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Mackay Tourism is confident the festival’s return is ‘looking good’ despite a councillor saying its revival would be like ‘flogging a dead horse’.

Premium Content Subscriber only Once attracting up to 5000 people, the Mackay Beach Horse Racing Festival might never return to the region. The unique event has been on hiatus since 2018 after Purple Betty Productions, which ran the 2017 races, said fence-jumpers “killed” her small family-owned business. Mackay Regional Councillor Alison Jones said reviving the event could be “flogging a dead horse” and questioned at the ordinary meeting on Wednesday whether the council sho...