Rich with history, steeped in tradition and poised for the future - is an apt description of country (Non-Tab) racing in Queensland.
Country racing is conducted across the length and breadth of Queensland from the south of the State at Texas to the north at Laura and from the east at Gympie to the extreme west of the State at Camooweal.
There are 107 race clubs that that are scheduled to conduct 296 race meetings in the 2011/12 season at 98 racetracks throughout Queensland. Country racing is conducted every month of the year although some of the regions go into recess during the summer months.
Of the 107 race clubs, 28 are designated as Strategic non-Tab clubs and three (3) conduct Queensland Community Racing Scheme (picnic) race meetings. The remaining 76 clubs are designated non-Tab status.
Strategic non-Tab clubs are strategically located to ensure regional sustainability. These clubs provide increased levels of infrastructure to support training and racing requirements in each region.
Strategic race clubs offer a minimum of $6,000 prizemoney per race conducted, whilst non-Tab clubs offer a minimum of $4,000 per race.
Racing Queensland will program approximately $9M in prizemoney and QTIS bonuses for non-Tab racing in the 2011/12 season, whilst race clubs will value-add in the vicinity of $1.5M to that figure.
The 2010/11 racing season was severely impacted by the natural disasters that devastated Queensland, this resulted in the conduct of 250 country non-Tab race meetings throughout the State with 10,947 starters competing in 1284 races at a healthy average of almost 8.52 starters per race.
Non-TAB racing is conducted in eight (8) geographical regions throughout Queensland:
The governance of country (non-Tab) racing sees both regional and state-wide representation.
Every race club in each region is afforded the opportunity to have a representative on the Country Racing Association (CRA) of that region. A jockey, trainer, bookmaker and owners representative is also on each CRA.
The elected Chairperson of each CRA, together with a member of the Racing Queensland Ltd Board comprises the State Country Racing Committee which provides advice to Racing Queensland Ltd about country (non-Tab) issues.
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