Endurance specialist Matilda Iglesias scored one of the luckiest wins in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s 50-year history when she pipped greybeard Gary Saunders on the post in the five kilometre Horsham Physiotherapy and Podiatry Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, the 74-year-old club Methuselah, had stopped a few metres short of the line, losing […]
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It seemed fitting that Colin Barnett, one of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most decorated runners, should win the race that marked the club’s 50th Anniversary at Stawell last Saturday; the race that carried the name of club founder, Keith Haymes. Barnett, 53, a club champion, veteran champion and aggregate winner on multiple occasions, has
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Greybeard Gary Saunders defied age, ten kilometres of hills, water hazards, tree roots and stones and a determined former club champion to easily win the fifth Run For Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, who will turn seventy-five in October, received 22 minutes start from Colin Barnett in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s
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Former running heavyweight Tim Harris overcame a near disastrous navigational error on course to race away with the ten kilometre Stawell Sportspower Handicap last Saturday. After training up to 80 kilometres a week in preparation for the Adelaide Marathon on August 14 Harris could be forgiven for settling into a trance-like rhythm in the Stawell
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The planets aligned yet again for veteran cross country runner Keith Lofthouse when he easily won the 7.7 kilometre Tyler’s Hardware and Rural Handicap for the third time at Rupanyup last Saturday. “Somehow I seem to grow another leg for this race,” said the sixty-seven-year-old who repeated his success of last year, and has now
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If the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap was a horse race the whimsical Irishman Sven O’Flynn would have started at odds of 100-1. Prince of Penzance proved that 100-1 outsiders do win races, even Melbourne Cups, but it’s fair to say that even the Prince before his big race had better form
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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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Kayleen Urquhart warmed up for a tilt at the Sydney Marathon in September by breaking through for her first-ever cross country win in the Stephen Baird five kilometre handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Urquhart, whose running goal is to finish a marathon in every state and territory in Australia, had won triathlons with Melbourne’s
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Inspired by husband Gary’s post-holiday win just three days after stepping off a plane from Los Angeles, wife Sharon Howden emulated his feat by winning the David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell exactly one week later. Sharon finished eighth, more than three minutes behind Gary in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre
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From the rolling hills of San Francisco, to the High Line of New York, to Mission Beach at San Diego Gary Howden ran everywhere he could while on a three week holiday and was rewarded with a win in the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap at Stawell last Saturday just two days after his return.
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