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Queensland's Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club brings rural community together for 'wholesome fun'

Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Races have been running since 1909. (ABC Rural: Andrea Crothers)

Once a year, on an outback cattle station in the heart of Queensland, hundreds of people gather for one of the last grass-fed amateur horse races in the state.

While you'll never see the horses that run at Tower Hill lining up at the Melbourne Cup, it's just as significant for the punters who trek to Hillview Station, near Muttaburra, for the four-day event.

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