The Brisbane Racing Club is turning one
Queensland's leading metropolitan race club turns one this month and is celebrating with a huge birthday party at the track on Saturday July 10.
B Magazine Anniversary Raceday is the first feature event on the BRCs 2010/11 season calendar and promises to deliver a huge day for racegoers with two black-type races.
Boasting the $150,000 Queensland Cup, Queensland's only two-mile race, the racing action will supply plenty of spectacle. Nothing beats a 3200 metre contest and Cape Breton's victory from the tail of the field in 2009 certainly proved this notion. His jockey, gun apprentice Daniel Ganderton, steered the horse to an impressive big win in the last 100 metres of the race.
At this stage, it could be anyone's victory. History does suggest a good run in the Queensland Cup can lead to a spot in selections for Australia's most famous horse race, the Melbourne Cup, later in the year.
Sydney jockey, Ganderton, certainly stole the show at this big Brisbane racing event last year, also taking out the other feature race on the programme, the $75,000 Listed Ascot Handicap. The talented rider, aboard Battlefield, came charging home in the final stages of the race to defeat Wasted Emotions and Mitanni.
The anniversary day off-track entertainment promises to be just as exciting for the whole family with a host of birthday party activities planned including the zig zagging family favourite Cha Cha ride, kids can bob til they drop on the inflatable Jungle Jive or ride like a real jockey on the pony rides and everybody will love the G-force experience on the Miami Trip.
Brisbane band Velveteen will complete the day's off-track entertainment playing sets around the day's racing action.
Racegoers are encouraged to dig deep at the event and support the Wesley Research Institute who is the official charity beneficiary of the event.
The Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) is the result of a merger between the Queensland Turf Club and Brisbane Turf Club, finalized in July 2009.
The Club launched a $1.2 billion Concept Master Plan in April 2009 the aim of which is to make better use of redundant land to create a community oasis in the heart of Brisbane, together with ensuring the city has the country's finest racing facilities.
In March of this year, the Brisbane Racing Club acquired the Hamilton Bowls Club and at the beginning of this month relaunched the venue as the Brisbane Racing Sports & Social Club.
Construction of a polo field in the centre of Doomben Racecourse has begun and planning is underway for two polo events to be held later this year.
Future plans include a range of community, leisure and lifestyle enhancements to the Brisbane Racing precinct such as the introduction of a weekly fresh food market at Eagle Farm Racecourse and the development of surplus land surrounding Eagle Farm and Doomben to incorporate residential, retail, lifestyle and commercial facilities.
Plans also include construction of 400 architecturally designed stables and new or improved facilities at for patrons to enjoy at both racetracks.
Tickets to the B Magazine Anniversary Raceday are just $15 and kids under 18 can enter for free. B Magazine has an exclusive offer to readers with a $10 discount entry coupon in mag.
For further details phone 07 3268 2171.
