Race away from the every-day!
Warwick’s Cup Day combines style and fine racing with welcoming country hospitality, fun and a great atmosphere, in a picture perfect setting. Best of all, you don’t have to be from the country to experience it!
Get a group of friends, work colleagues or clients together and get out of town to experience one of Australia’s finest traditions for yourself at the Warwick Cup on Saturday 9 October 2010.
Dressed by Kennedy and Forbes and The Hat Box. Photographed by Lucas Wroe
Warwick’s Cup Day combines style and fine racing with welcoming country hospitality, fun and a great atmosphere, in a picture perfect setting. Best of all, you don’t have to be from the country to experience it!
Just two hours from Brisbane, Warwick is an easy day trip or even better, why not make a weekend of it?
Popular tradition
The Warwick Cup was first run in 1859 – two years before the first Melbourne Cup – and is still one of the proudest regional race meets in Australia.Quality horses and some of the richest prize money on offer in regional Queensland, ensures the Warwick Cup continues to be a fantastic day of racing – stylish, surprising and fun!
The Carlton Trackside Marquee
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Groups of ten or more can experience the Warwick Cup in style in The Carlton Trackside Marquee, with catering and hospitality packages available from just $35 per person, including racecourse admission. |
This could be the opportunity to make your corporate hospitality or social group’s budget go further!
The Carlton Trackside Marquee will be a hub of activity on Cup Day so you won’t miss a minute of the action or the hype of racing’s social circles. Guests will enjoy exclusive access to a full service bar, amenities and betting facilities in a convenient trackside setting.
Adding to the atmosphere in The Carlton Trackside Marquee this year will be The Black Toyota Retreat, an oasis designed by award-winning garden artist Clint Kenny that promises to be the perfect spot to meet, mingle and soak up the racing atmosphere on Cup day.
Feel what it’s like to ‘own a horse for a day’
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Want to feel your heart pound as ‘your’ horse thunders toward the finish line? Or cheer ‘your’ champion home as it rounds the last bend? If you’ve never experienced a horse race from an owner’s perspective, this is your chance! |
For just $10 a person (in addition to racecourse entry or ticket price) you can experience the thrill of a behind-the-scenes look at what it?s like to own a horse for a day*. Thanks to Raheen Stud.
Treat yourself, your friends and your guests to an insider’s look at country racing. The day will start with some late mail from a local bookie in the know and you’ll get some tips on reading the form guide. As Cup day progresses, you’ll be drawn further into the action; hearing the trainer and jockey’s ‘race plan’ before the race, seeing ‘your’ horse being groomed and prepared to run and having your photograph taken with the horse after its race!
To help you prepare for the big day, information about ‘your’ horse will be sent the day before the Cup, to your nominated email address.
Fashions on the Field
Hats, heels & fascinators...Fashions on the Field by CGU Insurance is the most glamorous event on Cup Day. Entrants will be competing for thousands of dollars worth of cash and prizes.
GET INTO THE RACING SPIRIT THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BIG DAY
The MyOptical Cup Calcutta, held the Friday night prior to the Cup (October 8) is the ideal warm up to a great day of thoroughbred racing and is the unofficial start of the Cup festivities.
Everybody is welcome to the Calcutta, held in the Members’ Enclosure at Allman Park. It’s a great way to soak up the pre-Cup action featuring national and international racing identity and guestspeaker Geoff Lane, an animated auction and a live phantom call of the Cup to spark the racing spirit. A cash bar will be operating on the night.
Make a weekend of it
If you’re heading to Warwick for the Cup, why not make a weekend of it? Spring is a great time to visit country Queensland and make the most of the local hospitality.
Relax after the Cup with a round of golf or by simply taking time out in the countryside. Warwick, the centre of the scenic Darling Downs, is a vibrant rural community known for its sandstone architecture, famous homesteads and rose gardens as well as cosmopolitan cafes and boutiques.
You may even take the opportunity to explore the nearby wineries of Queensland’s premier wine region, the Granite Belt.
There are plenty of accommodation options in and around Warwick that will ensure your stay is comfortable and convenient.
This iconic regional event is supported by Warwick Credit Union, Fraser Livestock Transport, Creed & Lang, Warwick Vet Clinic, Seven, Warwick Daily News, Warwick Hotel, Gross Wholesale Meats, John Duggan Amcal Chemist, MyOptical, CGU Insurance, Black Toyota, Raheen Stud & Fosters.
* The Own a Horse for a Day package provides only the benefits as outlined in the Warwick Cup information and does not provide the ticket holder to any payments, full or part thereof, as a result of any earnings or income obtained by the relevant trainers, jockey, horse owners and associated staff of participating horses during the day.