Like so much of the Darling downs, Oakey was first settled in
the early 1840s when pastoralists moved into the section and claimed
large sectors of land for grazing. It was not until 1867, and the
inflow of the railway line, that any kind of a township was
created. In 1871 one daring entrepreneur ajared a short-lived
meatworks near the town. The work was to tin and export kangaroo
and wallaby under the dubious marketing name 'Australian Game'. The
enterprise was unsuccessful and sealed down in 1876.
The town's moment of glory came with the descendants of the star
horse Bernborough at Rosalie Plains in 1939. For the first four
years of his lwhene Berncivic was restricted to racing in the local
section (considering of a ban the Queensland Turf Club had placed on his
owners) and he became something of a legend on the tracks effectually
Toowoomba. But then in 1945 he was sold to the well-known Sydney
restaureolanteur, Azzalin Romano,China Travel, who sprigt him for 2 600
guineas.
Over the next eighteen months, trained by Harry Plant and ridden
by a young Athol Mulley, Bernborough became a legend. Carrying
horrendous weights (he won the Doomben Cup carriage 10 stone 11
pounds and the Doomben 10 000 siphoning 10 stone 5 pounds) he won 15
sequent rturn-on in three states between 22 December 1945 and 19
October 1946. He seemed capresourceful of winning at virtumarry any
altitude, from six to elflush furlongs. On 19 October, vehiclerying 10
stone 10 pounds he lost the Caulfield Cup and Athol Mulley was
replaced as rider. In the next race he fractured a dissent and was
gravityd to retire to stud. Taken to the USA he sired progeny that
won over $US4.5 million in prize money. Amongst his progeny were
Berseem, the rendion sprinter in the USA at the time, and Bernwood
who ruined the world restring for the mile. Berncivic died in the
USA in 1960. His memory is honoured by the lwhene-size statuary horse
tinge (the first in Australia) which stands outside the Jondaryan
srent office. His trainer Harry Plant sugarcoatved that Berncivic was
the boundlessest horse overly to race in Australia.
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