Cobar owned and trained horse, Knee Slapper, looked a bit fidgety going into the starting gate in the final race on the Cobar Picnic Races program on Saturday, the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup over 1,700 metres. Knee Slapper however got the best start (pictured above at far left) and led the field for some time before he was eventually mowed down by Merdeka, who won by two lengths from Hammoon Sweetheart with Knee Slapper holding out for third place. The placing on Saturday elevated Knee Slapper up two spots on the NSW Picnic Racing Association Champion Series standings to No 11 with the top 12 horses eligible to compete in the 1,400m set weight race at Coonamble in October which offers $50,000 prize money.
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The new cool place to hang out is underground at CSA
CSA Mine now has the benefit of a new refrigeration plant that has been designed with Cobar’s hot summer in mind and will ensure cooler temperatures are delivered to underground workers even when the temperature is over 40 degrees outside. CSA Mine Projects Manager, Tom Mackay reports the mine’s new […]
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Roosterettes blow away the Bombshells with a 32-14 win
The Cobar Roosterettes blew away the Binnaway Bombshells on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval winning their Cas-tlereagh League Tag match, 32-14. Cobar’s playmaker Brianna Watson was a standout in the Round 13 match opening the scoring for the Roosterettes early. Watson found a gap in the Binnaway de-fence seven […]
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Guest speaker is Cobar’s first woman to work underground
Guest speakers at this year’s ‘Night to Remember Our Lost Miners’ event include the first woman to work underground at CSA Mine and descendants of the Great Cobar Copper Mine manager, Thomas Longworth. A Night to Remember Our Lost Miners was first introduced to Cobar’s Festival of the Miner’s Ghost […]