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Cunamulla horse takes the Cobar Cup

Queensland raider Al Ash Lad, ridden by Dubbo jockey Georgina McDonnell in a daring race, won the WesTrac Cobar Cup before a very big crowd on Saturday at Cobar. Trained at Cunnamulla by Monique Gavin, Al Ash Lad was taken straight to the lead in the 1,700 metres Cup by […]

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Another hole-in-one for golf legend

Many champion golfers play the game all their life and never get a hole-in-one however during the men’s mid-week golf on Wednesday, Peter ‘China’ Brien scored his 4th! And that was not all! Brien had an excellent day on the course to also win the day with a score of […]

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It was game on at this year’s Darts Open

The 2025 Cobar Darts Open, which offered over $5,000 in prizemoney, was held at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club over the weekend. The event attracted 44 players from around the state (including nine members of the NSW State team) to compete for the prizemoney along with Darts NSW and […]

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Under 6s comp kicks off

The Roosters Under 6s Mixed League Tag players had their first game of the 2025 Mini League season on Sunday morning at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. Zara Shepherd showed blistering pace on the field to record a couple of runaway tries. She also offered support and encouragement to her team […]

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New netball season gets underway

The Cobar Netball 2025 senior and junior competitions got underway on Friday at the Ward Oval netball courts. In the Seniors competition, Smash Ups proved to be too good for Copper City Crushers taking the match 36-25. Smash Ups got off to a good start and had a five goals […]

2025

Burns takes title after three-way play off

A field of 61 professional golfers were joined by 35 amateurs on the Cobar golf course over the weekend to contest the MAC Copper CSA Mine Australian Seniors Sand Greens Championships and Open Amateur Pro-Am event. The Australian PGA Senior Sand Greens Championship title came down to a three-way play […]

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Cobar hosts NSW Sand Greens Championship

The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club hosted the NSW Sand Greens Fourball Championships over the weekend with Billy Brigden from Orange teaming up with James Taylor (Warren) to claim the 2025 title. From the field of 140 golfers, Brigden and Taylor had the best Gross score in the first round […]

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Golfie welcomes bowlers to the greens

The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club’s greens were packed on the weekend with a fun Triples Tournament played on Saturday followed by a President’s Day carnival on Sunday. Saturday’s Triples Tournament had a good field of 42 bowlers with the team of Greg Reko (Hillston) and locals Allan Gardoll and […]

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Little A’s wraps up the season

The Cobar Little A’s 2024 end of season presentations were held at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Sunday night. The overall Club Point Score winners were Pearl Toomey (Girls) and Josh McMillan (Boys) while the encouragement awards went to Max Nardi and Janie Swanepoel. The Point Score and […]

2025

Big crowd for Roosters season launch

The Cobar Roosters Rugby League Club launched their 2025 season at Tom Knight Memorial Oval on Saturday hosting two trial games, pig races and entertainment. The Roosters welcomed the Lake Cargelligo Sharks First Grade and Ladies League Tag teams for preseason matches with the visitors celebrating victories in both games. […]