Portal:Australia/Featured picture/Week 19, 2007
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Horseracing is the third most popular spectator sport in Australia, behind Australian rules football and rugby league, with almost 2 million admissions to the 379 racecourses throughout Australia in 2002–03. It is administered nationally by the Australian Racing Board, with the Australian Rules of Racing applying in each state.
![Horses race on grass at the 2006 Tambo Valley Races in Swifts Creek, Victoria.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tambo_valley_races_2006_edit.jpg/640px-Tambo_valley_races_2006_edit.jpg)
Photo credit: Fir0002