The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s reigning champion Nathaniel Warren is on target for a sixth title, despite being blown away by a talented fun runner in the 6.5 kilometre Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday. The twenty-nine-year-old Warren is perhaps the fastest policeman in the state over a distance but, by his own admission, “couldn’t keep […]
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Endurance specialist Matilda Iglesias scored one of the luckiest wins in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s 50-year history when she pipped greybeard Gary Saunders on the post in the five kilometre Horsham Physiotherapy and Podiatry Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, the 74-year-old club Methuselah, had stopped a few metres short of the line, losing
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It seemed fitting that Colin Barnett, one of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most decorated runners, should win the race that marked the club’s 50th Anniversary at Stawell last Saturday; the race that carried the name of club founder, Keith Haymes. Barnett, 53, a club champion, veteran champion and aggregate winner on multiple occasions, has
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Greybeard Gary Saunders defied age, ten kilometres of hills, water hazards, tree roots and stones and a determined former club champion to easily win the fifth Run For Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, who will turn seventy-five in October, received 22 minutes start from Colin Barnett in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s
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