Welcome To Bathurst Harness Racing Club

GOLD CROWN CARNIVAL

19 – 30 MARCH 2025

Race Dates

2024 -2025 RACE CALENDAR
Please find attached our race dates for the 2024-2025 racing calendar. We race 56 times in the season with predominately Wednesday Night meetings. Our feature meetings are of course the Gold Crown Carnival 19 - 30 March 2025 and Shirley Turnbull Night on Boxing Night.

RACE DATES 2024-25

Memberships

2024 SEASON
Become a member today of Bathurst Harness Racing Club and enjoy the benefits on offer. We offer two levels of membership: Full Membership and Pensioner Membership. Membership is now aligned with the racing season, meaning memberships are now renewed at the start of the Calendar Year.

MEMBERSHIP FORM

Gold Crown Carnival

The Bathurst Gold Crown Carnival is a feature of the harness racing calendar – held annually in late March. It features SIX race meetings & many social events such as Ladies Day, Calcutta, Ambrose Golf Day & Honouree Dinner. The highlight on the track are the two- and three-year-old finals on the last Saturday night of March, offering $A150 000.00 and $A 100 000 respectively in prize-money.

About Horrses

About Bathurst Harness Racing Club

Bathurst Harness Racing Club is one of Australia’s most successful provincial race clubs in the country. Bathurst is centrally located within the Central West of NSW, with Dubbo 2 hours to the west and Sydney 2 ½ hours to the east.

In October 2014, the club moved into brand new premises near Mount Panorama. This Facility will expand in the future to include an on-site training centre together a memorabilia room.
The club conducts 58 race meetings a year, primarily on a Wednesday or a Friday night. The club’s jewel in the crown is the well known and highly popular Bathurst Gold Crown Carnival, which is held in late March each year.

For Over Three Decades, Bathurst Has Served As The Center of Harness Racing World

In March 2020, Bathurst Harness Racing Club once again proudly presents one of the great celebrations of harness racing, Gold Crown Carnival Week.

For seven days, Bathurst attracts the attention of racing enthusiasts in Australia, New Zealand, and around the world, bringing together five high profile title races, evenings filled with dinners, and events celebrating the sport, its competitors, and fans, as well as historical tours and other exciting events. Before you come, make sure to explore the long list of fun filled activities to get ready to have an unforgettable experience immersed in the tradition of horse harness racing.

Check out all of the exciting events over the eight days to plan out your experience. Then come to Bathurst Harness Racing Club this March to participate in the tradition, pageantry, and exhilaration of Gold Crown Carnival Week.

Functions

Nominations

Sponsorships

Gold Crown Carnival Honour Rolls

Gold Carnival Week at Bathurst Harness Racing Club exemplifies the best traditions in harness racing. While we celebrate another great year of races, dinners and receptions, tours, and social events, let us take a moment to honour the victories and accomplishments of past winners.

Diligent work, great skill, and a little luck add up to forming great competitors. These horses and drivers won while competing for some of harness racing’s greatest laurels.