The Great Eastern Steeplechase was an Australian Thoroughbred steeplechase horse race held annually at Oakbank, South Australia on Easter Saturday and Monday at the Oakbank Racecourse as part of the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival.
On October 1, 2021, it was announced that jumps racing will no longer be conducted in South Australia mainly due to the small number of South Australian jumps horses.
There were plans to run the Great Eastern and Von Doussa Steeplechase as a flat race.
[5] That would result in an election occurring which the anti-jumps faction won but debate surrounding that vote spilled into more legal action.
[6] But not long after the South Australian Government stepped in and outlawed jumps racing in the state.