![Stacey Wrignt and Rosie Nott of Narromine. Stacey Wrignt and Rosie Nott of Narromine.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-agfeed/2065118.jpg/r0_0_1024_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
MORE than 900 people attended the annual Tottenham Picnic Race Club earlier this month to enjoy warm weather, six races and country hospitality.
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"You have to look after them (trainers, strappers, jockeys and owners) as they are here to put on the show for us," said treasurer of the Tottenham Picnic Race Club (and secretary of the NSW Picnic Race Club Association) Deidre Adam as she served sandwiches and cool drinks to attendees in the stable area of the tie-up stalls on the day.
The Tottenham Picnic Race Club was reformed in 1988, Deidre Adam, her husband Russell, and another local Tony Cook included among the original volunteers since its first meet in 1989.
Colin and Judy Richards - both long serving committee people of the Nyngan Jockey Club (NJC) - were amoung the crowd of spectators taking in the atmosphere.
While Colin is a former NJC president, Judy recently retired after 43 years as secretary of the NJC.
Judy said she thinks it is about time the "younger ones" took over, and at which they have a new secretary of the NJC, Wendy (Parry) Robb.
"We (NJC) used to have about six meetings a year, now it is one," she said.
Family of the late Reece Potter, who tragically lost his life in a race fall at the track three years before, were track side, the jockey's Mother Vicki Williams, North Richmond, sponsoring the Reece Potter Memorial Cup, a Class B Handicap won by Zoot Scoot and trained at Narromine by Lindsey Kennedy.
The Tottenham Picnic Race Club presented the family with a one metre memorial plaque of a series of horse-shoes encircling a photo of Reece Potter.
Poker Pro, trained by Kevin White, Cowra, took the Western Farm Machinery 2014 Tottenham Picnic Cup Trophy race.