Third in the first race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season and second in the next it didn’t seem likely that Jess Cass would have to wait seventeen races before breaking through in the sixteen kilometre Life Members Handicap, her first win in over two years. In the forty starts since winning Best’s Cross …
Veteran cross country runner, Terry Jenkins, spent late Saturday afternoon in recovery mode sitting on a book rueing the thought of yet another race that had gotten away. Winless so far this year after nine weeks of seconds, thirds and fourths, Jenkins led the ten kilometre Stawell Sportspower Handicap for most of the last quarter, …
The unprecedented run of success being enjoyed by first season runners with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club continued last Saturday when Brad Robinson won the five kilometre Rupanyup Garden Centre Handicap to become the sixth rookie in the past eight races to break through. Robinson had intended only to support his son, Dale, in the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The too often underrated Rhonda Rice has done it again! Judicious in picking and choosing races to her liking, she bobbed up for only the sixth time in the seventeenth race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season to snatch victory in the 16 kilometre One More Step For Ray Rickard Handicap at Stawell last …
David Hunter’s late decision to run the Melbourne Marathon in October was a key factor in him notching his second cross country win for the season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. Having won the eight kilometre Lindsay Kent Memorial in May, Hunter drifted in and out of form and motivation before he decided …
