About Tamworth
Tamworth Jockey Club, on the Peel River in the country music capital, stages the Tamworth Cup each April to close out the NSW country autumn. The meeting draws horses from the New England, North West Slopes and Hunter Valley districts, and its timing means the cup often fields horses building toward winter campaigns at Grafton and the northern tracks.
The Tamworth circuit is a generous country track where the best wet-weather form holds up through the autumn. Local trainers know the venue intimately, and the cup's supporting benchmark races usually feature honest, fit horses going around for realistic money β exactly the profile that makes country betting markets beatable for prepared punters.