SATURDAY: January 4, 2020: HAWKESBURY horseman Matt Vella has formed a “special” association with wealthy New Zealand businessman and philanthropist Sir Owen Glenn.

MONDAY: June 3, 2019: MATT Vella is an accomplished horse breaker and pre-trainer.

A decade of planning and astute preparation came to fruition on an unusually warm Winter's morning at Hawkesbury, with the first hoof prints embedded in the Polytrack training surface. 

SUNDAY: July 23, 2017: THE tiny township of Carinda, 70km south-west of Walgett, races once a year in July on a dirt track.