Off and Racing as 2022 Stradbroke Season presented by TAB Launches

 
Brisbane Racing Club’s 2022 Stradbroke Season presented by TAB and the TAB Queensland Racing Carnival were launched with fanfare at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Tuesday, with special guest TAB Ambassador Emma Freedman flying in to compere proceedings.

Stradbroke Season presented by TAB is the premier, six-raceday event of the Carnival, with the first race meeting, Treasury Brisbane Queensland Guineas Day this Saturday, 30 April, at Eagle Farm.

At Tuesday’s launch, Brisbane Racing Club CEO Tony Partridge and Racing Queensland CEO Brendan Parnell outlined to the 150 guests the top-quality racing, trackside hospitality and off-track social events in store over the next two months.

With border restrictions lifted and travel resuming, plus more than $15 million in racing prizemoney on the line during Stradbroke Season (of the more than $21 million for all of the Queensland Racing Carnival) Mr Partridge said there has been unprecedented interest from interstate and New Zealand trainers as well as racegoers and businesses interested in corporate hospitality.

Guests at the launch also heard from three-times Melbourne Cup winning jockey Kerrin McEvoy, who has 11 Group 1 Queensland wins to his name since 2012 and is hoping to add to that tally this Carnival, Eagle Farm-based trainer Desleigh Forster, who has her eye on the $1.5 million Group 1 TAB Stradbroke Handicap with Apache Chase the first confirmed runner, and Lizzie Jelfs, who, like Emma Freedman, will be part of Channel 7’s racing coverage during Stradbroke Season.

Tickets for the six Stradbroke Season racedays at Eagle Farm and Doomben Racecourses are from $20 general admission and from $150 for function packages.

For information and to book, visit www.brc.com.au.