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Aussie club to race hotties like horses

An Australian horse racing club will lock bikini-clad women in barrier stalls and run them down the racecourse as part of a controversial new novelty event, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported Tuesday.

The Gold Coast Turf Club in the state of Queensland launched the event, which is planned to become an annual fixture at the club's first race meeting of the summer season.

Some believe this will take the popular tourist destination to a new tacky low. In a Gold Coast Bulletin poll, 39 percent of respondents said the gimmick was degrading — while 61 percent disagreed.

Up to 150 women, who must wear bikinis and running shoes, will compete through a knockout system for a first prize of AU$5,000 (US$4,800).

The event was copied from America's famed Hollywood Park racecourse, which holds a similar event annually.

Turf Club chief executive Grant Sheather acknowledged some may see the event as degrading, but said it would be done in "good taste."

''When people say 'Gold Coast' you think of beach, you think of girls and you think of bikinis; it's a marketing ploy to build racing," he said.

 

Sounds like some good clean fun to me

 

if it's anything like the LFL i'm down with it.

 

my sister lives in Gold Coast. gotta go "visit family"

 

i think i might live in the wrong country.

 

ttiwwop

 

True it would be better with pictures, but I don't believe the event has happened yet. Since this will be their 1st event (and they hope to make it an annual event apparently) it looks like no pictures are available yet.

 

they gotta promote it tho right??

 

thats pretty bad, if they couldnt even get a girl in for a promo picture. "Here, stand in this mud/manure...now this little 135lb Puerto Rican is gonna jump on your back...alright now get on all fours...get some manure on your chin too...yeahhhhh thats it"