BIRDSVILLE RACES POSTPONED.

By Graham Potter | Monday, August 9, 2021

The famous Birdsville Races have been postponed until April next year.

The new dates for the event are Sunday, April 10, 2022 and Monday, April 11, 2022.

The announcement, made by the Birdsville Race Club, also confirmed that the Birdsville racing fixture for September 2022 would remain in place, meaning that there will be two editions of iconic event in 2022.

The club had little option but to settle on a postponement … as explained by Gary Brook, the Vice President of the Birdsville Race Club, when talking to the ABC North West Queensland.

“We are now less than a month away from the event, and more than eighty-five percent of our ticket holders reside in locations that are interstate and unable to currently enter Queensland, or in lockdown or discouraged from travelling to regional Queensland,” said Brook.

"The fact that key staff and contractors cannot make it to Birdsville now also jeopardizes our ability to stage a successful event.”

The 2021 Birdsville Races were originally due to take place on Friday, September 3 and Saturday, September 4.