PHOTO: Tyler Ginn, Cameron Hallinan, Matt Bestwick, Laura Bryant and Dean Brus arrived in style on the final day of the October Carnival. PHOTO: The Coonamble Times/ River McCrossen
Hundreds of people gathered over the long weekend in what may be Coonamble’s final annual greyhound carnival as the local race track stares down the potential end of an era.
Spectators travelled from as far as Melbourne and Brisbane to watch the October Carnival run 58 races on three days between 4-7 October, with up to around 150 spectators on Friday night.
Five people from Orange, usually a three-and-a-half-hour drive, even arrived via helicopter, including breeder Cameron Hallinan and friends, landing in a carpark area between the racecourse and the Castlereagh Highway…