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By TESS VAN LUBECK WARREN’S brightest minds gathered at the WaM on Saturday evening to participate in a trivia competition to raise funds in support of the local museum. MC and quizmaster Judy Ridley, in the role she was born to play, kept the crowd on their toes as they were put through their paces for over three hours. Twelve teams were subjected to a variety of brain sizzling questions that spanned the gamut from sport, history, arts, pop culture and local readers of The Warren Star enjoyed a particular advantage with many questions about local people and happenings. After the dust had settled on the fi rst round, three tables were in the lead (three, seven and eight), with Table 12 in last place. Aside from some light jostling, the ladder remained largely unchanged with no major upsets over the subsequent ten rounds. However, the tallying of the visual puzzles that the competitors had been working on throughout the event really shook up the status quo. Table 12 thrived at this brain teaser-style challenge enough to surge out of last position, handing off their wooden spoon to a shaken Table 10 – trounced after having maintained a respectable score all night until hit by that unexpected curveball. Continued page 11
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By TESS VAN LUBECK AND SHARON BONTHUYS THE weather was fi ne and the clothes even finer at the Warren Racecourse last Sunday for the race that stops the central west: the Warren Jockey Club Cotton Cup! The seven-race program and the inaugural Marquee Luncheon attracted good crowds to Warren’s own “Randwick of the West” for a great day of racing, fashion, and frivolous fun. The Cotton Cup is one of four thoroughbred race meetings held annually at the Warren Racecourse. With the track rated a “Soft Five” according to Racing NSW, the Wayne Brown-trained “Ancient Egypt”, ridden by Michael Heagney, stormed home to win the 1600-metre Warren Jockey Club Cotton Cup from “Sea of Flames” ridden by Clayton Gallagher, and “Zounile”, ridden by Zoe Hunt. Some 67 starters competed in the seven-race program, ensuring a great day’s racing. The sold-out Marquee Luncheon, held in partnership with Wincott — Women in Cotton, was also a roar-
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Maree Glasson, Tanya Storer, Melissa Irving, and Narelle Whittaker, at Warren Jockey Club’s Sunday Cotton Cup meet. PHOTO: WARREN STAR.
ing success which organisers described as “a sensational afternoon.” Warren Jockey Club President, Paul Smith couldn’t be happier with the outcome. “We were absolutely thrilled with the day,”
Smith said. “The calibre of horses, jockeys and trainers was fantastic, and all reports from the marquee was that it was a sensational afternoon,” he added. With harvest on everyone’s
mind at the moment, he also expressed his appreciation for the turnout.
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