Sports
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Gold Nugget bonanza
Now prepared at Sutton Grange, former West Australian galloper Coming Around comfortably took out the feature event at Ballarat races on Sunday. Trainer Brent Stanley said he would see how the five-year-old pulled up, with future races likely to include some country cups and races just below Group 1 level. The Mortimer Petroleum Gold Nugget,…
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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 and being self administered in 2021. At the weekend, Podbury elaborated on the benefits the club presidents and current league board members saw in being more independent. “The league wants to still be affiliated with…
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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 stability during a global pandemic.” This was the blunt reaction of RDFNL president Brenton Knott last week on learning AFL Victoria’s Objection Hearing Panel had dismissed the league’s objection to 2019 premiers Rupertswood transferring to…
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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 local club was one of 20 lucky organisations to receive funding support. ANZ Community Grant ambassador and tennis champ, Dylan Alcott, surprised club members with the news over a Zoom call, enabling them to meet…
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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. The renowned Catholic co-educational secondary day and boarding college in the Marist Brothers tradition has a long and proud history, and later this year a significant building will get underway. The new state-of-the-art Neale Daniher…
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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 since May 30 last year. Co-trainers Brian and Ashley McKnight had no worries as Hot Seat, ridden by apprentice Alana Kelly, dominated the 0-58 benchmark Kingsgate Village Handicap over 1200m. Appreciating the good track, Hot…
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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 the final event at Warracknabeal on Saturday. Trainer Helen White’s previous win with the six-year-old was at the same track, back on May 16 this year. White prepares a small team, and the impeccably bred…
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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 — one when the team became the first to go through a season winning all matches. Trentham first joined the RDFL in 1953 and departed to join the Clunes League in 1966, having fluctuating fortunes…
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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 off the Woodend-Tylden Road. “While she’s still small, but very honest and has got stronger as she has become older,” was how Naylor described the six-year-old mare after her runaway win at the Ballarat Synthetic…
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Easy for Coming Around
Sutton Grange trainer Brent Stanley has a high opinion of former Perth galloper Coming Around, and his view was vindicated at Flemington on Saturday. The five-year-old was sent out as a $3 favourite in the $125,000 G.H. Mumm Plate over 1410m, and never looked like being beaten. “His last couple of gallops were sensational,” Stanley…
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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 State of Disaster declared on Sunday. Will there be a normal season? Perhaps not with the degree of uncertainty which has erupted. Lancefield Cricket Club was one club keen and virtually ready to go, with…
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Beanies make Gisborne No. 1
Gisborne Football Netball Club and its affiliates have raised $88,880 this year for FightMND Big Freeze 6, by far the largest amount by any community fundraising group. “As a club, as a community, we are only too pleased to support FightMND and the battle against the deadly disease,” Gisborne FNC president John Wood said at…