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2024 NSW Picnic Champion Series

By Mark Brassel

NSW Picnic Champion Series Leader Board (as at 1st December 2023)

The highly successful The Championships theme spread to the NSW picnic racing arena in September 2016 with the inaugural NSW Picnic Champion Series first kicking off at Harden picnics, providing first points for the series.

History
The first Picnic Champion Series Final was held on Dubbo Gold Cup Day (September 2017) with Racing NSW providing $50,000 in prizemoney; the race being won by Security Code ridden by Maddison Wright and trained by Rodney Robb.

Inzaghi (Leandro Ribeiro) wins the 2023 NSW Picnic Champion Series Final at Coonamble. Image by Janian McMillan (Racing Photography)

2018 - Rodney Robb made it the perfect score when his galloper Austin (Mollie Partridge) bolted in with the Final, scoring by a widening margin of just under five lengths.

2019 - It was trainer Mark Ward's Gadfly scoring with Brent Evans aboard - the horse having won three picnics races during the year including the Noorama Cup (Qld) and the Duck Creek Picnic Cup, as well as the NSW Picnic Champion Series Final.

2020 - Military Bay and Ashley Boyd raced away with the Final for Scone-based trainer Mark Schmetzer, scoring by nearly three lengths from Another Plan and the favourite, Rogue Runner.

2021 - Dubbo trainer Brett Robb combined with jockey Brent Evans when On A Promise outclassed the opposition to win by nearly four lengths.

2022 - Hemsted took out the '22 edition when he powered home to score for Leandro Ribeiro and trainer Connie Greig.

2023 - Leandro Ribeiro was successful for the second successive time when Inzaghi raced away, again for the Greig stable, to score at Coonamble.

"We are pleased to be supporting this concept and by staging a $50,000 event on a big day such as the Dubbo Gold Cup program will give these riders and horses plenty of exposure," said Racing NSW CEO, Peter V'landys AM.

The idea of the NSW Picnic Champion Series was hatched by Deidre Adam, secretary of the NSW Picnic Racing Association, and Craig Tyack, president of Tullibigeal Picnic Race Club.

“The Series offers something worthwhile to picnic jockeys and trainers and is the first picnic TAB race in New South Wales,” Deidre Adam said. “The first couple of Series generated plenty of interest and has already helped improve horse attendance at our picnic race meetings.

"Instead of the qualifying heats in the Country and Provincial Championships, picnic horses will gain points at every picnic race meeting in which they compete."

To qualify for the NSW Picnic Champion Series Final, horses acquire points for every picnic race meeting they attend in NSW and the highest-ranked horses at the end of the 12 months are then eligible to nominate for the NSW Picnic Champion Series Final. All horses except Maidens are eligible to qualify (Clubs must be affiliated with the NSW Picnic Racing Association and use Approved Riders).

NSW Picnic Champion Series Leader Board (as at 1st December 2023)

LATEST NSW PICNIC CHAMPION SERIES NEWS

• California August Joins Leaders In NSW Picnic Champion Series (31 October 2023)

• Merdeka Current Leader In The NSW Picnic Champion Series (18 October 2023)

HONOUR ROLL

Year Horse Jockey Trainer Runner-up Third
2023 INZAGHI Leandro Ribeiro Connie Greig Sons Of Bourke Madison Point
2022 HEMSTED Leandro Ribeiro Connie Greig Danspur Brooklyn Star
2021 ON A PROMISE Brent Evans Brett Robb Malibu Stacy Opera Tickets
2020 MILTARY BAY Ashley Boyd Mark Schmetzer Another Plan Rogue Runner
2019 GADFLY Brent Evans Mark Ward Free Billy Cooee March
2018 AUSTIN Mollie Partridge Rodney Robb Spinning Dawn Zaphod
2017 SECURITY CODE Maddison Wright Rodney Robb Black Fusion Kinda Tangy
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