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Saturday, April 19, 2025

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Saturday, April 19

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All set for Cup

THE cluBarham Kerang Cup is where all the big names gather. Because it’s the Cup everyone wants to win. Including dual Melbourne Cup trainer Sheila Laxon, whose horse Mr Xen took out the 2007 race. Or in 2024 when the powerful Corstens stable came to...

18 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

Heaven sent win as Coffey betters favourite

IT wasn’t just a heaven sent opportunity at the Geelong races on Saturday, it was also a case of classic Coffey. In the $27,000 Henry Longfellow at Rosemont Stud Plate, the superstar Swan Hill jockey Harry Coffey climbed aboard the three-year-old...

15 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

It’s Caulfield Coffey with another win

FORGET the name Harry when it comes to racing, Swan Hill’s star jockey is fast becoming known as Caulfield Coffey after he racked up another double on his favourite metropolitan track at the weekend. This season, nine of his 16 metro winners have...

08 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

Home track hustle for McEvoy stable

THE locals really had to hustle to get some success on their home track on Friday. And in the end the only glimmer of success came in the fourth on the card – the $27,000 Ultimate Hotel Maiden Plate over 1200m. When the super hot hoop Harry Coffey...

07 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

Coffey sneaks through gap on Musgrave

A SIX horse race, an odds-on favourite, and Harry Coffey saddled up on 12/1 shot Musgrave over the classic mile at Ballarat on Wednesday. What could go wrong?Well, if you were the favourite, apparently just about everything. Because despite having the...

04 Apr 2025
Horse Racing

Ainsworth family in clean sweep

THE Ainsworth family are such regular visitors to Swan Hill, it is almost their home track, with the family securing a unique feat on Tuesday night. The fifth race of the evening - the 2024 Julie Douglas Trainer of the Year Trotters Handicap - became...

29 Mar 2025
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Coffey fires Dillinger in Ballarat

THERE was a Swan Hill racing showdown in Ballarat this week as star local jockey Harry Coffey took on star local trainer Nathan Hobson in the $27,000 Hygain Winner’s Choice Handicap. A small field of seven jumped in Tuesday’s race, with Dillinger...

28 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Coffey targets William Reid Stakes

SWAN Hill jockey Harry Coffey is heading into the William Reid Stakes meeting at Moonee Valley this Saturday smack in the middle of a seriously purple patch. On Tuesday, at the Bendigo races he came home with a double, then backed that up at Sandown...

21 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Locals blow visitors away

SWAN Hill trainers and jockeys went bang at their home track on Sunday, picking up four of the eight races on the card, with doubles to Nathan Hobson and Harry Coffey. Austy Coffey shared a win with his son and then was part two of a quinella with...

18 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Coffey falls for the Cupid

YOU can understand why Harry Coffey might be slightly smitten with a horse called Cupid’s Conquest. Because together they conquered the $27,000 Harvey Norman Ararat Plate over 2200m and a three-way duel in the shadow of the post. Coffey...

08 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Coffey & Co Scandalous success

HARRY Coffey’s hot streak – starting with those four wins at Caulfield – kept right on rolling along at Kyneton on Thursday. Even better, he spread the love throughout his family, riding his father Austy’s Olivia’s Scandal to...

04 Mar 2025
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Try your luck at St Pat’s Cup

THE Swan Hill Jockey Club is preparing to host its annual St Pat’s Cup on Sunday, March 16. In celebration of St Patrick’s Day, the event it expected to draw large crowds with its combination of horse racing and family friendly activities. The event...

03 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

No fussin’ way this horse could win at start

NO Fuss. No muss. No way. Absolutely no way – horses that miss the jump by four lengths in a 1300m dash don’t win. Except in the movies. Especially when they don’t even jump. Instead Harry Coffey’s No Fuss in the $55,000 Sportsbet Feed Handicap...

28 Feb 2025
Sport

Kerang’s McNeil orbits to victory

THE last thing you want for the last race of the night is a horse with a seriously well-earned reputation for going nuclear the minute you slip a saddle on his back. So there was no shortage of surprise all round at Moonee Valley on Friday night when...

25 Feb 2025
Horse Racing

Coffey back in winning form

IF Harry Coffey was ever going to produce perfection where else would he do it but Caulfield?And on Saturday he delivered. The Swan Hill jockey, who concedes 2025 has been a bit of a lean time, was booked for just four rides on Orr Stakes Day and he...

11 Feb 2025
Sport

Record night at Trots with Ultimate Vinnie

IT was anything but a quiet Sunday night as the Swan Hill Trotting Club held its third meeting of 2025, with a new track record mile rate and an abandoned race highlighting the highs and lows of the sport. The highlight was without question the...

10 Feb 2025
Sport

Magic Matty wins for Watson

A PATIENT drive and charge down the sprint lane was enough to secure Merbein driver Kathy Watson this year’s Kiel Tiling Blue Pearl Classic at the Swan Hill Trotting Club’s meeting on Sunday night. Watson, along with trainer-husband Luke...

21 Jan 2025