Ladies Day - Flemington Racecourse

This time of the year we are usually in full swing of the show season, the last thing on my mind would be having a day off work to go to the races in Melbourne! Yet the trek to Melbourne by car that takes around 5 hours with the Girls for a day of frocks and frivolity was a distraction to what we were missing this year.

My little Quarter Horse mare 'Roxy' and I had only recently started competing in Stockman's Challenges with the local shows providing a great circuit for us, this year I was hoping to have at least half a dozen competitions to go to over the summer - certainly something worth getting out of bed for in the morning to put in the hard yards. With fewer Campdrafts and rising fuel costs this was going to be 'our thing' this season in between being 'strapper' for friends with their show hacks at the local shows.

A trip to Melbourne had been planned to attend Equitana, we were all looking forward to a couple of days of Horsey retail therapy and catching up on some horse action as well. With the money saved it was with great disappointment for many reasons when Equine Influenza was announced and then later the postponement of Equitana.

So with no horse events in sight we decided a trip to Ladies Day at the Flemington Racecourse was on the agenda. It was a great day, the Bio-security was 'pleasant' with no orange bunting, but with spectators leaning over the fence to pat the Clerk of the Courses horse it did seem abit ridiculous - especially when we live 1500km away from the closest EI outbreak and all our local shows have been cancelled!

A great couple of days away, a good excuse to get dressed up and I hope you enjoy the photo's.

CM