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Loddon HERALD Vol 5 No 35, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 ISSN 2653-1550
Fans pin flag hopes to stars
Alfie’s on a mission
FOOTBALL fever has its Loddon Valley league finale at Newbridge on Saturday when Bridgewater aims to stop three-time premiers Marong in their tracks. Red and white streamers being waved by Mean Machine fans will blow from the boundary at Riverside Park. Hundreds of Bridgewater’s supporters will be wearing specially-made badges with the faces of their football heroes and members of two netball sides also playing in season deciders. The club had ordered 300 of the badges. “We sold out within minutes of taking orders on Sunday night,” said president Tim Ferguson. READ MORE IN THE SPORTS SECTION OF YOUR LOCAL LODDON HERALD TODAY
ALFIE Coutts, 4, was on a mission at Willera Merino’s on-property ram sale at Serpentine on Friday. Oblivious to frenetic bidding on rams assembled for auction by father Simon, young Alfie wandered through buyers on his way back from the barbecue with a cursory glance for the auctioneer. AUCTION REPORT - PAGE 9
CUP HITS TOWN
STUDENTS covered themselves in cup glory on Tuesday when the greatest trophy in Australian horse racing came to the Loddon. For the second time in two years, the golden Melbourne Cup valued at more than $250,000 was in the region. Bridgewater on Loddon Development had students strutting the recreation reserve oval with hobby horses in graded races while some of their teachers and local residents joined fashions on the field
compered by Loddon Shire’s Inglewood Ward councillor Miki Wilson. Students also lined up in the Memsie Handicap footraces and Jany Clutton used a hat box for sold raffle tickets raising funds for the group. Former BOLD president Shannon Brown, acting as ringmaster for events, said bringing together students from Bridgewater, Inglewood, St Mary’s and Tarnagulla Primary School had been a great part of the day where several hundred people also had their photograph
taken with the famous trophy. A dinner in Bridgewater’s memorial hall on Tuesday night was a sell-out. Bridgewater is among cup tour destinations in the running for a special cup sweep. BOLD has nominated Inglewood and Districts Health Service as its charity to receive any sweep winnings when the cup is raced in November. Two years ago, the cup tour stopped in Boort for two days.
PHOTOS - PAGE 8
Bridgewater’s Mick Balazs with the cup
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