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The new 2.967 km (1.844 mi) layout was first used on the weekend of 14–15 August 2010 for a round of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships. This meeting featured a round of Australia's oldest motor racing championship, the Australian Drivers' Championship, which was visiting Morgan Park for the first time.
The Eagle Farm Racecourse was established in 1863 and continues to operate as one of Queensland's premier racecourses. Additions and extensions include the establishment of the Pinkenba railway line (1882), the Paddock Stand (1889), the St Leger Stand (1913 with extensions in 1938), the Totalisator Building (1913 with extensions in the 1920s and 1950s), the entrance gates (1913), ticket boxes ...
This is a list of currently active horse racing venues, both Thoroughbred racing and harness racing, sorted by country. In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses". The United States and some parts of Canada use the term "racetracks" and some parts of Canada also use "raceway".
This is a list of auto racing tracks in Canada. The number of turns and track length are based on the standard, full courses for each track. The major series in bold listed are currently hold a race at the track.
The J. J. Atkins, registered as the T.J. Smith Stakes, is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds run at set weights over a distance of 1600 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane in June during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. [1] Total prizemoney is A$1,000,000.
The Queensland Turf Club (QTC) was founded in August 1863. It began on a piece of land in Ascot, Queensland , later called Eagle Farm Racecourse , given to the club by government grant. The first meeting of the club was held on 14 August 1865.
The Brisbane Racing Club was founded on 1 July 2009 by a merger of the Queensland Turf Club and the Brisbane Turf Club (BTC). [2] The club conducted 98 race meetings in 2012. [2] The consolidation of the race clubs was the first of its kind in Australia [3] as later other metropolitan race clubs would follow their initiative. [4]
The inaugural running of the race was run as the Queensland Oaks Stakes during the Christmas meeting at Eagle Farm on December 27, 1951 when short odds-on favourite Malt Maid was victorious. [2] By 1953 the race was run on the Queensland Cup race card in November. [3] The race was moved as part of the Brisbane Winter Carnival in 1973. [1]