Winner: Shes Ruby Roo (8). Photo: Stuart McCormick/Harness Racing Victoria
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Kyabram-owned filly Shes Ruby Roo gave a repeat performance of the previous week to claim the $75,000 Victoria Trotters Oaks at Melton on Saturday night.
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The three-year-old daughter of Creatine ran down the favourite Rockinwithattitude the previous week to claim the $50,000 Need For Speed final and on Saturday night again had that trotter’s measure in the $75,000 feature with another last stride win.
Despite an inside back row draw reinsman Greg Sugars was able to get Shes Ruby Roo, trained by his wife Jess Tubbs, off the marker pegs early and, after being caught outside Rockinwithattitude for a while, got cover for the last 1600m and produced her now customary strong finish to nab the favourite at the finishing line.
Shes Ruby Roo banked a winner’s cheque of $42,750 for the win, which has taken her career earnings to $112,000 from 14 starts, which have produced six wins and five thirds.
Kyabram trainers Peter Hall and Graham Lyon are part owners of the filly, along with several prominent local businessmen who are getting a big kick out of her journey, which is only in its infancy at this stage.
Hall said Shes Ruby Roo could now take on the boys in the Victoria Trotters Derby, heats of which will be run at Maryborough this Sunday.
Shes Ruby Roo becomes the second filly with Kyabram owners to win the Victoria Trotters Derby with the Mick Blackmore-prepared Claudys Princess (God bless her) winning the 2014 version of the race, restricted to three-year-old trotting fillies.
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Off-season surgery: Kyabram’s Zac Norris.
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Kyabram Football Club’s best-and-fairest winner Zac Norris last week had surgery on a shoulder injury sustained in the Goulburn Valley League grand final.
The star ruckman suffered a parting of his right shoulder’s AC joint in the second term in the season decider, but played out the game although greatly inconvenienced.
Norris, who is off this week to the United States with friends for a six-week trip, is confident he’ll be back to lead the Bombers’ ruck at the start of next season.
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Kyabram was well-represented in the recent state netball titles.
Ava Pell was in the combined Goulburn Valley and Murray league team, which reached the 15-and-under final under the coaching of Bree Hanslow with assistance from her mother Di.
Abby Waasdorp, Isla Carver and Natasha Dodos were in the 17-and-under side, which won half its games in the tournament.
Top effort: Goulburn's 17-and-under side.
Bright sparks: Goulburn's 15-and-under side.
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Rochester Football Club is starting a rebuild and is being active in the recruiting stakes.
It has lured former player Dillon Williams back to the club after several seasons in the Bendigo league and has also signed a former Bendigo Pioneers player, Baily McGee, a sturdily-built midfielder from Kyneton.
This season’s impressive late inclusion from nearby club Elmore, Dylan Gordon, has also committed for next season.
Meanwhile, former Rochester coach Steve Stroobrants has taken on a joint coaching role of Bendigo league club South Bendigo with former Rochester player Isaiah Miller.
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Deniliquin is loading up for the 2024 Murray Football League season with two of its former AFL players signing.
Not only is former local Sam Lloyd returning to where it started, but is bringing a well-credentialled footy mate, Hamish Shepheard, with him.
Lloyd is a century goal-kicker on two occasions ― in 2010 and 2011 ― in the Murray league before going on to play 57 games with Richmond and 32 with the Western Bulldogs.
A key forward-ruckman, Shepheard is a Sandgroper who was number 34 in the 2008 Rookie Draft and had stints with WAFL club Subiaco and East Perth as well as VFL club Southport and Sandringham.
Multiple Rams premiership coach Gary Parsons, who has stepped back into a joint coaching role with the club, said the signings were fantastic.
‘‘Obviously, something to get fairly excited about.’’
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