Keith Lofthouse’s barren season of cross country running with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club came to an abrupt halt last Saturday when he staged a dramatic form reversal to win the five kilometre King of the Mountain race at Halls Gap. In fourteen starts with the club in 2019 Lofthouse had not finished closer than
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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
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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,
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Two sessions of acupuncture helped propel Nathan Baker to a surprise win in the ten kilometre Run For Ray Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, his first ever in a race of that distance. A dedicated trainer and competitor, Baker was crestfallen when a hamstring strain forced him to rest and to miss three races with
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Hardened by a tough run in the 21.5 kilometre Run Melbourne on July 27, Vicki Tyler led an all-girl charge for the second time this season to win the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Back in May it was Tyler, Jess Cass and Naomi Hunter who shared the spoils
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After long, hard days of digging, lifting, hauling and shifting Stawell landscaper David Hunter finds it difficult to find the motivation to get out and run. He trains for perhaps “one or two days a week” but that was enough to have him primed for the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre Tyler’s Rural Handicap
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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
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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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Rebecca Hurley might have to rethink her mantra that she is “not really a runner” after winning her second Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race just three starts after her maiden success in her rookie season. Twelfth and thirteenth in the Concongella Vineyards run the week before, Hurley and Naomi Hunter staged spectacular form reversals to
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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
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