Brunette Races, Brunette Downs NT
Well, here we are finally. From Barkly Homestead it's 130km on a development road (rough bitumen wide enough for 1 car, rougher dirt either side), then turn right and 10km down a wide gravel road. First impression is that it's not much to look at. It just a bunch of vans and trucks and utes parked off to one side, then the racecourse itself, which is a few tin sheds and a track about 2km long. The first race had 3 horses, the second had 5. Judy picked the winner by sheer good luck (it was skill! JB comment )and picked up $57. The races themselves are really amateur staff, although some of them actually have Registered Horses. They also had a Calcutta thing which i know nothing of but its something like a sweep, and they had a few races where they 'sell' the horses. This was odd. Each horse gets auctioned to the highest bidder, Some went for nearly $2000! Then they have the race and whoever 'owns' the horse takes the pot. Now there were about three horses o...