Cobar Miners Race Club president Jarrod Marsden was thrilled to welcome a big crowd (estimated to be about 2,000) for the club’s Autumn race meeting on Saturday.
After a few days of rain leading up to the event, the sun shone on Saturday for what Mr Marsden believes “was undoubtedly the best Cobar races ever”.
“It was the biggest crowd anyone can remem-ber and the biggest race fields anyone can re-member,” Mr Marsden said.
He said the betting turnover was up around the $30k mark and a bonus was that “most of the bookies lost on the day”.
Mr Marsden said it was great to see Dubbo trainer, Connie Greig, win her 4th WesTrac Cobar Cup and jockey Clayton Gallagher ride three winners on the six race program.
This year’s Fashions on the Field competition attracted a high quality field of entrants with judges Seigrid Peters, Tom Shanahan and Jade Dillon having their work cut out for them choosing the winners.
In the Best Dressed Young Lady (18-35 years) category, Janette Bishop was declared the winner with Bonnie Martin the runner-up.
Jamie Bennett won the Best Millinery catego-ry.
Trish Wendland from Dubbo won the Best Dressed Lady (40 years and over) with local Jacinta Cain the runner-up.
The Best Dressed Gent was Talon Buxton with Shayne Carroll (Bourke) the runner-up.
The Best Dressed Teen Boy (13-17 years) was Nicholas Wells and the Best Dressed Teen Girl (13-17 years) was Elly May Pagett.
The Best Dressed Child 0-12 years was Au-bree Everingham with Ryder Anderson the runner-up.
