The Gold Coast Horse Races and Racing festivals are held at the Gold Coast Turf Club which is suitably found just several min's from Surfers Paradise Beach front. The current day Gold Coast Turf Club commenced around sixty years back in 1946 as the Southport and District Amateur Race Club and has since grown to a sizeable and diverse complex. The Club's areas presently host a significant selection of social and business events, workshops, carnivals and seminars while still having its main activities targeted around its horse racing meetings.
Normal Saturday events commenced in 1971 with the Newmarket-Gold Coast Cup and it was a three day turf track carnival. In 1974 the club introduced the Prime Minister's Cup which began with a winning prize of $30,000 and has since grown to pay out overall race day prizes in excess of One Million Dollars. In total the Gold Coast Turf Club nowadays holds around sixty race group meetings each season and this includes several important occasions which includes January's Magic Millions Carnival, the Melbourne Cup Race day, Prime Minister's Cup Carnival, Easter Carnival, Gold Coast Stakes Race day and Gold Coast City Cup Race day.
With such terrific oncourse services the Gold Coast Turf Club can furthermore host a wide spectrum of amazing occasions functions and company days. Also there are a handful of function suites and particular event venues in the Club for example the Magic Millions Bar, Paradise Room, the Dome, the Winners Circle and the Southern Lawn Marquee. Truth be told there are so many bistros, restaurants, cafes and bars at the Gold Coast Turf Club it might be simple to overlook that the Gold Coast Horse Races are actually staged here. Mid week race meetings and Saturday Races are put on all the way through the year, for the most part attributed to to the three hundred days of sunshine that blankets the Gold Coast each year. On race days the main gates open up at 10:00am with specific times for special events.
