An Australian horse race arena has caused
great controversy when it announced it will be hosting an annual horse race for
women dressed only in bikinis.
When they came up with the idea of a
women’s horse race, the guys at The Gold Coast Turf Club in
Queensland, Australia probably thought something like “if guys come to the race
track to see horses run, just imagine how many of them will come to see
beautiful women dressed in skimpy bikinis do the
exact same thing.” The Bikini Track Sprint is scheduled to take place on
December 4, with over 150 girls racing for the prize of 5,000 Australian
dollars.
Believe it or not, in a poll conducted by
a local tourism website, just 27% percent of voter said they find his kind of
event degrading for women, while the other 73% were perfectly alright with it.
Even the members of Women in Racing, a Gold-Coast group that promotes racing,
said they can think of better ways of marketing races, but they’ll back anything
that has something to do with racing.
The chairman of The Gold Coast Turf Club
agrees there will be a few raised eyebrows at the event, but that the club will
do everything in its power to attract really competitive girls and give the
audience a real race.
The Bikini Track Sprint isn’t really an
original idea. The American horse track Hollywood Park, in California has been
organizing similar events for quite some time, and their success probably
inspired the Australian race track to come up with their very own horse
race for
beautiful women in bikinis.
   
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