Matheo ripped into it after that and parred most of the rest. Mr Buggy crashed again on the 13^th and is looking to swap his sticks for a set of bowls.

Mick Beetson 31 points finished second on a count-back and he like Rex Vane collected  a swag of balls for their jackpot

NTPs. Five die-hard golfers played in Sundays frigid conditions and Deb Matheson was way too good with 35 points. Her back nine was a ripper scoring 21 points, miles better than Sam Keating who managed 31 points.

No N.T.P winners. The weeks best score was by Jenny Holmes 39 points in the mid-week comp. Jenny is perhaps our oldest playing member well into the 70s she still has a spring in her step. Tex 34 points was runner up and Di Donald the pin winner.

For the veteran golfers the Nyngan game is Thursday, June 28 with a 9am start.

Golf next weekend is a Stableford on Saturday and a stroke on Sunday. Badge draw is for $1400, the jackpot has lept up to $584. Viv Pateman was the unsuccessful putter last week.

Bourke Outback Challenge: Well done to the 5/6 footballers who travelled to Bourke for the challenge. All students showed great sportsmanship and teamwork.

Cross Country: Deontai, Mia, Ava, Chloe M, Shania, Claire P and Caitlin went to the Western Regional Cross Country. They all did the course, trying their best.

Polding Rugby Union Trials

Congratulations to Gus O’Neill and Jeremy Holmes who have been selected to represent the Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese in the Polding Rugby Union Trials which will be held in Forbes on Monday, July 2.

Making it two wins for the week,the Kylie Kennedy,Narromine trained Zaphod carried the 66 kgs top weight to a game win on Saturday in the 1850 metres Bligh Picnic Cup at Mudgee.

At the previous outing Zaphod had won over 1800 metres at Gulgong and is now one of the favoured candidates for the $50,000 Picnic Championship Final at Dubbo in December.

Alan Barton who won the 2017 Bligh Picnic Cup on Tiger’s Story,gave Zaphod a nice run behind Bathurstian on Saturday before issuing a challenge at the top of the straight.

Zaphod ($1.90 favourite) then held on to win by a length from Didyahearme (Michael Gray, $9) with Bathurstian (Ricky Blewitt, $2.60) a battling third.

Kylie Kennedy and Ricky Blewitt had earlier won with Suman The Yak ($2.70) while the first legs of a winning treble for Ricky Blewitt were the the Gayna Williams trained pair Ennazus ( $1.50 to 1.30 favourite) and Woodbine Miss ($1.90 fav.).

First up from a spell,Yes Zariz won the feature sprint the Collaroy Cup (1000 metres) for 81 year old Gilgandra trainer Bruce Parker.

Well ridden by Michael Gray,Yes Zariz ($3) tracked the three leaders then took a rails run to beat Maximoo (Ricky Blewitt, $2.60 fav.) and Heeby Frenly (Alan Barton, $6).

The other winner was the Craig Weeding,Hawkesbury trained Operose (Michael Wade, $2.40) which led all the way to account for Blinkin Trying (Wesley Boyd, $5) and King Of The Creek (Alan Barton, $3.60) in the Mudgee Machinery- Havilah Handicap,900 metres.

From his Wangaratta stables in Victoria, trainer Russell Green made the long trip to north west New South Wales to win the Geronimo Farm Equipment Walgett Cup (1400 metres) on Saturday with Victorian Crown.

Ridden by Parkes jockey Tiffany Jeffries, Victorian Crown ($4.40) tracked the leaders then finished best to beat Ma Ba Bella (Miki Nakao, $9) and Deceitful Don (Jake Pracey-Holmes, $3).

Russell Green and Tiffany Jeffries have combined for several recent wins including the Cobar Cup with Victorian Crown,a race at Brewarrina with Keep Calm and Carry On while at Walgett they won with Little Queen ($2.30 favourite) and Victorian Crown.

Walgett was a memorable day for Tiffany Jeffries as Vaguely Related ($3 fav) after racing handy to the lead gave her the first leg of a winning treble when beating Knight’s Honour (Miki Nakao, $3.40) and Yankee Roller (Jake Pracey-Holmes, $6) in the Walgett RSL Maiden Plate,900 metres.

-by Colin Hodges