“It’s a first for us going Australia wide,” Brook said. “I hope people enjoy it. It’s quite a job for a club that only races once a year to put it on. “You have to get a lot of things right. So I’ve ...

The Brook family will be front and centre at next month’s iconic Birdsville Cup day, but also cheering a potential Group 1 filly who will be racing in Victoria on the same day. The Brook family who ...

GETTING a horse to Birdsville can be a hazardous exercise, but for Kym Healy it’s just another destination on an eventful outback journey. No one in racing spends more time on Australia’s back roads ...

As the thoroughbreds thundered down the dusty racetrack, all eyes were glued on punters hoping to give Birdsville a fashion moment to remember. Dressed in beer boxes, rubber breasts and even a horse’s ...

A small desert town in Australia's remote outback was transformed into a non-stop two-day carnival as thousands of people travelled across the vast continent to watch the Birdsville Races. Lonely ...

More than two decades after she won the Birdsville Cup – and long before Michelle Payne won the Melbourne Cup – trailblazing jockey Rebecca Kerwin is back at the iconic outback race. Heading to the ...

The outback Queensland township’s population has grown from about 100 people to more than 7000 over the past three weeks as visitors from across Australia and around the world arrived to enjoy the ...

REMOTE Outback of town hosts 7000 visitors for popular annual bush racing event. This weekend up to 7000 people have descended on the tiny Queensland town of Birdsville for the iconic bush racing ...

There's no place like Birdsville for the Brook Family. If you take the road west of Brisbane and travel 1600km, nestled on the edge of two deserts you’ll eventually stumble across the tiny but famous ...