Halls Gap masseuse Tina Baker has completed six half marathons in her twenty years of recreational running but never in her life had won a competitive foot race until she romped away with the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Baker was favourably handicapped in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club
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Whiskered warrior Gary Saunders spoiled the birthday party for Kayleen Urquhart when he staged a massive form reversal to win the Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. Having finished near the tale of the field (fifteenth and twelfth) at his previous two starts, Saunders, at seventy-five the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s oldest
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Forced to quit A-grade netball and basketball due to a knee reconstruction, an overweight Amy Yole laughed at her doctor’s advice that she should take up cross country running. “It was something I had never given a moment’s thought to. To me, the suggestion came so far from left field that I just thought it
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This time last year trail and endurance runner Matilda Iglesias wondered if she would ever regain the level of fitness that made her the most regular of winners on the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club cross country calendar. Struck down with a severe cold in October 2016, Iglesias bulged a disc in her back during a
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