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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Meggy Boan cast aside an old enemy and ended a frustrating sequence of second placings when she led yet another all-girl charge to win the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Warned in advance that the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club event would not be easy, the irrepressible Meggy, already a
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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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Reigning club champion Nathaniel Warren made giant strides towards winning a fourth title when he blitzed a field of determined chasers in the three kilometre Chris Blake Championship in the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. The race was made to order for Nathaniel, 25, who was having only his third start for the season and was
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In terms of personal targets, Horsham running coach Rick Price sets himself only modest goals but he achieved at least one of those when he recorded fastest time to win the five kilometre David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. After an outstanding debut season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in
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Ararat council worker Tony Davey had never run more than five kilometres in his life before he turned up in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday with more natural ability than even he imagined and cruised to an effortless win on debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. Tony, 42, received a generous mark from the
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Endurance athlete Susie Ellis warmed up for a cold climate Iron Man event in Switzerland in July when she chased down the tearaway leader to headline an all-girl trifecta in the five kilometre Barham Insurance Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. The globetrotting Susie, who trains relentlessly and travels to some of the world’s most challenging
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The irrepressible Meggy Boan – a rare three time winner in her first season with our club last year – began her 2012 campaign with a stunning win in the five kilometre Dooen Engineering Handicap. When the waif-like Chinese expatriate made her cross country debut with the club in a 5km event last year she
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Horsham’s Daryl Scollary reaped the benefits of a rare early morning training run to narrowly end the three race winning streak of the club’s female runners last Saturday. The “fairer sex” had dominated the cross country season with 11 wins from 17 races and an even dozen looked certain when Justine Tracey held a commanding
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Matilda Iglesias and Sharon Howden added to the misery of male performance this season when they fought out the finish of the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap at Stawell last Saturday. The Iglesias-Howden quinella was the second by females in 2012 but there has also been a brace of “fairer sex” trifectas. The
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