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MORUYA JOCKEY CLUB

North Ryde RSL

MORUYA CUP RACE DAY

Gates open 12pm - 8 Race Card; First Race 1.35pm; Last Race 5.50pm.

On course facilities - Bar, TAB, Bookies, ATM, Eftpos facilities as well as food inclusive the Moruya Ice Cream Café (Members), The Rotary Kiosk, Charlies Little Kitchen, Capriz Pizza, Crying Tiger BBQ, Caffeissimo Coffee Van, Hot Diggity Dogs, Reggies Ice Creams and D’lish D’lite Donuts.

Fashions (Theme Summer) - Categories include Best Dressed Boy and Girl (under 12), (Judged after race 2), Best Dressed Male and Best Dressed Filly, Best Dressed Mare (Over 50) and Best Dressed Couple (Judged after Race 3). Best Dressed Theme Male, Filly and Mare (Judged after Race 4).

Kids Activities - It will be a great family day out as on site we will also have FREE kids’ activities inclusive pony rides, jumping castle and face painting.

To add to the atmosphere, we also have Party Mode DJs to add to the already vibrant atmosphere in between races.

Bus Services

There will be bus services running from Club Narooma (via the Bodalla Pub) and Club Tuross departing at 11.30am with a return for all destinations departing the race track at 6.10pm. Cost is $10 with bookings essential and to be done through Club Narooma (02) 44762 135 or Club Tuross (02) 4473 8186.

There will also be a bus service departing the Promenade Plaza Batemans Bay at 11.45am and travelling via the coastal road. Bookings to be done through Priors (02) 44724040.

Thank you to our Sponsors for the Day inclusive North Ryde RSL, Mitre 10 Moruya, Adelaide Hotel Moruya, Onecall Steel and Form, Moruya Golf Club, Pretty View Retreat, AMH Automotive Group.

Sunday 4th January - Moruya Cup Golf Day (Ambrose) and Calcutta - Get involved book your group and enjoy a round, good banter which will all be followed by the Calcutta at the Club. Bookings for both events through the Club (02) 44 742 300.

Tickets Available at the gate $15 General Admission / $10 Senior or Concession Card Holders

Latest News

Chairman’s Report AGM 2025

This year, as in all recent years, the 2024 reports will justify the Board’s belief that Moruya Jockey Club is the country Thoroughbred racing club with the most to offer participants, Members and other race goers. This translates to large acceptances for most race meetings, even in the winter months when numbers drop off at other courses, and to great year-round crowds, the envy of comparable clubs.

Dynamic turnover and consistently good profits allow Moruya Jockey Club to provide significant financial and other support to many organisations in the Eurobodalla, reinforcing the Club’s aim of being in the community for the community.

For the year to 30th. June 2025 the profit was $139,982 up from $54,725 in the previous financial year.

Capital expenditure in the last two years totals $620,000, some of which has been reimbursed by Racing NSW (increased water allocation $35,000, to secure water for the course for the foreseeable future).

The remainder has been spent on capital improvements, completed or being developed. The Board expects large contributions from Racing NSW given that Racing NSW owns the racecourse, and negotiations continue.

Full figures are available elsewhere in these reports.

I am excited and very pleased to announce that the long awaited building works have commenced. The Modified D.A. was approved and already marked improvements to the appearance of the main buildings are apparent with painting and reroofing the most obvious. The new external stairs will be in place for the 21st. December meeting and with other work already completed in the tower, many of the fire safety compliance issues identified in the original D.A. of 2021 will be satisfied.

Work will proceed as follows: Jockeys’ Rooms, Stewards’ Room, Members Deck and Tower.

This is a huge building project by country race club standards and the Board believes that the completed works will be a model for other similar clubs to adopt as their infrastructure ages over time and no longer complies with safety and other requirements.

That the work has proceeded to this stage is due in the main, to the diligence of Deputy Chairman Chris Gandy and I will have more to say about this when I speak to my report at the AGM.

As always, I cannot speak highly enough of our staff, paid and volunteer. Executive Officer Ken Brown is a standout among country managers. His reputation with sponsors, participants and racegoers is second to none.

Neil Perryman and his track staff have consistently produced top racing and training surfaces despite many adverse weather conditions. My thanks to Brent Hull, Course Manager at Moruya Golf Club who works closely as a consultant with Neil. Jumpouts ( trials with starters in each heat limited to four) are held every second week and these are run by Neil and volunteers. Trainers from other racecourses avail themselves of, and pay for, this service.

Barrier Attendants in Moruya are volunteers, they are the best in the SERA and as always, I salute them. They give willingly of their time on race days and at Jumpouts and offer help around the course when it is needed.

The success of a club can be measured in many ways, and performance figures are a start but there are many contributing factors. Moruya Jockey Club is extremely successful. On any race day, but especially the bigger ones during the Summer Carnival, the atmosphere on the course is vibrant and exciting. The course is humming; large fields of quality horses, big crowds, bookmaker and bar areas pulsing, food and drink vendors doing a roaring trade, activities for children, music playing and the ever popular Fashions On The Field where outfits of all categories are on show.

Sponsors are so important to race clubs and MJC sponsors bring something special to our meetings. The representatives attending are always so enthusiastic, can’t wait to come back next year, and are full of praise for the Club. This is a tribute to Ken and to Board Member Jim Madden who works his magic for the Tuross/ Bodalla race day.

Singling out staff for their excellent performances can be risky; we have some staff for whom I will do that, but in later communications.

To my fellow Board Members, I say thank you for the time you give to the Club, for your ideas and for the spirit in which our Board meetings are held. Moruya Jockey Club is a great club of which to be Chairman and I thank you all for making it that way.

Peter Atkinson.