PHOTO: Kirsty Maxwell, dressed by Helen McLean at Big On Style, Derby Day at the Dogs major sponsors Mark Day from City Limousine, Mark Dee from Carpet One and Warren Sambrook from Dubbo City Bakery with City Limousine finalist Can’t Hackett.
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GREYHOUNDS: The Dubbo Greyhound Club is styling up for this Saturday’s Derby Day at the Dogs.
A different flavour of glitz and glamour is set to invade Dawson Park with the Derby Day festivities moved to the venue from the Dubbo Turf Club due to the equine influenza outbreak.
The club is eager to use the opportunity to promote greyhound racing to the wider community and organisers have been busy preparing for the huge 12-race program.
Racing pundits can expect to be kept up to date with all the interstate horse racing live via a big screen as well as tote bookmakers while top greyhound bookmaker Brian Cleaver will be trackside.
The feature race for the day will be the City Limousines Dash final over 313m.
As well as putting up $1000 for the winner, City Limousines proprietor Mark Day was looking forward to the fashions in the feld, of which he is also the major sponsor.
The eight semi-finalists of the Fashions in the Field will each draw a number corresponding to the rug worn by each of the City Limousines Dash finalists to determine the winner.
Day recently moved to Dubbo from Adelaide and saw this event as a perfect opportunity to promote his business in the city.
“A friend told me there were a lot of available women in Dubbo so I thought I’d come and take advantage of it and start up the company,” Day quipped.
“Derby Day is traditionally the glamour day so this is a good chance to expose City Limousines to the community.
“We will have a marquee where people can book to be taken home in one of the brand new stretched Fairlanes - some people call it “stretched sex on wheels”.
“We charge a $15 minimum booking fee that includes the first five kilometres so from Macquarie Street to the airport it’s actually cheaper than taxis.”
Originally from Cobar, Day trained his first greyhound winner at Dubbo in January 1975 and later sat on the Greyhound Racing Authority for three years.
“Dubbo has been good to me,” he said. “Whenever I needed a quid I could bring a dog over and they always had very strong bookmakers.
“I understand the setup of country greyhound racing and the Dubbo club has a brilliant opportunity to showcase their product to the market.
“If a thousand people come and they get a 10 per cent retention then that’s another 100 people who will front up during the year.”
