KNIGHT Templar is unbeaten at Murwillumbah and the Grafton gelding crusades to continue that winning run when he contests Tuesday’s $22,000 Jujus Open Handicap (1200m). Prepared at Grafton by Jason Reilly the eight-year-old gelding son of Lion Heart has drawn barrier eight in the 10-horse sprint. A winner of 10 races from 64 starts heMore info
Care to Think: SCRATCHED!
CARE To Think’s scratching from Saturday’s $1.3million Kosciuszko (1200m) has left the Tweed River Jockey club and Murwillumbah trainer Matt Dunn with just the one representative in Saturday’s feature country sprint at Royal Randwick. Five-year-old Care To Think, winner of six of his 15 starts and more than $870,000 in prizemoney was the Kosciuszko favouriteMore info
Matt Dunn on Target to Conquer Kosciuszko
TWEED River Jockey Club is hoping two locally trained horses can seize success in Saturday’s $1.3million Kosciuszko (1200m) at Randwick heading into Tuesday’s seven-race TAB meeting at Murwillumbah. The Matt Dunn-trained Care To Think and Snitz will both run in Saturday’s inaugural Kosciuszko, a race for country-trained horses only and a major support race toMore info
Final Judgement Day
JOHN Sullivan is retiring as Northern Rivers Racing Association judge. After 30 years, nine of them at the Clarence River Jockey Club in Grafton and the last 21 as the NRRA judge, the popular racing official is calling it quits. About to turn 71 he has had a long and exact career. One of hisMore info
Be Wined and Dined By The Chef To The Stars
CHEF to the Stars, Nigel Coulson, returns to Murwillumbah’s Tweed River Jockey Club for an A-LA-Carte Dining event later this month. The Tweed River Jockey Club, which enjoyed a bumper Murwillumbah Cup meeting recently doesn’t race again until its October 16 Tallai Country Club Cup Day but serves up a Saturday, September 22 A-La-Carte DinnerMore info
A Charman Life
THERE is an old evergreen tree at Murwillumbah Racecourse. The majestic camphorloral stands beside the Tweed River Jockey Club’s public bar and has been there for a long while. Longer than Bernie Quinn has been Chairman of the TRJC, which is around 44 years. Last Friday the TRJC officially opened the decking around that evergreenMore info
