If Gary Saunders was a racehorse rather than a runner he might have been the subject of a stewards’ inquiry by now. What sort of jungle juice is he on? How could a 72-year-old, the equivalent of a 10-year-old in racehorse years, win for the third time in 13 races by running the fastest times […]
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Reigning Stawell Amateur Athletic Club champion Nathaniel Warren wound up his preparation for the Adelaide Marathon on August 24 with a blistering win in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap in the local Ironbarks last Saturday. Conceding as much as 12 to 16 minutes start to the slower front-markers “Rabbit” Warren scythed his way through
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Greybearded runner Gary Saunders likes to lead in his races and gets plenty of chances to do so as he is usually first to start in handicap races with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. But he is entitled; at 72 years of age he is the club’s most senior member. With his large frame, flowing
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Reigning Stawell Amateur Athletic Club champion Nathaniel Warren showed ominous intent aimed at a fifth title this season when he blitzed a field of stunned chasers to easily win the Barham Insurance Handicap at Deep Lead last Saturday. The Stawell policeman was starting a shift at 3pm and had little more than 30 minutes to
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The unstoppable 72-year-old greybeard Gary Saunders surprised no one but himself when he opened the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a slogging win in the five kilometre Dooen Engineering Handicap in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Club-mates know never to doubt the redoubtable veteran who year after year has proven himself to be one
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Landscape gardener, golfer and cricketer Dave Hunter put down the tools, the clubs, and the pads and ran for his life at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday to achieve something he didn’t think possible at the start of 2013. Showing the benefit of his rookie season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, Hunter took control
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A single mum, inspired by a sponsor’s pre-race speech about a tragic loss and invigorated by a radical change to her diet, raced to a third win this season and her fifth in only her second year with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. Defying all that the club handicapper could do to stop
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Motley Crue had a hit with Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987 and the girls of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club were singing that song after embarrassing the boys with another all-girl trifecta in the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap last Saturday. Not content with smashing the males in nine of the 17 races
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Working mum Sandra Casey joined the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club this year never expecting to actually win a race. She’s played quality tennis and rides a bike but only joined the running club at the urgings of fellow member Bridie Scollary and because her two boys Jacob and Logan, once they had a taste of
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It’s taken two years, 30 races and an astonishing back-to-back win but male athletes with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club finally cracked it for a one, two, three finish in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Females have been dominant, winning 17 of the 30 and landing a host of “quinellas”
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