The redoubtable Rhonda Clark performed a miracle far greater than a minor when she blitzed the biggest cross country field of the season to win the inaugural Seppelts Classic over eight kilometres in thick fog at Great Western racecourse on Sunday. Penalised 3.20 minutes for her three second win over the same distance at Ararat […]
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It’s taken two years, 30 races and an astonishing back-to-back win but male athletes with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club finally cracked it for a one, two, three finish in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Females have been dominant, winning 17 of the 30 and landing a host of “quinellas”
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Bob Freeland, a “class of 1966” foundation member of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club sacrificed a week of “beer and biscuits” to win his first ever 16 kilometre Charlie Jones Handicap in the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. Freeland, 63, likes a beer but he is otherwise a dedicated adherent to a healthy diet and a
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All-girl quinellas used to be a rarity in Stawell Amateur Athletic Club races but with the flying femmes having won six of the nine races so far this season they have almost become the norm. When Rachel Coverdale and Rhonda Clark fought out the finish of the Garry Rice Concongella Vineyard Handicap last Saturday it
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Horsham runner Selina Heard-Price overcame her “second season blues” with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club to bounce back in her third year with an overdue win in the eight kilometre Tylers Hardware Handicap at Rupanyup last Saturday. “Slim Jane” Selina and her partner Rick Price enjoyed a stunning rookie season with the club in 2011
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Rhonda Clark is one of those self-deprecating cross country runners who never thinks she has the ability to win but is as surprised as anyone when she does. The Concongella “plodder” thought she would run the slowest time when she faced the starter in the Gary Howden-sponsored Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham on Saturday, but
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In terms of personal targets, Horsham running coach Rick Price sets himself only modest goals but he achieved at least one of those when he recorded fastest time to win the five kilometre David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. After an outstanding debut season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in
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On cumulative times, the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club retained the Lindsay Kent Memorial Shield over Stawell, but Peter Barham led the way for Stawell and was first on handicap. The 56-year-old insurance broker is back training five days a week and that was good enough for him to break through for his first
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Matilda Iglesias called on key elements of her limited race experience to score a clever win over rookie Richard Clarke in blustery conditions at Horsham Weir last Saturday. In the eight kilometre Horsham Little Aths Handicap, Matilda, already a winner over 5 and 6.5 kilometres in just 18 months of racing, had a five second
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Ararat council worker Tony Davey had never run more than five kilometres in his life before he turned up in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday with more natural ability than even he imagined and cruised to an effortless win on debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. Tony, 42, received a generous mark from the
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