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 …
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 …
Luke Baker has had his first win with the club in the Rice Concongella Vineyard 6.5 kilometre Championship. Baker said that that, “I have been running for a bit over two years after a friend challenged me to get involved in the sport. I was nervous in my first run with the club, but the …
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 …
Matilda Iglesias, fully fit again after a long, slow recovery from freakish injury, returned to the scene of her very first win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012 to triumph in the Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday. A dedicated trail runner, the thirty-seven-year-old mum had built an impressive portfolio of endurance credits before …
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 …
Stawell geologist Justine Tracey took up running in 2012 as the result of a pub bet with a workmate. Her dedication to training and racing has been sporadic since then – but she is still running and her workmate is not. All bets were off before the five kilometre Hunter Landscaping and Gardening Handicap at …
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 …
In 2012 Matilda Iglesias made her debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club never expecting the “miracle” of actually winning a race. She made nonsense of that at only her fourth start when staving off the fast-finishing Col Barnett to salute in the 6.5 kilometre Garry Rice Concongella Vineyards Handicap and last Saturday she stood …
In memory of his late father and former club president Ray Scott, son Karl, 22, ran the race of his life to win the Concongella Vineyard Handicap over 6.5 kilometres on Sunday. A cloud hung over the corresponding race last year when it was run the day after Ray’s sudden death and grey skies greeted …
