| Contact: |
Julia Dolgner |
| Street Address: |
29 Booker Street
Aramac 4726 |
| Postal Address: |
P O Box 14
Aramac 4726 |
| Telephone: |
(07) 4651-3248 |
| FAX: |
(07) 4651-3248 |
| Type: |
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| Facilities Track: |
Bar, bookmakers, catering facilities, 66 stables, hose down bay, Sky Channel, 14 starting stalls, aluminium running rail 1800 metres around. Track has 7 starting places - 800 metres, 1000 metres, 1400 metres, 1900 metres, 2000 metres and 2200 metres. |
| Facilities Town: |
Hotel, motel, post office, service station, cafe, garage, bakery, EFTPOS facilities, caravan park, police station, supermarket with newsagent and hardware. |
| How to get to race track: |
Barcaldine Aramac road. Turn off 2km south of town. |
| History: |
The first race club at Aramac was formed in 1877 and was known as the Mitchell District Grass Fed Racing Club, apparently named after the explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell about 1855. The name of the club was changed to the Aramac Racing Club. Interestingly, committee member B. D. Morehead, went on to become Premier of Queensland. Aramac had the only hurdle race in Queensland – one and a half miles or 2400 metres for grass fed horses. Surely another first for Aramac must be that in the early 1920s, four races in Aramac were run in an anti-clockwise direction. The reason for this was that the stewards decided that portions of the track were too wet to race on. |
| Racing Information: |
Morning Bulletin, Longreach Leader (published weekly)
Radio 4LG and ABC
From the Top Rail (paper twice a month) |
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