2022

First out of the starting gate

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) […]

2022

Happy with Knee Slapper

Co-owners of Knee Slapper, Colin ‘Butch’ Eves and Wayne ‘Wap’ Prisk (who also trains him) were pretty happy with the big seven year old gelding’s performance in the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup feature race on Saturday where he finished third. Despite not having a run for the past […]

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VIEW Club members celebrate two significant birthdays

Several birthdays were acknowledged at Cobar VIEW Club’s August meeting at the Empire Hotel last week. They included Joan Knight, who was pre-sented with flowers at the meeting for her ‘significant’ birthday by club president Enid English. Joan Wells also celebrated a ‘very signifi-cant’ birthday and flowers were delivered to […]

2022

Learning about Landcare

Year 6 students from Cobar Public School (CPS) and St John’s School spent two days last week learning about Landcare including invasive native scrub management, erosion control and measures to prevent erosion on farms, soil types, animal handling and pest management. They also learnt about native plants and introduced species […]

2022

Pigeon racing comes to Cobar and really takes off

Prior to the Cobar Picnic Cup five horse race meeting being held at the Dalton Park Horse Sports Complex on Saturday after-noon, another important “thoroughbred” race took place earlier that morning. The Derby, Blue Band Yearling Breeders Plate race got underway at 8am on Saturday when 593 racing pigeons were […]