Rebecca Hurley might have to rethink her mantra that she is “not really a runner” after winning her second Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race just three starts after her maiden success in her rookie season. Twelfth and thirteenth in the Concongella Vineyards run the week before, Hurley and Naomi Hunter staged spectacular form reversals to …
For 6.4 kilometres of the 6.5 kilometre Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday it was a war of attrition between a fresh-faced rookie and a wily veteran…and it came down to a 100 metre sprint that finally blew the greybeard away. Michelle Dunn’s first win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club was well overdue after her …
Caught on the run with telephone in hand taking care of business in the Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, Meghann O’Brien dashed from the course not realising she had won on debut. A locum radiographer, O’Brien was on call in case of emergency and was anxious to finish the Stawell Amateur …
The Stawell Athletic Club’s oldest runner, Gary Saunders, defeated one of the newest in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap on Saturday, and then offered some helpful hints to runner-up, Michelle Dunn, who is still to break through for her maiden win. The Bonnie Dundee course on the edge of the Ironbarks is notorious for …
After years of flirting with running clubs, but lacking the confidence to join, Rebecca Hurley finally connected with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club and broke through for her first win in any sort of foot race last Saturday. “I’m really not a runner,” she insisted after the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap, but …
Rookie Kate Field broke through at only her third official run with the Stawell Club, edging out fellow novice Michelle Dunn who was unlucky not to win the week before after mistaking the course. Seventy-seven-year-old greybeard Gary Saunders was a gallant third. “This is a real surprise to me,” an excited Field said. “I never …
In a week in which Stawell received an overdue deluge, Nathan Baker emulated Peter Barham’s drought breaking-win of the previous week in posting his first cross-country win since 2014 in the five kilometre Axis Employment Handicap last Saturday. Like Barham, whose appearances with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club have been spasmodic over the past few …
Peter Barham broke through for his first race win since 2013 with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday and then was embarrassed to accept his prize. “I don’t know if I deserve this,” the Stawell insurance broker said sheepishly after the five kilometre Mitre 10 Handicap. “I haven’t run in enough races! I haven’t …
Vicki Tyler made amends for a barren season of racing in 2018 by leading an all-girl charge to a surprise win in the five-and-a-half kilometre Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. In twelve runs with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last season, Tyler managed just one-third placing but had otherwise finished no …
Eleven-year-old Will Moloney became the youngest winner in the fifty-three-year history of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, after matching motors with more seasoned rivals in the five kilometre Barham Insurance Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. Deciding that he was fit and strong enough not to contest the one kilometre Sub-Junior scamper, the wiry Will lined …
