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Toowoomba Turf Club

Toowoomba Turf Club Inc

64 Hursley Road, Newtown QLD 4350

(07) 4634 6066

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Clifford Park Racecourse is home of the Toowoomba Turf Club, one of Australia's leading provincial race tracks. Racing every Saturday night, Clifford Park plays a vital role in the community. 
 
Clifford Park Racecourse was acquired as a 160-acre block in 1861 and the first meeting on it was conducted by the Darling Downs Jockey Club at the course then known as Drayton and Toowoomba Racecourse on 6th March 1862.
 
Toowoomba Turf Club was formed and conducted its first meetings on 3rd and 4th June that year. The first recorded Toowoomba Cup as run in 1919.
 
In 1992, the Club made Australian racing history by staging the first race ever run under electric lights, the Fosters Toowoomba Cup, which was won by Waigani Drive.
 
On 4th September 1996, the Club staged the first ever night race meeting in Australia.
 
Known as the 'Home of twilight racing' Clifford Park continues to race under lights every Saturday night and hosts over 50 TAB race meetings per year.
 
The Toowoomba Turf Club continued to make Australian racing history when on the 16th February 2009, members voted in favour of the replacement of the grass course proper with a synthetic racing surface called Cushion Track.
 
The completion of the project took full effect on11th July 2009, when the annual Weetwood Handicap and Toowoomba Cup meeting was conducted on the cushion track surface.
 
Four years later, the cushion track was replaced with a grass course proper (StrathAyr) as well as a refurbish of the public Bar and Bistro and the Weetwood Room. 
 
The Darling Downs is the home of thoroughbred racing and breeding in Queensland enabling an active industry for employment, growth and development.  
 
Toowoomba Turf Club plays a vital role within the community, including assisting local charities, schools, sporting groups and clubs raise much needed funds for their future development. 

Quick Facts About The Region

Toowoomba Turf Club is located in the suburb of Newtown, the customer service centre of Toowoomba in the council of Toowoomba Region, the state electorate of Toowoomba North and the federal electorate of Groom.