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Geelong Race Track

Geelong Race Track: Home of the Geelong Cup!

Geelong Race Track is a major regional race track in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Geelong Race Track is well-known for its annual staging of the famed Geelong Cup.

The Geelong Cup is an annual Australian Group 3 thoroughbred horse race . The race is open to horses of all ages and sexes. The race is held over a distance of 2,400 metres at the Geelong Race Track on the fourth Wednesday of October each year.

Geelong Race Track Description

• The Geelong Race Track boasts of a spacious race track that has a 400-metre straight and a 2,043-metre circumference.
• Races are run in an anti-clockwise fashion.
• The race track has sweeping turns.

Geelong Race Track also has the new Geelong ThoroughTrack, an all-weather race track located in the inner area of the existing race track. Replacing the old turf inner course, the Geelong ThoroughTreck has an all-weather synthetic surface that has been greeted with approval from the entire horse racing community in Victoria, as well as in Australia as a whole. Aside from its synthetic surface, Geelong ThoroughTrack also boasts of plastic running rails, new design barrier stalls and coloured saddlecloths.

Geelong ThoroughTrack is 1,850 metres in circumference with a 380 metre final straight. It has start distances of 1000m, 1100m, 1200m, 1250m, 1300m, 1550m (turf start), 1900m, 2000m, 2100m and 2200m.

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Geelong Race Track History

• In May 1841, Geelong staged its inaugural race meeting at Corio.

• In 1844, the first official annual Geelong race meeting was conducted. There were several locations used for those meetings, among them Fyansford, North Shore, Belmont, Lara, Birregurra, Inverleigh, Leigh Road, Winchelsea, Moriac, Meredith, Queenscliff, Portarlington, Drysdale and Torquay.

• In 1849, a 727-acre site on flats beside the Barwon River was chosen for the Marshalltown race track.

• In 1872, the first Geelong Cup was held.

• In 1907, the race track and the showgrounds were relocated to its present site on Breakwater Road .

• In December 1908, the inaugural meeting at the Geelong Race Track was held.

• Throughout the years, Geelong Race Track has seen many upgrades and renovations, including the provision of a third grandstand and the construction of the synthetic surfaced ThoroughTrack.

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