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Online session of the camel racing world federation board

Online session of the international camel racing federation board

Dr.kambiz babaei, president of the  camel racing world federation, proclaimed the online session of this federation.
According to the report of the public relation of the international camel racing federation, in this session that held in shape of online, because of covid 19, regarding celebration of “world camel racing 2022” and new election of the federation, needed decision made by the members of the federation and assigned to hold the world camel racing in 16-18 July 2022 in one of the Iran, U.A.E. or Qatar countries.
In the meantime, the election for new members of the board and president, will hold in Turkey on Nov.2021

Boulia Camel Races to overcome ‘speed hump’

Organisers of the annual Boulia Camel Races have promised to “keep the campfires burning” until next year following the cancellation of the 2020 event.

With travel to outback Queensland restricted due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the July event was abandoned with the focus now on the 2021 running of the “Melbourne Cup of camel races”.

Event organiser Rebecka Britton said it was disappointing the small town would miss out on its annual influx of visitors for the event.

“To all the people who were planning to head to outback Queensland to see us in Boulia this July, we’re as disappointed as you are to miss out on 2020,” Ms Britton said.

“But be assured it’s only a small speed hump in our plans, because we’ve already set the dates for Boulia Camel Races to return on 16-18 July 2021.

“By the time outback Queensland is rolling out the welcome mat for travellers again, our tiny towns will be relieved to see visitors back, but for now we’re all in this together and we’ll just have to live off our great memories of 2019.”

Winners of the 2019 Boulia Camel Cup were local trainers Dannileah Stewart and Ronnie Callope.

Camel racing aficionados believe the year off may suit the reigning champions when they defend their crown next year.

Their camels are younger than many others on the circuit and an extra year to mature and train will see them comeback stronger in 2021.

“The camel trainers and their crews who normally make the trek out to see us each year are really going to get itchy feet missing out this year,” Ms Britton said.

“One of our longest supporters, camel trainer and jockey Glenda Sutton, has been making the trek interstate to Boulia for two decades and our four local camel training teams will miss the races as much as our visitors.”

Next year was to be a 25th anniversary celebration for the Boulia Camel Races but that milestone has now been pushed back to 2022.

The organising committee has invited supporters to join them on Facebook and Instagram to share and re-live the memories of their Outback Queensland and camel racing adventures.

TARA CAMEL RACES TO WAIT OUT THE COVID ‘HUMP’

TARA CAMEL RACES TO WAIT OUT THE COVID ‘HUMP’

Tara Festival of Culture and Camel Races have announced they won’t proceed with their festival in August 2021, opting to wait out the ‘hump’ of the Covid-Safe uncertainty a little longer.

Organisers promise the camels and all the festival fun will return to Tara in a future year, but for now will hold off planning their next festival until the path ahead is clearer.

“The festival was such a success for our town last year and we know the format of what we are offering is so well loved,” said Festival President, Mrs Kerry Kelly.  “As our volunteer committee sat around the table to discuss next year, it became clear that we didn’t want to go down the path of curbing attendance and having less people join in the festival fun to allow for social distancing.”

“In the mean time we will continue to meet up, reminiscing on the fun of the last festival and we’ll be keeping an eye on when the time is right for us to again jump in head first for another big festival,” said Mrs Kelly.  “We are completely volunteer run and between us we give thousands of hours to stage the festival, so when we again hit go on our festival planning we want to feel confident our investment will pay off and be successful as it has been these past years,” said Mrs Kelly.

“We had to make a call either way about next year and we had to make it quite early because there is major infrastructure works which need to be scheduled at the festival Showgrounds venue next year,” explained Mrs Kelly.  “So while our festival is on a break next year, there’ll be plenty happening with infrastructure upgrades and this means that when we do return we’ll have a better venue, with important improvements to things like site power capacity.”

The festival’s monumental growth and success is the pride of Tara’s small community. The 2019 festival was the largest crowd to ever be seen in Tara, with caravanners, campers and day-trippers descending on this little town, swelling the population tenfold to 10,000 individuals and the festival recording an estimated 25,000 in total attendance over the three days.

Next year would have been the 11^th Tara Festival of Cultural and Camel Races, held biennially over the last 22 years.

Organisers encourage visitors to check out their cousin event held next year in the neighboring town of Miles, with plans going full steam ahead for the Miles Back to the Bush Festival on 9 to 12 September 2021.  It will be a combined celebration with the 50^th Anniversary of the Miles Historical Village and to mark the occasion the festival will be based for the first time within and adjoining loved Village Museum site.

The Tara Festival of Culture and Camel Races is supported by the Queensland Government through Tourism and Events Queensland.

“We’re pleased to see the COVID-19 restrictions eased in Queensland, moreso even since we made our recent decision, but the environment for anyone delivering a large-scale event like ours is still considerably challenged.  We thank our festival fans, the camels, cameliers and trainers, entertainers, performers, stall holders and our supporting festival partners for their patience while we continue to navigate the uncertainty of these changes,” she said.