Narrabri Harness Racing Club will host its Carnival of Cups meeting on Easter Monday and if the results from last week's meeting staged by the club are any indication - it will be big!
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Feature races on the program for the Carnival of Cups meeting will be the Narrabri Cup, Santos Cup Final and the John Dean Memorial.
The Weidemann stables picked up two winners last meeting with Miss Catalina and Too Good For You and will feature at the Monday meeting.
The Aaron Goadsby and Mark Jones training establishment produced another winner in A Gift From Heaven with the three-year-old gelding having only two career starts for two wins after a win at Maitland before travelling to Narrabri and driven by Maitland reinsman Guy Chapple.
Bathurst trainer Chris Frisby will be making a return trip to Narrabri to contest a Final after his pacer Uncle Jord won the J & H Windscreen/Kelly's Car Sales Heat 2 with a winning margin of 51.3 metres!
Moonbi trainer and reinsman Dean Chapple picked up another win with Espee Supreme.
The Narrabri local trainers also had success with the Peter Shepherdson trained Kid Montana having a win in the feature for the meeting the Wee Waa Cup with Tamworth reinsman Scotty-Jon Welsh in control of the reins.
The Jarred Hetherington trained Tap It In produced a win in the Leading Appliances/Logan & Co Furniture & Bedding Heat 3 and will be looking to a Final's run on Monday.
Former Tamworth reinsman and now Hunter Valley based Tom Ison had the winning drive behind Tap It In with Ison securing his 100th career win as a reinsman.
The question on every one's lips is "Who was that calling the races at Narrabri last Sunday?"
With a mix up in bookings there was no race caller at the Narrabri meeting - that was until 12-year-old Jack Chapple put his hand up to undertake the task at hand and did a magnificent job.
Compliments are flowing from far and wide for the terrific job by Jack at his first-time race calling.
With no time to practice it was straight into the race calling with Jack not missing a beat in his description with the flow of the race, as well as drivers and horse names being clear and concise.
Jack is the son of Moonbi harness identities Dean and Julie Chapple.
"He handled it well" said a very proud father, Dean Chapple "I never thought I would be hearing Jack call a race that I won"
Dean Chapple won on the day with Esspe Supreme.
Jack Chapple is part of the Tamworth Mini Trots team, who were also competing at the Narrabri meeting with Jack taking three drives throughout the afternoon.
As an added bonus to the Chapple family, eldest daughter Elly achieved her 20 trial drives at the meeting and will now join her father in competition once her reins licence arrives from Harness Racing NSW.
The 2019 NSW Mini Trot Championships will be staged at Paceway Tamworth over the Easter weekend.
