Vineyard
Garry Rice Vineyard /

The SAAC combined with SACCC on a wet and wild Sunday for the third and last combined run of the 2022 season. Host and sponsor Gary & Rhonda Rice marked out a tough undulating 6.5km course around the vineyard. Elise Monaghan 34:04 was the fastest female and Andrew Sos was first across the line in […]
Best's /

Wiry veteran Keith Lofthouse confounded the evidence of poor form this season by scoring a surprise win in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s leg of the eight kilometre Best’s Winery event last Saturday. Lofthouse runs with both the Amateurs and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club at weekends but his form card with the
Garry Rice Vineyard /

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
Garry Rice Vineyard /

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
Garry Rice Vineyard /

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
Seppelt Great Western /

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

Athletic Club
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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
Garry Rice Vineyard, Handicap /

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
Garry Rice Vineyard /

Stung by reports in the Stawell Mail Times that likened him to a “moody racehorse”, Ararat runner Sven O’Flynn hit back by smashing a strong field of reliable campaigners in the 6.5 kilometres Garry Rice Handicap. The race was held at Rice’s fabulous Concongella vineyard last Sunday. Sven is a newcomer this year to the

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