Hanging Rock Racing Club

Racing at Hanging Rock is held twice a year on New Year's Day and on Australia Day and attracts around 3,000 to 4,000 people per meeting and has in the past attracted crowds over the years of up to 25,000 per meeting. 

The first official race meeting was held at the iconic Hanging Rock on New Years Day 1886, however thoroughbred racing has been taking place at the base of the Rock on an unofficial basis from at least the 1870s and probably earlier. 

Hanging Rock which overlooks the racecourse was created 6.25 million years ago by volcanic magna and was the basis for the 1975 feature film “Picnic at Hanging Rock” directed by Peter Weir.

Racing at the Rock is considered by most people as a very unique experience, the best that Country Racing can offer, a true Aussie Day Out and a must for the “Bucket List”