NORTH SYDNEY SPRINT CLASSIC 6.30 pm Friday 12 December 2008 North Sydney Oval Miller Street, North Sydney $30,000 PRIZEMONEY $10,000 – $10,000 – $10,000 – Norths Leagues Club Ken Irvine Gift – 110 m North Sydney Womens Gift – 110 m URM Rugby Leagues Fastest Man over 100 yards PROGRAM SCHEDULE Event 1 6.30 pm North Sydney Womens Gift 110 m Heats Event 2 6.50 pm North Sydney Leagues Club Ken Irvine Mens Gift 110 m Heats Event 3 7.45 pm North Sydney Womens Gift 110 m Semifinals Event 4 8.00 pm North Sydney Leagues Club Ken Irvine Mens Gift 110 m Semifinals FINALS Event 5 8.30 pm NORTH SYDNEY WOMENS GIFT – 110 m Presentation Event 6 8.40 pm URM RUGBY LEAGUES FASTEST MAN – 100 yards $10000 NORTHS LEAGUES CLUB KEN IRVINE MENS GIFT – 110 m $10000 Event 7 8.50 pm 9.00 pm COMMUNITY MOVIE – Bend It Like Beckham $10000 3 2008 NORTH SYDNEY WOMENS GIFT – 110 m ATHLETES’ HANDICAP MARKS AND PROFILES Names Handicap marks MELISSA BREEN Kambah, ACT SCR LAURA WHALER Heddon Greta LAUREN BODEN, Palmerston, ACT 0.75 m TRISHA GREAVES Louth Park 3.00 m BIANCA WILLIAMS Cessnock CHARLOTTE VAN VEENENDAAL Manly MIKAELA READ Mona Vale JULIA NATION Ngunnawal ACT KRISTY SMITH Engadine 3.25 m ANNA HEASMAN Rutherford LYNETTE MATTINGLEY Bligh Park MEGAN HINES Tingira Heights KENDRA HUBBARD Victoria TARIN NEVIN Woronora RAMONA CASEY Wallalong CATHERINE WILD-TAYLOR Deakin ACT SALLY JAMIESON Victoria 6.25 m MICHELLE SOPER Engadine HEIDI McTERNAN Ourimbah MIKKE FOLEY Brighton Le Sands MELISSA COOK Coogee 2.50 m 3.50 m Details Sensational star 18 year old schoolgirl sprinter ... presently number one Australian 100 m and 200 m sprinter ... better than Gainsford-Taylor and Freeman at the same age. Queanbeyan $7000 Gift winner 2007. Fine young rising Newcastle sprinter ... finalist in National 100 m and 2007 $6000 Blacktown Gift winner Winner of National 400 m hurdles on 3 occasions. Also won 2008 $7000 Queanbeyan Gift and $2000 Blacktown BackMarkers Handicap. Top 400 m runner ... number 3 in Australia. Winner of Devonport 200 m Handicap, Macksville and Port Macquarie Gifts. Very promising sprinter who has made many finals and won the Adelaide Bay Sheffield Back-Markers Handicap. Big money winner last Saturday ... won $7000 Blacktown Gift and $1300 70 m Sprint Handicap ... a rising star. 4.00 m Promising young sprinter having one of her first pro runs. 6.00 m 7.00 m Former national junior 100 m finalist originally from Albury, now in Canberra training with the Beckenham stable. Former Australian Beach Sprint Champion who has won several Gifts including Temora and Narrandera. In doubt – injury. Runner just commenced and was runner-up at Macksville ... has the ability to win some big races. Former South Australian ... winner of Bay Sheffield Womens Gift Promising runner close to a Gift win. 7.50 m Victorian sprinter who has won good races in Victoria. 7.75 m Young 400 m hurdles sprinter with only a few pro runs experience. Experienced pro runner who has won many Womens Gifts and Skins races. Canberra schoolgirl runner up in the Queanbeyan Gift ... a very good handicap runner. Runner-up in this year’s $10000 Stawell Womens Gift – almost won the ‘double’ with her brother winning the Stawell Gift. Place-getter in some of Australia’s biggest womens Gifts and North Cronulla beach sprinter. Winner of prestigious Stawell Womens 400 m plus several Gifts, now coming back after having twins. Gilgandra Gift winner and place-getter in several other Gifts ... NSWAL Female Sprinter for 2007-2008. Runner experiencing handicap racing for the first time. 6.25 m 6.75 m 8.00 m 8.75 m 10.00 m 12.00 m 13.25 m 14.00 m 14.00 m 4 Athletes’ Handicap Marks and Profiles (continued) Names ADANDA COLE North Lambton CHRYSTAL JONES Little Bay DANIELA DIETZOLD Rose Bay REBECCA FOSTER Woonona SUZ SINCLAIR North Lambton REBECCA WRIGHT Queensland ANNA WRIGHT Queensland KRISTINA BUCHANAN Queensland Handicap marks Details 14.50 m Consistent front-marker and Lambton Gift winner. 