Saturday saw the running of the David O Jones Handicap held at the Great Western Racecourse. After a few week’s break, runners had fresh legs to tackle the senior’s 8km distance, juniors’ 3km and sub juniors’ 1km runs, all of which incorporated the racecourse track. A smaller seniors’ field took on the longest run of […]
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On an overcast misty morning, the SAAC raced with SACCC for the first of three combined races this season. The club would like to thank Best’s Winery for their sponsorship and venue for the race. Peter Hilbig ran an excellent cross country race to storm home by 47 seconds ahead of Terry Jenkins and Leon
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Leon Monaghan is a handy local tennis player, but not once in his fifty-five years had he given any thought to competitive running. But good emerged from the doldrums of lockdown when Monaghan, for “something to do,” joined his seventeen-year-old daughter Elise, a promising junior athlete and gymnast, in casual runs that first became a
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Naomi Hunter became our sixth winning female in the last seven races when she captured the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club division of the eight kilometre Best’s Cross Country Classic. Now fully recovered from a nagging achilles injury, Hunter had reason to smile with a stunning two minutes to spare from evergreen Gary Saunders in the
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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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It was a day of doubles, dominated by the girls, when the region’s running clubs got together for the inaugural Best’s Winery Cross Country Classic at Great Western last Saturday. Kayleen Urquhart and Sharon Howen, who fought out the finish of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap the previous weekend, stunned
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Evergreen runner Gary Saunders staged a form reversal, something not infrequent on a racetrack, when he stunned his faster, fitter and younger rivals to win the eight kilometre Seppelts Cross Country Classic at Great Western racecourse last Sunday. After a 15th, two 16ths and a 9th at his past three starts with the Stawell and
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A home ground advantage enabled lightweight athlete Keith Lofthouse to shrug off what he termed a “losing stupor” to salute in the Seppelt Cross Country Classic on a sodden Great Western racecourse last Saturday – his first race win in more than 50 starts. It had been almost two years to the day since the veteran
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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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