The annual Camooweal Races are always a colourful highlight of the biggest weekend of the year in the small border town.
With the Camooweal Drovers Festival in full swing at the Drovers Camp on all weekend in conjunction with the national bronco branding championships, the town's population swelled for the weekend.
The Saturday races at Cronin Park offered locals, station owners and staff and tourists alike the chance to dress up for the occasion.
There was plenty of style for fashions on the field as well as hotly contested foot races between the events of the five-race horse meet card.
This was the 130th running of the historic race meeting.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
