The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.
Based at Wangaratta, Victoria, trainer Russell Green has often raced his team at meetings in western New South Wales and on Saturday he won the 1,700 metres DJW & Wells Cobar Picnic Cup with Lord Percy.
Starting the $8 outsider in the Cup, Lord Percy (ridden by Zara Lewis) took the lead from Outback Cod and in the straight fought off the challenge from Coastal Groove (Leandro Ribeiro, $2.30) and Joshua (Todd Bailey, $2 favourite).
Blackhill Kitty is entitled to be early favourite for the $50,000 Picnic Champions Series Final at Dubbo in September after winning at Cobar on Saturday, and finishing on top of the point score qualifying ladder for the Final.
From near last in the 1,400 metres Nutrien Russell Trophy Handicap, Blackhill Kitty (Leandro Ribeiro, $3.20 favourite) reeled in the leader Loud (Ricky Blewitt, $4.20) to win by a length with Different Road (Paul Zerafa, $10) in third place.
Horses trained at Tumbarumba by Mont Waters hold track records at several venues and it was another record when Cassimir ($4), ridden by Mont’s daughter Emily Waters, came from midfield to beat the leader Spirit Lake (Bessie Dimery, $3 favourite) and Obsessive Nature (Ashley Boyd, $4.60) in the 1,000 metres Cynend Building & Construction Trophy Handicap.
Widely travelled Forbes trainer Bill Hayes, who has had starters from King Island, Tasmania to outback NSW over the past seven months, won the 1,000 metres Cobar Steel Class B Handicap with Rubicon River.
Parked behind the leaders turning for home, Rubicon River (Ashley Boyd, $6) finished best to beat Spotted (Ricky Blewitt, $3 favourite) and Savvy Statement (Emily Waters, $4.40)
Owned by Andy Barrow and family from Gunnedah and trained at Gilgandra by Kieren Hazelton, Ransom’s Girl (Ricky Blewitt, $2.10 favourite) won the 1,000 metres WEIR Minerals Maiden Plate while the Ray Hartley, Tamworth-trained Point To Prove ($2.20 favourite) won the 1,400 metres Sullivans Mining & Industrial Class B Handicap.—Colin Hodges
Dear editor In reply to the poignant letters to the editor in The Cobar Weekly November 12, 2025 edition, I would like to put forward my reasons why the Town Hall should not remain. In reference to Cobar Shire Council’s Masterplan put forward in May 2024, one can see how […]
Cobar High School’s (CHS) Under 14s girls netball team wrote themselves into the school’s history books last week when they won the Ronnie Gibbs Netball Gala Day in Bourke last Wednesday. The team was outstanding, going through the entire day undefeated and claiming the grand final win with a 10–2 […]
Cobar Parkrun celebrated a big milestone (with cake) on Saturday holding its 300th event which welcomed a group of 16 locals and visitors to walk, jog or run 5km around the Newey Reserve. Wellington visitor, Leon Richardson, set a cracking time of 17 minutes, 31 seconds (just outside Rabi Phuyal’s […]