14.50 m New runner on a learning curve in handicap racing. 15.00 m 15.50 m Ran very well at Blacktown last Saturday when coming 3rd in rich $7000 Blacktown Gift. Veteran runner due for a win. 16.50 m Front-marker who has won the Queanbeyan Gift. WH WH WH Insufficient form information to allocate marks. 5 2008 NORTH SYDNEY LEAGUES CLUB KEN IRVINE GIFT – 110 m ATHLETES’ HANDICAP MARKS AND PROFILES Names Handicap marks JOSH ROSS Victoria SCR JACOB GROTH Homebush ALI BANGURA Belmore SAM JAMIESON Victoria ROBERT MARKS Mt Annan BANGALIE KIETA Holroyd THOMAS SCOTT Fletcher 1.50 m IAIN MacFARLANE Coogee GARY FINEGAN Queensland KEIRAN NOONAN Pennant Hills RICHARD HANKIN Elizabeth Bay LAMIN TUCKER Marrickville JOHN JAKEMAN O’Connor ACT CUTHBERT RICHARDSON Canberra City ACT ARTHUR MUZELENGA Barden Ridge BRANDAN COLE Bruce ACT 3.75 m BEN SOUTHWELL Padstow ALBERT KOBBA Lakemba CALLUM TAYLOR Queensland SHAUN FLETCHER Elermore Vale JARYD COWLEY Bangor BRENDAN MATTHEWS Kaleen ACT 6.00 m HARRY GIDDY Putney 6.50 m 1.75 m 2.00 m 2.75 m 3.25 m 3.25 m 4.00 m 4.25 m 5.00 m 5.25 m 5.50 m 5.75 m 5.75 m 5.75 m 6.00 m 6.25 m 6.25 m 6.50 m 6.50 m Details Four-time National 100 metres Champion and Athens Olympian in 100 m. Twice Stawell Gift winner and only Australian to have won from the ‘Scratch’ mark. Runner-up in 2008 National 100 m Championships and winner of the $12000 2007 Blacktown Gift. Former Sierra Leone representative. Won the 120 m Lithgow Flash Gift for men in 2008 worth $10000. This year’s Stawell Gift winner ... a very fine sprinter. Outstanding young NSW sprinter having his first NSW pro run ... ran in Stawell Gift where he was an early favourite. Former Sierra Leone athlete new to pro sprinting ... performed well at Blacktown last week. Experienced pro athlete having won Macksville, Queanbeyan, Latrobe (Tas), Bay Sheffield (SA) and Gilgandra Gifts. Good sprinter ... favourite at the 2007 Stawell Gift but finished in third place in the Final. Good quality sprinter who has trained in the USA. Former nationally ranked sprinter making a comeback to competition. Very promising sprinter ... one of the favourites at the 2008 Stawell Gift ... finished second to Sam Jamieson. A very quick starter from the blocks who should win a big Gift fairly soon. Winner of the Gold Coast Gift and runner-up in several other rich Gifts ... a very good, consistent performer. Runner new to pro ranks; won the Novice Handicap 110 m at Blacktown last Saturday. Winner of Temora, Botany Bay Plate, Woonona Bulli and Ararat Gifts ... a good, consistent sprinter. Winner of last four National 400 m Hurdles Championships and represented Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Young sprinter with talent ... has only had a few starts. Has only competed a few times in pro running but has won National 400 m Championships in Sierra Leone. A veteran these days, but at his best ran 46 secs for the 400 m and represented his native New Zealand. Young nationally ranked long jumper from Newcastle who has made the final of the Stawell Gift. Outstanding junior 400 m sprinter having his first season with the pros. Prolific 17 year old Gift winner ... has won the Temora and Queanbeyan Gifts for a total of about $13000 prizemoney ... won 400 m at Pacific Schools Games. Young novice runner having his first run. 6 Athletes’ Handicap Marks and Profiles (continued) Names Handicap marks Details BRENDON WATT Weetangera ACT MICHAEL DUNNE Epping MONTY SIMES Rutherford MATT HARGREAVES Victoria PAUL CUMMINGS Kulnura PATRICK ELLIOTT Queanbeyan KANE THOMPSON Beacon Hill STEPHEN SHEPPARD Flynn ACT ALEX CAREW Victoria JESSE MATTHEWS Kaleen ACT OLIVER WURM Victoria EDWARD WARE Eastlakes MATT PILKINGTON Camperdown PATRICK HAMMOND Paddington SPENCER COX Wallsend LUKE STORTA Ngunnawal ACT PETER McGRORY Blackett STEPHEN BLACKER Matraville 6.50 m NICK MALTBY Spit Junction MATT JULLIENNE Randwick JEFFERSON TAYLOR Randwick DAMIEN McTERNAN Ourimbah MICHAEL JONES Little Bay DANIEL SAMMUT Ourimbah LEE CLARK Cardiff MICHAEL GIARDINA Maroubra ANDREW PIRIE Artarmon 9.25 m Has only had a few starts with limited success so far but has good ability over the 100 m. Best performance a 2nd in the 2005 Queanbeyan Gift ... due for another good run. Has run in NSW for a couple of seasons but yet to taste success. This year’s form runner in the NSWAL. Runner-up at Macksville and winner of Mike Cleary and Blacktown Gifts ... has won about $11000. Harder mark here. Has had some starts with the NSWAL but still a novice. 