A single mum, inspired by a sponsor’s pre-race speech about a tragic loss and invigorated by a radical change to her diet, raced to a third win this season and her fifth in only her second year with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. Defying all that the club handicapper could do to stop
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Meggy Boan cast aside an old enemy and ended a frustrating sequence of second placings when she led yet another all-girl charge to win the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Warned in advance that the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club event would not be easy, the irrepressible Meggy, already a
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Motley Crue had a hit with Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987 and the girls of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club were singing that song after embarrassing the boys with another all-girl trifecta in the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap last Saturday. Not content with smashing the males in nine of the 17 races
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A random venture to Bacchus Marsh in 2011 for a cross country carnival with a boy who loves to run culminated in a family double at Halls Gap last Saturday when a father and son snatched a unique double in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain. Much like the excursion at Bacchus
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