Almost to the day after breaking a five year drought in winning the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s Chris Blake Handicap last year, injured veteran Stephen Baird scored back to back wins in the same race at Great Western racecourse last Saturday. Baird, once a regular winner on the region’s track and cross country circuit, was […]
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Inspired by husband Gary’s post-holiday win just three days after stepping off a plane from Los Angeles, wife Sharon Howden emulated his feat by winning the David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell exactly one week later. Sharon finished eighth, more than three minutes behind Gary in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre
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Simon Gallagher is a runner with natural ability; a self-confessed “mountain goat” who doesn’t need to train to win. Justine Tracey is no natural; no stylist when she runs. Effort tells on her face with every stride she takes, but she does train, challenging her body each week to climb 4.5 kilometres up Mount Arapiles,
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Veteran athlete Stephen Baird, once a regular winner on the region’s track and cross country circuits but almost crippled by injury 18 months ago, ended a five year drought when he won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s three kilometre Chris Blake Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Baird tore his hamstring from the bone, “heard
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By his own admission 47-year-old Tim Harris won the battle of the bulge but then like a freight train “ran off the rails” and lost the battle all over again. Harris is a big bloke who has always carried extra weight, but then an unhealthy lot more when he starts to believe the battle is
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After a gruelling 20 kilometre run in the Wings for Life World Run in Melbourne just six days earlier, endurance athlete Matilda Iglesias surprised herself when she was able to back up with a win in the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. A surprise starter in the Stawell Amateur Athletic
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Enigmatic runner Sven O’Flynn bemoaned the fact that he’d found the form so late in the season that enabled him to win a race last Saturday – his first with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club since 2010. O’Flynn runs for both the Stawell club (Saturdays) and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club (Sundays) but
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If Gary Saunders was a racehorse rather than a runner he might have been the subject of a stewards’ inquiry by now. What sort of jungle juice is he on? How could a 72-year-old, the equivalent of a 10-year-old in racehorse years, win for the third time in 13 races by running the fastest times
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Horsham’s Gary Howden continued the unexpected dominance of male athletes over female in this Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a narrow win in the 10 kilometre Run for Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday. The club’s keen contingent of female runners have won more than half of the 40-odd races programmed by the club
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Club rookie Kate Collins who in 28 years had never been involved in organised sport was the first female winner in four races this year at only her fourth start. Kate became a member almost on a whim after meeting club stalwart and other club runners for a regular Monday night training session at Stawell’s
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