Reflections On Wondai
The South Burnett was linked to four of the success stories at last Saturday’s excellent Anzac Day race meeting at Wondai.
The South Burnett was linked to four of the success stories at last Saturday’s excellent Anzac Day race meeting at Wondai.
The countdown is on for the Burrandowan Picnic Races with volunteers and the local community getting ready for their biggest day of the year.
Anzac Day services around the region drew record crowds this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, and so did Wondai’s 42nd Anzac Day race meeting.
The South Burnett Race Club has every reason to be delighted with the numbers for its highly popular Anzac Day program.
The Wondai Race Club will be holding its traditional Anzac Day Race Meeting at the Wondai Racecourse in Cadell Street, Wondai on Saturday.
Place prizemoney picked up by Norma King’s duo Hidden Duck and Flight Command at last Saturday’s Noorama Picnic Race Club red dirt meeting represented the only returns for district stables this past week.
There will be two new features at this year’s Burrandowan Picnic Races – a High Tea served in the historic hall and pre-ordered lunch hampers.
There was the usual spectrum of highlights at Nanango’s popular Easter Saturday meeting
The large number of racegoers who took a punt on the overcast weather conditions to head to Nanango Racecourse for the popular Easter Saturday race meeting emerged winners when the rain failed to develop
Videos of Easter Saturday’s races from the Nanango Race Club’s YouTube channel
With 59 acceptors for its Easter meeting, Nanango Race Club’s participants will easily outnumber Saturday’s other non-TAB fixtures scheduled for Barcaldine (31), Boulia (35), Bowen (44), Einasleigh (46), Flinton (38), Gladstone (30) and Roma (28).
Nanango Race Club’s most popular meeting – the Easter Saturday fixture – is just a week away.
Defending champion Toby Price has thrown down the gauntlet to his competitors after completing a clean sweep of both days of the Australian Off-Road Championship at Kilkivan at the weekend.
Defending champion and four-times winner Toby Price took line honours in Round 1 of the Australian Off-Road Championship raced at Kilkivan on Saturday.
It was appropriate that I Am Mclovin was the winner that Kumbia Race Club President Brian Lenihan greeted in the mounting yard after last Saturday’s Murphy Pipe & Civil Maiden (900m).
Kumbia Race Club’s “bonus” race meeting on Saturday also proved a gift for apprentice jockey Isabella Rabjones … she booted home her first-ever winner.
The Kumbia Race Club will be holding a special meeting on Saturday, March 14: a Celebration Series Race Day.
Kumbia’s special race meeting on Saturday has drawn acceptors from far and wide
Jim Lenihan had a successful day on the punt last Saturday so he certainly went out as a winner when he passed away the very next day.
The Kumbia Race Club will have a turn at staging one of Racing Queensland’s lucrative Celebrate Country Series contests in a fortnight’s time.