Gold Coast Horse Racing is Great Entertainment

The Gold Coast Horse Races and Racing occasions have always been put on at the Gold Coast Turf Club that is ideally based merely several minutes by way of Surfers Paradise Beach front. The current day Gold Coast Turf Club began around sixty years back in 1946 as the Southport and District Amateur Race Club and has since developed into a substantial and diversified complex. The Club's facilities presently host a big array of social and corporate occasions, seminars, carnivals and seminars whilst still developing its major activities focused around its horse racing meetings.

The Club currently holds weekly horse races which initially originated in 1971 during a three day Gold Coast horse racing celebration that has become identified as the Newmarket Gold Coast Cup. In 1974 the club launched the Prime Minister’s Cup that begun with a prize of Thirty Tousand Dollars and has now expanded to return overall race day prizes in excess of $1,000,000. Given its frequent Saturday race days and added meetings all through 12 months, a total of approximately 60 group meetings tend to be held yearly. A couple of of the most significant include the Prime Ministers Cup Carnival, the Magic Millions Carnival, the Melbourne Cup Race Day celebrations, Gold Coast City Race Cup Day, Gold Coast Stakes Race day and the Easter Carnival.

The Gold Coast Turf Club additionally provides services for exclusive events both on competition days and for exclusive intervals. Also there are numerous function rooms and exclusive event venues in the Club among them the Magic Millions Bar, Paradise Room, the Dome, the Winners Circle and the Southern Lawn Marquee. There are apparently innumerable on course bars, eateries, cafes and bistros. Mid week race meets and Saturday Races are put on all through the year, largely because of to the three hundred days of sunlight that blankets the Gold Coast yearly. It is definitely definitely worth checking out the opening times for particular race meets however on typical race days the gates open from 10am.