Goondiwindi News
Paralegals take up the slack
Sunday July 19, 2009
KAY RHODES, of law firm Fox and Thomas at Goondiwindi on the NSW and Queensland border, says the firm employs three lawyers.State Border No Bar To Friendship
Friday November 28, 2008
THE commercial hub of a vast agricultural and pastoral region, Goondiwindi sits on the border between NSW and Queensland.Stars And Winners Not All They Seem
Thursday March 13, 2008
There is a beautiful looking two-year-old horse racing in Victoria at the moment called Light Fantastic. He is a soft grey with a blonde mane so white it almost looks bleached. Remember how the Goondiwindi Grey called Gunsynd was the "people's horse"?Record Run For Mitsubishi Pair
Saturday October 22, 2005
MITSUBISHI has claimed a place in Australia's motorsport record books following last weekend's class win in Goondiwindi's final round of the Australian Odd-Road Rally Championship.`blu' Starts On The Road Back
Tuesday December 23, 2003
Goondiwindi trainer Mick Hicks said he had started to doubt if it would ever happen, but his flying galloper Murphy's Blu Boy finally began training this week after a run of misfortune that had threatened to end the horse's short career.Query Over Form Of Murphy's Blu Boy
Saturday August 2, 2003
Goondiwindi flyer Murphy's Blu Boy may miss the San Domenico Stakes at Randwick on Saturday week after the colt struggled in a barrier trial yesterday.Weighty Matters May Rule Murphy's Blu Boy Out Of Grafton Sprint
Monday July 14, 2003
Goondiwindi trainer Mick Hicks is having second thoughts about starting his crack colt Murphy's Blu Boy against the older horses in the $25,000 Kirby Quality Handicap at Grafton on Thursday after the rising three-year-old received 55.5 kilograms for the event.Goondiwindi Produces Another Flier This Time On The Rugby Paddock
Monday March 10, 2003
Gene Fairbanks doesn't have any grey in his hair, but he does boast certain similarities to that other famous sporting product from Goondiwindi.Vet Clears Blu Boy For Slipper Tilt
Tuesday February 18, 2003
Veterinary advice not to spell boom colt Murphy's Blu Boy may result in the ``Goondiwindi Bay" making an autumn appearance in Sydney and re-emerging as a Golden Slipper contender.Perry Hits Sales In Search Of New Talent
Friday February 14, 2003
NEWCASTLE trainer Paul Perry and Goondiwindi's Mick Hicks have not wasted time spending some of the big money they have just earned.Red Ransom Filly Tops The Price List In Highly Successful Melbourne Yearling Sales
Friday February 14, 2003
Sydney-based bloodstock agent David Lamond, the man who engineered the Murphy's Blu Boy sale in Goondiwindi less than a fortnight ago, came away from this week's Melbourne Premier Sale with the highest-priced yearling, a filly by Red Ransom for $260,000.Murphy's Ruled Out Of Slipper
Monday February 10, 2003
Mick Hicks has had better mornings. As the dust finally settled a day after the shock defeat of Hicks's boom colt Murphy's Blu Boy at Caulfield, the news didn't get any better for the likeable trainer from Goondiwindi.From Carats To Carrots For 'murph'
Monday February 10, 2003
Murphy's Blu Boy will head home to Goondiwindi later today after trainer Mick Hicks officially ended the youngster's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes campaign.Blu's Stakes Go To Woe
Sunday February 9, 2003
DRIVING to the races at Caulfield before noon yesterday, the new owners of Murphy's Blu Boy took bets on how much the Goondiwindi Bay would win by.Blu Boy Shuts Down Bookie At His Home Track
Saturday February 8, 2003
Goondiwindi Race Club secretary Graeme Scheu is the town's sole travel agent, and until yesterday was the little community's only bookmaker.Murphy's Blu Boy Inspires A Town Back To The Track
Saturday February 8, 2003
Goondiwindi Race Club secretary Graeme Scheu, who also doubles as the town's travel agent, has been working overtime this week as the groundswell of support for locally trained colt Murphy's Blu Boy reaches fever pitch.Roddy Wins The Race To Buy Into Boom Colt
Tuesday February 4, 2003
It was the personal touch that ultimately convinced Goondiwindi trainer Mick Hicks to allow former Balmain hotelier Brian Roddy to come along for the ride of a lifetime with freakish colt Murphy's Blu Boy.Buyer Beware, Hicks Sets Out Ground Rules For Murphy's Blu Boy
Saturday February 1, 2003
The southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi has been the centre of the racing world this week as its most recently celebrated resident Mick Hicks fields offers for his exciting two-year-old Murphy's Blu Boy.Murphy's The `best Since Luskin Star'
Tuesday January 28, 2003
The small Queensland township of Goondiwindi has another champion to cheer. Some 30 years after Gunsynd made the town famous with his racetrack deeds, which included a Cox Plate win in 1972, two-year-old colt Murphy's Blu Boy arrived as a potential superstar at Caulfield yesterday.The Odds Say It's Blu's Diamond
Tuesday January 28, 2003
The small Queensland township of Goondiwindi has another champion to cheer. Some 30 years after Gunsynd made the town famous with his racetrack deeds, which included a Cox Plate win in 1972, two-year-old colt Murphy's Blu Boy arrived as a potential superstar at Caulfield yesterday.
