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Andrew Mole

Elders eyeing a Delta deal

THE Mallee and north-west Victoria’s leading agricultural agency business is about to go through its biggest shake-up in decades. Adelaide-based Elders only needs an ACCC rubber stamp early next year to formalise its $475 million...

19 hours ago

Horse Racing

Double shot of Coffey

WHEN it’s the Ararat Cup and more than half of your seven rides for the day – including joint favourite The Genius in the cup – have just been gutted by scratchings, you tend to want to make every post a winner. Harry Coffey headed...

12 Nov 2024

Horse Racing

Kyneton Cup first for Coffey

HARRY Coffey is fast becoming a cups kleptomaniac. Fair dinkum, give him a saddle, a horse and a cup’s race and get out of the way. Incredibly though, Coffey’s win on New York Hurricane in Wednesday’s $125,000 bet365 Kyneton Cup over...

08 Nov 2024

Horse Racing

Jockey and trainer Coffey getting hotter

WHO can keep track of all these cups of Coffey?Just look at the past two weeks. It started with jockey Harry Coffey’s Caulfield Cup. On Saturday, it was trainer dad Austy’s Wycheproof Cup. And Sunday, Harry was back in the saddle, taking out the...

05 Nov 2024

Horse Racing

Jubilant over Rutilant’s win

KERANG-based trainer Donald Hird has only won a single race this season – but he picked the right one to do that. On Saturday, his six-year-old gelding Rutilant took out the $20,000 Balranald Cup after a well judged ride by veteran NSW...

29 Oct 2024

News

Coffey rides to cup glory

HARRY Coffey has done his home town proud by winning the $5 million Group 1 Caulfield Cup on Saturday. His stunning victory has elevated the country-cups king from Swan Hill to racing royalty. And the story just keeps getting better –...

22 Oct 2024

Horse Racing

Coffey’s cup

IF Harry Coffey came back to racing reality with a thud on Sunday, going around at an Echuca bush meeting for $27,000 purses, I doubt he either heard or felt it. Harry was on such a high after winning Saturday’s $5 million Group 1...

22 Oct 2024

Horse Racing

Woo-hoo for cup winner

FORMER Kerang trainer Jarrod Robinson has just executed the most amazing slow-motion strategy to win the $30,000 Nutrien Ag Manangatang Cup. You Betcha Woo, a 14-start maiden bought online for just $2500, had its first run for him at the...

15 Oct 2024

News

Get set for harvest

IT’S almost time for ready, set, harvest, across the Mallee and there’s a golden opportunity just around the corner to make sure you don’t miss a single grain this season. A Birchip Cropping Group pre-harvest workshop on October 15...

05 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Kerang group dominates prime lamb competition

Andrew Mole THE annual Swan Hill Show Prime Lamb Hoof & Hook competition has unveiled one championship success story, but the final results will not be available until next week. Kerang’s D.I. Gitsham grabbed the prizes in the Heavy Prime and...

27 Sep 2024

Horse Racing

Positive start to Coffey’s spring

HARRY ‘Head Bob’ Coffey has done it again – this time in the $200,000 Group 3 Catanach’s Jewellers MRC Foundation Cup over 2000m at Caulfield on Saturday. And getting Positivity up in the last stride – again – may also have...

25 Sep 2024

Community

Keeping up with the times

AT the age of 66, Peter Barrett has been through enough hardships for several lifetimes. Yet this amazingly upbeat individual is currently planning ways to increase his involvement in helping the Swan Hill branch of Red Cross get “...

08 Sep 2024