First Doomben meeting
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Racing in Queensland 1890-2012
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The Townsville Turf Club holds its place as one of Australia's major provincial race Clubs, with TAB and SKY Channel coverage nationwide on most race meetings.
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Consular, whose career highlights included winning the 2003 Goldmarket and being runner-up to Thorn Park in the 2004 Stradbroke Hcp (1400m) at Eagle Farm had a long and solid career with 16 wins from 84 starts.
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In the by gone era, before the massive entertainment options available to people today, race meetings were a huge social event and attracted tens of thousands to race courses all over Queensland. Ladies days were very popular.
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A loyal Queenslander, Mike Pelling, a devoted family man who wanted to bring up his family in Brisbane, rarely rode outside the state. But he built a record which saw him considered among the elite jockeys to be produced here.
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Won his first race, an Eagle Farm maiden, on the same day as the later Caulfield Cup winner Basha Fleika in 1951. Almost all of Carioca’s racing was in Sydney where he developed a great affinity with champion jockey Billy Cook.
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First meeting Totalisator Administration Board of Queensland-committee room Tattersall's Club.
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Doug Bougoure trained the mighty galloper Strawberry Road but also one of his favourite horses remains Sefiona on whom, as a jockey, he won the Brisbane Handicap, Tattersall’s President’s Handicap and Toowoomba Cup. Sefiona also won the QTC Guineas, QTC Derby, QTC St Leger treble in 1947 as well as being a good two-year-old who won four races.
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n 1882, Toowoomba Turf Club was formed and conducted its first meetings on 3 & 4 June that year. The first recorded running of the now time-honoured Weetwood Handicap was in 1989 when it was won by Lord Rosebery. The first recorded Toowoomba Cup as run in 1919.
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Jockey Bill Briscoe set a high bench mak by recording 87 wins in one season. It took 40 years before the record was broken.
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Ladies day
In the by gone era, before the massive entertainment options available to people today, race meetings were a huge social event and attracted tens of thousands to race courses all over Queensland. Ladies days were very popular.
Brisbane Trainers’ Premierships
Brisbane Trainers' Premierships from 1955 to 2009.
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Ladies day
In the by gone era, before the massive entertainment options available to people today, race meetings were a huge social event and attracted tens of thousands to race courses all over Queensland. Ladies days were very popular.
Women in Racing
Achievements by women trainers, jockeys and owners.