The Team Teal Campaign is growing and since the beginning of February, NSW reinswomen have raised over $15,000 by just driving winners with $400 being donated for each win to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
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Local Ambassador Jemma Coney picked up $1,000 towards to Team Teal Ovarian Cancer fundraiser with two wins at last week's Tamworth harness meeting and was joined by Elly Chapple who picked up a neat $400 with her win.
The campaign runs until the end of February and as an Ambassador Jemma Coney will be undertaking some extra fund raising so let's get behind her!
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There are seven competitive female reinswomen in the north west at the moment - Coney, Chapple, Madi Young, Sarah Rushbrook, Caitlin McElhinney, Courtney Sutherland and Maddison Simon who are eager to pick up some more cash for the Research Fund and they are all set to go with the next Tamworth harness meeting on Wednesday 17th February.
Last Saturday night also saw the young men feature in the winner's circle and congratulations to Blake Hughes who picked up a driving double for two local stables.
The first win came courtesy of the Neil Kliendienst trained Rolamax in taking out the $8,000 Bearing Accessories Pace by a neck over Neville Shannon (Dean Chapple) and Just Tommy (Sam Ison) 15 metres away third.
Hughes then teamed up with the Tony Missen stables with My Kinda Justus who won the PKF Audit & Assurance Pace.
My Kinda Justus is a new acquisition to the stables and is raced by Tony and his wife Joy Missen and is looking to have a handy future after previously racing in Canberra and the Riverina.
With only 13 race starts the four-year-old Heston Blue Chip mare was having her third race start since joining the stables and produced her first career win.
Sam Ison also picked up a win behind Point Oh Five, which is trained by his father Andy and paid $15, in the PKF Super Pace while Scotty-Jon Welsh was listed as both trainer and driver of Commanche who won the PKF Accountants & Advisers Pace and paying $8 for the win.
The $100,000 Newcastle Mile, to be staged on February 19 is starting to gain momentum.
The winner of the race will gain automatic entry into the Garrard's Million Dollar Miracle Mile at Menangle on March 6 and will be part of the field that will comprise the winner of the Chariots of Fire at Menangle (Feb 20) and the Schweppes and Allied Sprint (Feb 27).
The whisper around the tracks is that Lochinvar Art is heading north to contest the Newcastle Mile after taking out the $500,000 Del-Re National A G Hunter Cup last Saturday night.
Lochinvar Art 's owner is based in the Hunter Valley and it would be nice for the locals to see a little superstar who has had 50 race starts for 28 wins and 19 placings.
His win on last Saturday night saw his share of the prizemoney being $285,000 in the Group 1 race with a mile rate of 1.54.8 for 2760 metres.
The Shepparton based pacer found the front early for trainer-driver David Moran and broke the field open with an extraordinary 53.2sec last 800 metres to win by 6.4 metres
