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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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Long wait over

SATURDAY’S St Pat’s Outback Cup was a gruelling race, with the winning horse trained by connections that have been chasing the prize for four decades. All races were meant to be run an hour early, beginning at 11am, due to extreme...

26 Mar 2025
News

Hotel all set for recovery day

PATSY and Peter Price were speaking so fast about all the things they have planned for the St Pat’s Recovery Day on Sunday at their Silverton Hotel they were forced to pull off the road and focus - so they didn’t forget anything. And it’s a good...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Coulter & Co behind scenes

IF you think the St Pat’s Day races are “the” community event for Broken Hill, have you stopped for a minute to think about the Coulter community day?It starts with Marc Coulter who, with the exception of a six-year posting to Cobar, has been...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

A welcome from the St Patrick’s Race Club president

ON behalf of the St Patrick’s Race Club, I welcome locals and visitors alike to our 60th race meeting, our special anniversary year where we celebrate all that has gone before us and hopefully provide an event to remember. What started from humble...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

So much going on, and not just on race day!

THE annual St Pat’s race day is much, much more than that - just ask club president Andrew Schmidt. The Cup might be run on Saturday, but the greyhounds will be on the track the day after. To make entries for the big day even more attractive, Mr...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

A tough game back in the day

RACING superstar Rain Lover won a “whopping” $188,100 in his unparalleled track career. Which included back-to-back Melbourne Cups and an incredible swag of Group 1s, other cups, derbies and blue-ribbon crowns such as the Mackinnon and Underwood...

14 Mar 2025
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Hobson wouldn’t miss meet

SWAN Hill trainer Nathan Hobson, a dual St Pat’s Day cup winner, is planning to bring a truckload of horses to this year’s meeting. Again. The high-profile Victorian country trainer has been heading northwest almost every year since 2016 - he was...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Club stalwart here in spirit

IF Broken Hill’s St Pat’s Day is looking for a saint of its own there’s pretty well only one choice - John ‘Poppy Jack’ Rogers. He isn’t just one of the club’s volunteers, Poppy Jack is the benchmark by which all others are...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Young trainer living the dream

EMILY Tremelling might only have one horse in work, but she’s hoping her fledgling career as a trainer means she will be able to saddle up and head (most likely) south to really make her mark in the racing industry. The 28-year-old is currently...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Marg’s legacy of making great things happen

AFTER a very presidential quarter of a century at the helm of the St Pat’s Day Racing Club, Marg Corradini could be forgiven for looking forward to a backseat for a few years. But the tireless worker just can’t quite give it up yet and is still...

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

On a hot streak

THIS year’s St Patrick’s Day races will hardly be Mick Wayman’s first rodeo, as it were. The veteran of more than half a century in the racing business, the Broken Hill trainer took out the $25,000 Clubs NSW Outback Cup at the 2023 St Pat’s...

14 Mar 2025
News

Sixties inspired getups encouraged for this year’s fashion on the fields

AS part of the 60th anniversary of the Broken Hill St Patrick’s Races, a new fashion category, ‘best dressed 1960s inspired outfit’ has been added to the Fashions On The Field competition, to be judged by the 1969 Miss Teenager winner Judi...

14 Mar 2025
News

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of St Pat’s

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of St Pat’s Day in Broken Hill are these photos from the St Pat’s races between 1965 and 1970. Pictures: Supplied/Broken Hill Historic Society

14 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

Trotts hobbled

BROKEN Hill’s Carnival of Cups has been cancelled with a small hope that it could run in June. The annual Friday night event that kicks of the St Pat’s Racing weekend was cancelled during the week despite 58 horses nominating. Harness Racing Broken...

14 Mar 2025
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St Pats preparations underway

PREPARATIONS for St Pat’s Day races are well underway, with Club President Andrew Schmidt saying the racing committee are busy finalising plans for the big event next weekend.“We started off with 40 picnic tables and went to 80,” Mr Schmidt...

07 Mar 2025
Horse Racing

St Pats races team chomping at the bit!

ST Patrick’s Day is shaping up to be one of the biggest in history this year, with celebrations of the 60th anniversary meeting of the Broken Hill Bank St Pats race meeting ready to jump from the gates. The Club’s Argent Street headquarters opened...

21 Feb 2025
Horse Racing

Trots season canned

THE planned harness racing season is finished in Broken Hill for 2025 but there’s still hopes a race meet might be held on the St Pat’s weekend. President of the Broken Hill Harness Racing Club, Michael Honson said it looks like the bulk season will...

24 Jan 2025