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A BIG season is underway for the Dalby & District Jockey Club as its new committee prepares for the club’s first TAB meeting for the year, being held this Saturday, March 2, at Dalby’s renowned Bunya Park Racecourse.
The annual GJ Gardner Newmarket Race Day will this year support a charity drive by the Dalby Rotary Club, which is raising money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
“Rotary has organised several sponsors to support their RFDS fundraiser and it’s great to have the club join us for the first time with such a great initiative,” said Dalby Jockey Club president Bart Turner (pictured).
“They’ve almost booked out a whole marquee, so no doubt it will be a great event for them. It’s something new for us. We’re hoping to have around 500 or 600 people there on Saturday.”
Tickets remain available for this Saturday’s meeting and can be purchased online at the GJ Gardner Newmarket Race Day trybooking page. See the event flyer below for further details.
Several new local faces were inducted into the Dalby Jockey Club committee at the club’s season launch this month, which Turner said was a show of confidence for the future of thoroughbred racing in Dalby.
“We’ve got a really good young committee this year and there are a lot of new young faces,” he said.
“It’s great because they come in with new ideas, they’re enthusiastic, they want to get involved and it means that those of us who’ve been involved in the club for a while don’t get too set in our ways.
“Young crowds in general have really taken to the Dalby Jockey Club in recent years. Our Rugby Race Day in November has become our biggest event.
“People come from all over the place. We’ve had people from Townsville in the north to Coffs Harbour in the south, and we’ve been getting up to about 1,700 people at the track.
“Our big race days are great not only for the race club but the whole town. All the motel rooms are booked out, the pubs fill up after the races and all the cafes are busy the next morning.”
The Dalby Jockey Club has nine race meetings scheduled on its 2024 season calendar, seven of which are TAB meetings, including the Plough Inn Dalby Cup race day in August.
To stay updated follow the Dalby Racing Facebook page or the club’s offical website.
