PHOTO: Rachael Buckley is off to Royal Randwick after winning the Miss Country Championships fashion prize.
IT was the fourth time a Country Championships Qualifier had been held at Coonamble and a large good-spirited crowd made their way to the Coonamble Racecourse on Sunday 12 March for the event.
The day was hot and humid for the most part, with racegoers seeking the shade in between the eight races – except when the fashions took to the catwalk.
With clothing, jewellery and hats for sale in the market stalls, parade organisers Eliza Walters and Angela Thompson rounded up ten local fillies to showcase a selection of outfits atop a runway supplied by Coonamble Shire Council…