overall outcome in the balance with the last end to play, unflappable Kyneton skipper Mark Smoljo trailed the jack with Jeff Holmes holding three…
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Interstate raider wins Kyneton Cup
Former New Zealand galloper Mongolian Marshal, now trained in South Australia, won the 2020 bet365 Kyneton Cup in a thrilling three-way finish this afternoon. The six-year-old’s previous victory was in the Waikato Cup nearly two years ago, and he came off a fourth placing as a rank outsider at Caulfield, not having been placed in…
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Who will win the 2020 Kyneton Cup?
The $125,000 bet365 Kyneton Cup is the highlight of a nine-event program on Wednesday. The 2020 Cup meeting highlights Kyneton and Hanging Rock Racing Club’s season, with the district club’s premier day sandwiched between the Melbourne Cup and Oaks Day at Flemington. Last November, the Patrick Payne-trained Double You Tee seemingly had the Kyneton Cup…
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Kyneton Cup devoid of spectators
The 2020 Kyneton Cup Day race meeting takes place next Wednesday, November 4, but the usual traditional spring carnival atmosphere will be missing. “Unfortunately, after waiting for as long as possible to see if the current government restrictions on crowds would ease, the club has decided that there will be no public spectators, including members,…
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‘I’m excited too’ — new coach
“I’m excited too,” Kyneton’s new senior football coach Paul Chapman responded quickly on The Front Bar Channel 7 footy entertainment show on Thursday night. Comedian Mick Molloy had a message for the Tigers’ coach: “Can I say they’re very excited up there (Kyneton). Don’t stuff it up.” Chapman, with 280 games, three premierships and a…
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Good strike rate for jockey Jason Maskiell
Jockey Jason Maskiell has 490 career winners to his credit, and his strike rate is 100 per cent on gallopers trained by George Osborne. Two rides for two wins. Maskiell won on $101 chance Melisandre Rossa at Kyneton on October 13 at his first ride for the local trainer. Osborne indicated then he would be…
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Ex-AFL star to coach Tigers
High-profile former AFL triple premiership player Paul Chapman will coach Kyneton senior footballers next season. Chapman, 38, is now a Macedon Ranges resident and is thrilled to join the Tigers after coaching Werribee Districts and Greenvale Jets since retiring from the AFL with a record of 280 senior games (251 with Geelong and 29 with…
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Tributes flow for ‘Deano’
Shockwaves have reverberated around the cricketing world and elsewhere with the sudden untimely death of Romsey resident Dean Jones, aged 59, in India on Thursday. Tributes have poured in after news spread of Jones’ death in Mumbai, where he was commentating on the Indian Premier League. He is believed to have suffered a major heart…