9.25 m Only had a few starts with NSWAL ... still a novice. 9.50 m Very fit Randwick sprinter yet to taste success. 9.75 m Veteran runner who has made many Gift finals ... winner of Gilgandra Gift. Young promising sprinter who commenced with NSWAL earlier this year ... still a novice. Veteran runner ... has won prestigious rich Victorian Gifts, the Maryborough and Keilor Gifts. Fit veteran runner from Newcastle who has made many finals and won several Stawell Back-Markers Handicaps. Runner making a come-back to the NSWAL. 6.50 m 6.75 m 7.00 m 7.00 m 7.00 m 7.00 m 7.00 m 7.25 m 7.25 m 7.25 m 7.50 m 7.50 m 7.75 m 8.25 m 8.50 m 8.50 m 8.50 m 10.00 m 10.00 m 10.25 m 10.25 m 10.50 m Former national champion schoolboy with very good talent ... still a novice runner. Novice runner new to pro running. Talented former St Josephs College schoolboy sprinter ... place-getter in the Mike Cleary Wentworth Park Gift. Very talented, consistent Victorian sprinter ... won Macksville Gift and placed in $14000 Queanbeyan Gift. Fine young sprinter who won his first Gift at Gilgandra earlier this year. Another good young sprinter and winner of a Blacktown Plate and 70 m Sprint handicap races. Young novice runner having his first run. Place-getter in recent Queanbeyan Novice ... a young sprinter on the rise. Young Victorian runner ... novice in NSW. Winner of the inaugural Lambton Gift 2007 and a good young sprinter. Good Victorian 300 m – 400 m runner who will do well here ... finalist at Blacktown last Saturday. Won the Bill Howard Novice Handicap over 100 m at Stawell this year in his first run ... this is his first NSW start. Veteran runner ... winner of several Gifts including the Temora Golden Gift. Promising runner who is improving after several pro starts. Popular runner who broke through for his first win in the Blacktown 300 m Handicap last Saturday. 7 Athletes’ Handicap Marks and Profiles (continued) Names Handicap marks ROBERT SUAPOPO Padstow DAVID LEE Concord West MATT BECKENHAM Belconnen ACT 11.00 m JASON HARDY Caringbah KEN TELFER Chisholm ACT ADAM SOMERVILLE Bondi Beach DAN SEMMLER Glebe ROB HANNA Connells Point JAY KARUTZ North Ryde DANNY JAMES Minmi KEVIN MATTHEWS Kaleen ACT DARRIN JENKINS Lambton GLENN STEPHENS Victoria DANIEL HARRIS Queensland BEN WILLIS Queensland 12.00 m 11.00 m 11.25 m 12.25 m 12.50 m 13.00 m 13.00 m Details A runner who has won many 70 m and 300 m Handicap events but yet to win a Gift. A form runner knocking on the door of a win ... runner-up at Blacktown last Saturday and will be hard to beat here. Former Sydney Olympian in 400 m Hurdles and now one of Australia’s best sprint-hurdles coaches ... could do well off his mark. A competent sprinter who has made many finals ... getting close to a Gift win. Very fit veteran sprinter ... has won Gilgandra and Birdsville Gifts ... won Vets Handicap at Queanbeyan. Veteran still improving ... goes very well in 300 m and 400 m events. Former South Australian runner yet to taste success in NSW. 14.00 m Former champion NZ 400 m runner ... a veteran these days ... has won several Gifts. Has won the Mike Cleary and Gilgandra Gifts and is NSWAL Male Sprinter for 2007-2008. Veteran runner and Gilgandra Gift winner. 14.00 m ACT Veteran runner who has won several minor handicaps. 14.00 m Veteran Newcastle runner close to a win. 14.00 m WH Veteran Bendigo sprinter who has won big 400 m handicap sprints. Insufficient information WH Insufficient information 13.00 m