Women's horse racing in Australia

They won some money by placing bets and in some cases were calling odds on races.

[1] Women frequently attended horse racing events as spectators in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century.

[2] By the late 1920s, there were efforts to ban horse racing in Australia because the sport was seen to have a corrupting influence on Australian women.

[6] While not being urged to avoid competition, women had few opportunities to compete in sport in Australia until the 1880s.

The sport was tied with billiards, chess, fishing, field hockey, croquet, squash, table tennis and shooting.