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Located near the old Snowtown Racing Club just of Highway One
The Snowtown Racing Club held its first race on Thursday 22/1/1880 and its last race on Wednesday 2/8/1967.The largest crowd gathered on Saturday 24/2/1946 with a crowd of 7000 in attendance, mostly from the Mid-North and York Penninsula but also there were 750 people who came from Adelaide on a train specific for the event.Snowtown Racing Club was the first country racing club to have a form of Totalizator(before 1900),which later became part of the Totalizator Agency Board (TAB).In the 1950's When the club was at its peak there were 4 meetings held each year.From where the cache is you will be looking over the grounds that was purchased in 1903 from the Barr Smith family (Elders Smith).It was said to have one of the best tracks in the country during its time, mainly because of the angle of the internal rail along which the horses raced.There was once a Polo Club that used the area to the right and for a period there also was a horse club that used the grounds.The original track is still out there but the rail was taken down a few years after the track closed.The original Totalizator building still stands but is incorporated into the Snowtown and Districts Pistol and Shooting Club Inc(SADPASC) shooting range so please do not try to access that area.
John(johnny) Letts won his first race at the Snowtown Racing Track.Johnny was introduced to horse racing at the age of 13 when his teacher at the time told him that he should give horse racing a go as he was not the brightest student in the class(this was just a joke between student and his teacher),he gave it a go and never looked back.When he raced at Snowtown he weighed in at 45kg.
Johnny raced for more than 30 years,he won 3 SAJC Adelaide Cups (1968,1976,1983),1 AJC Epson Handicap(1977),1 VRC Australian Cup(1980) and 2 Melbourne Cups (Piping Lane 1972 and Beldale Ball 1980) and in his life he won in excess of 1500 races.Johnny still remembers the wonderful times he had at the country race tracks and still promotes country events as he feels he owes a great deal to that first win at Snowtown
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