Casterton Racing Club
Casterton Racing Club is located in the Glenelg Shire, in the South West of the state, and is the only racing venue in the shire. The course is set in a natural amphitheatre with rolling hills all around and boundaries of local rivers - it rates as one of the most picturesque courses around.
Casterton Racing Club is a racing club steeped in tradition. We are the oldest sporting club in Casterton and are the only club in Australia to have a live hedge steeplechase on its own course. By having this live hedge steeplechase, patrons witness a fantastic spectacle and horses and jockeys experience how jumps racing should be.
Casterton Racing Club ran its first open hurdle race on February 26th, 1861 and was run over 1.5 miles and the first steeple race was run here on 14 May 1862, which was called the Great Western Steeplechase and run over 4 miles.
