Tatura Racecourse

Tatura Racecourse, Country Victoria.

Tatura Racecourse is located at Cnr Ross Street & O'reilly Road, Tatura, VIC 3616.

With its extremely popular Italian Plate Race Day among its feature race days, racing is alive and well in Tatura. Racing has been a popular pastime in the region since the arrival of settlers.

Races were run in several locations under the banner of the Tatura Turf Club before the site in Ross Street was made available in 1881. The profile of today's club is due to the amalgamation in 1971 of the Goulburn Valley Turf Club with the Tatura Turf Club and was registered as the Goulburn Valley Racing Club. Prior to this merger, in 1959 the Shepparton Jockey Club and the Mooroopna Race Club had combined to form the Goulburn Valley Turf Club. In 1995 the Club voted to adopt a new name and project a clearer link with the course that lies in the middle of the town, forming the Tatura Racing Club and in 2005 expanded to become the Tatura & Shepparton Racing Club. The Club has gone from strength to strength with constant improvements to facilities to ensure a modern facility, with the track fully renovated in 2004.

The track is smooth with no rises or falls. The turns are cambered and regular, maintaining a width of around 15m that widens to 20m in the straight. Soil type is clay and the track is fully irrigated.

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