Australian Cottonweek Festival
The Australian Cotton Week Festival is held annually in March, recently winning the Outstanding Community of the Year Award. It is a fun filled event catering for all the family from golf days, family fun days, feature artists and race day. Don't miss it!

Country Races
If you enjoy country races then you will have plenty of opportunity in Dalby. There is the Newmarket Handicap in March, the Plough Inn Cup in April, the Picnic Races in May, just to name a few. See the events calendar for race dates throughout the year.

Pioneer Park Field Days are held in May and November each year.

Stock Horse Show
On the first Saturday of December each year, the Dalby Show grounds come alive with the largest Stock Horse Show and Sale in Australia, an event which attracts people from as far away as Victoria and Western Australia.

The two-day show and sale, organised by the Darling Downs branch of the Australian Stock Horse Society (ASHS), has been running for 24 years.

In 2000 the top horse was mare Warrenbri Lara from Charleville which sold for 36,000, a record for an Australian stock horse auction.

The Australian stock horse is a cross between the English thoroughbred and Spanish blood horses back in the days of the first fleet and the earliest European settlement. Later importations included more thoroughbreds, Arabs, and Timor arid Welsh Mountain ponies. The product of these crosses was called the ‘Waler’, which was used in the first World War.

Walk in the footsteps of Ludwig Leichhardt
Five Councils in the Western Downs, assisted by the Queensland Events
Regional Development Program, joined forces to host the first Ludwig
Leichhardt Expedition Exposition from 21 - 26 September 2004. Interested organisations, groups, individuals, schools and students were invited to take a part in this unique celebration of the explorer's ground-breaking trek 160 years ago, departing on October 1, 1844 from Jimbour Station when the determined, under-resourced 30-year-old Prussian scientist-explorer led his pioneering team on a 14-month trek to Port Essington (NT), paving the way for pastoral development.

See Dalby's Calendar of Events