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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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