Previews: Kembla Grange and Albury and other top stories.

• Previews: Kembla Grange and Albury

  

  TAB Market Update: Blue Diamond Stakes1:29Horse racing: Gerard Middleton gives a TAB Market Update on the Blue Diamond Stakes.JAY Ford makes a belated comeback to race riding with a full book of mounts at Kembla Grange on Saturday.The talented jockey hasn’t ridden since being involved in a horror five-race fall in the Mudgee Cup last month that left him with a broken left hand.RANDWICK:SATURDAY BEST WITH RAY & DUFFHOT TIPS:WEEKEND BEST BETSBEAT THE BOOKIE:VALUE BETS“It’s been six weeks since..

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• Colvin stable hope for a change of fortune

  

  Wagga trainer Gary Colvin hoping for a winner at Albury.READY TO GO: Emily Smith with Miss Belle Geddes at Gary Colvin's stables ahead of her debut at Albury on Saturday. Picture: Laura HardwickLUCK in running has not been on Wagga trainer Gary Colvin’s side of late but he is hoping for a change of luck at Albury on Saturday.Stable newcomer Misty Lights heads Colvin’s team and she will contest the Commercial Club Zodiac Lounge Benchmark 55 Handicap (1600m).The four-year-old mare has only had two..

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• A family affair for Foy

  

  You can't keep Anthony Foy away from the Country Cup, even after 30 yearsVETERAN: Anthony Foy attended the first country cup as a junior. This year is the 30th anniversary of the event. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIREWITH the Australian Junior Country Basketball Cup enjoying its 30thanniversary this year, it was only fitting that Anthony Foy was there to celebrate it.The former Albury-Wodonga Bandits player was in attendance for the very first Country Cup all those years ago.Making his cup debut in the..

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• Five art shows not to be missed in Lismore this year

  

  THIS is the last year Lismore Regional Gallery will be housing its exhibitions at the Mollesworth building, with the impending move to a new headquarters planned for 2017.Lismore Regional Gallery announced today its arts program for 2016.Lismore Regional Gallery Director, Brett Adlington, touched on this changes ahead for the organisation in his announcement of the 2016 program."Given the huge year we have in front of us overseeing the new development, there have been a few minor changes to the ..

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• Housing sale paper chase hits the net

  

  A Wodonga business endorses an online reform of a conveyancing system that dates back to the 1850sA NEW online system for settling house sales will help reduce the problems that paperwork can bring, according to a Wodonga conveyancing specialist.Sargeants Wodonga owner Peter O’Connell said Property Exchange Australia, known as PEXA, would also allow sellers to receive their money more quickly.PEXA evolved from a 2010 Council of Australian Governments mandate to deliver a national e-conveyancing ..

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• Devils, Rovers to go head to head

  

  The reigning Albury Wodonga Football Association Cup winners, Wangaratta City Red Devils, will take on Ovens and Murray club Wangaratta Rovers in an ...

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• Supply chains key to gains

  

  Report author, Rabobank senior grains and oilseeds analyst Graydon Chong.Shifting towards a more collaborative grains supply chain will be a “winning strategy” needed to help address the overcapacity that currently exists in Australia’s grain storage network, according to a recently-released industry report.The report, Australian Grains – The Next Hunger Games, by agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank, says the creation of partnerships (through ‘shared value agreements’) along the supply chai..

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• Beardmore Dam levels rise

  

  Filling up: Beardmore Dam has reached 70 per cent capacity following Christmas rainfall.St George cotton growers are rejoicing after rainfall over Christmas increased water levels in Beardmore Dam and happiness to boot.Rob Gracie, Katoota, St George, said a mixture of storm activity and gentle rain over two days was ideal for cotton crops and water catchment.“We collected 140 millimetres around Christmas - we couldn’t have ordered it any better,” he said.“Besides falling perfectly for the cotton..

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• St Kilda 2016 Fixture and List Changes- Can the improving Saints ...

  

  Improving St Kilda have been dealt a relatively kind fixture for season 2016 by the AFL and kick off their campaign when they travel to Adelaide to take on Port Adelaide in Round 1.Of the 2015 finalists, St Kilda face just the Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne on two occasions, while they also enjoy return bouts against Melbourne, Carlton and Essendon.The fixture means that they only play the likes of Hawthorn, West Coast and Fremantle once each and also avoid having to travel to Perth twice...

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Nightrider to run after races .	Firefighters brace as temperatures in Victoria hit the mid-40s .
The Commercial Club Albury is under fire over their treatment of a ... .	More than 500 criminal complaints reported after New Year's eve attacks in Germany .