August 1, 2013
The prestigious Carrollee Hotel Nanango Cup will be just one of the highlights at Saturday’s Nanango Races.
As well as a six-race card there’ll be a special blessing of the jockeys done by Rev Avriel Green from the Nanango Anglican Parish and the presentation of the Nanango Race Club’s Premiership Awards (awards to the season’s leading jockey, trainer and horse).
There’ll also be the sashing of the new Race Club Ambassador for 2013-14 by Bendigo Bank, and the rugging of the winner of the Carrollee Hotel Nanango Cup by Burtons Shoes.
A plaque will also be unveiled to mark the support by Stanwell and the South Burnett Regional Council for the extensions to the undercover seating area.
The Nanango Cup is one of the South Burnett’s biggest race meetings of the year. Total prize money for the event is $50,000.
The theme is “Winter White and Midnight Black” and patrons who dress to this theme can take part in the hotly contested Moffatdale Ridge Fashions Of The Field competition to win great prizes, including a Marriott Hotel Gold Coast accommodation package and tickets to a Gold Coast Turf Club lunch.
Buses will be running to the races from Kingaroy’s Carrollee Hotel at noon; the Glendon Street Bus Depot at 12:15pm, and the Nanango RSL at 12:30pm. Gates will open at 10:00am.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for pensioners (under-15s are free).
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Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington has urged people to support country racing by attending the Nanango Cup meeting.
“The Nanango Cup is always a great day and this year it coincides with the monthly Nanango country markets. The markets will be held in the morning and people could combine a visit to the markets with the Nanango Cup race meeting in the afternoon,” Mrs Frecklington said.
“This year’s Cup meeting will continue a long tradition of racing in Nanango,” she said.
“The Nanango Race Club traces its origins back to 1859, the same year in which Queensland became a State. People will be able to see part of Nanango Cup history at the meeting, with the Cup from 1869 – won by Pilgrim – on display.”
