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08 Mar 10 | Group One winning champion thoroughbred Sniper’s Bullet is lucky to be safe in his Mudgee paddock after the gelding broke loose while being loaded onto a float at Warwick Farm racecourse on Friday morning.
24 Feb 10 | Thirteen months after Prinsipe gave Brett Thompson his first winner as a trainer, the gelding has done it again, this time for Brett’s son Ben.
17 Feb 10 | Tracey Bartley yesterday announced exclusively to the Mudgee Guardian that he has engaged a new rider for stable champion Sniper’s Bullet.
17 Feb 10 | You can’t learn the skills at a university, but horse breakers are entrusted with the most expensive, flighty young thoroughbreds and their job is to have them ready for trainers to prepare without incident or injury.
15 Feb 10 | Mudgee trainer Tracey Bartley was all smiles at Mooney Valley on Saturday after stable star Sniper’s Bullet ran a sensational third in the William Reid Stakes on Saturday.
10 Jan 10 | Persistence paid off for the large group of owners who race chestnut mare Sanglia ($3.50 fav) who broke through for her first win at Mudgee on Saturday.
16 Dec 09 | Hugh Bowman’s Hong Kong Mile experience ended up being a disappointing one as he finished second-last in the history making 1600m event.
06 Dec 09 | South African jockey S’manga Khumalo may not have been a winner on Mudgee Cup Day, but won plenty of admirers with his strong riding style.
06 Dec 09 | Six-year-old Sniper’s Bullet won his third Group One feature and his second in as many weeks when Damien Oliver steered him to an emphatic victory in the Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot.
06 Dec 09 | A syndicate of owners headed by Ben Webb of Dubbo celebrated well into the night on Friday after their now bargain buy Tora Tora Tora ($8.00) took out the Mudgee Cup (1600m).
04 Dec 09 | Today’s Robert Oatley Vineyards 2009 Mudgee Cup looks wide open and a battle between the bold front runner Ausbred King and horses that will finish off their races strongly.
02 Dec 09 | African jockey Simanga Khumalo got his first taste of Australian racing when he saddled Tracey Bartley-trained Sanglia at track work at Mudgee Race Club on Monday morning.
The 24-year-old said he could not wait for Oatley Wines Mudgee Cup day.
When Khumalo rides his first race on Friday he will become the first jockey of African origin to ride in a professional race in Australia.
02 Dec 09 | Group 10’s proposed plan to centralised the grand final at the same location every year has been quashed - well at least for the 2010 season.
30 Nov 09 | Mudgee trainer Brett Thompson will take Hewentwhoosh back to Sydney in search of a healthy pay day after winning at Towac Park yesterday.
30 Nov 09 | Simanga Khumalo was plucked out of a South African class room and the tape was produced. Jockeys for thoroughbreds were required, Africans now had the opportunity and the youngster made correct weight. A jockey it would be.
25 Nov 09 | African jockey Simanga Khumalo celebrated the approval of his visa to visit Australia and to ride in the 2009 Oatley Wines Mudgee Cup with another long priced winner at leading South African Mid-week track the Vaal last Thursday.
23 Nov 09 | Rylstone born and Mudgee-based trainer Tracey Bartley could not hide his emotions after his star galloper Sniper’s Bullet ($16.60) claimed the $1 million Railway stakes at Ascot in Perth on Saturday.
20 Nov 09 | Star African jockey S’manga Khumalo will be one of the many attractions on the racetrack at the 2009 Oatley Wines Mudgee Cup on Friday week.
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08 Nov 09 | The Mudgee and Tracey Bartley trained Sniper’s Bullet ran fifth in the Group one Emirates Stakes on Saturday as the horse clearly showed it can match it with the best in the country.
08 Nov 09 | He was living out his childhood dream but at the end of the day Hugh Bowman described his first Melbourne Cup ride as “just another race”.
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