About Coonamble
Coonamble, on the Castlereagh River in north-western NSW, hosts one of the best-attended country cup days in the state. Coonamble Cup Day each October brings together the best horses from the region's strong bush stables β the town sits at the crossroads of the Walgett, Warren and Dubbo training districts β and the supporting card always draws deep fields.
The Coonamble track is a fair, galloping country circuit where on-pace runners often make their own luck, and the cup has a history of launching horses toward bigger spring targets. For punters the meeting is a form goldmine: many runners are campaigned through the same cluster of tracks (Warren, Gilgandra, Dubbo), so recent course-and-distance form is usually on display.