The Carrick Park Pacing Club will celebrate 170 years of racing at the East Street racecourse with the annual Carrick Cup this Saturday.

And, to ensure the club can celebrate plenty of milestones in the future, volunteers hope the public gets behind the last meeting of the year.

Carrick Park Pacing Club president Leigh Dornauf said it was the passion of the volunteer committee that stopped the club going the way of other country racing clubs in Tasmania.

"The current and previous committees have been able to continue the club for so many years. We're very privileged to keep it going for the next generations," he said.

"If it wasn't for the volunteers, it wouldn't be able to continue.

"We need people to come out and support us. It's the last meeting for the season so it's a chance to show that we still need country racing."

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The racecourse in Carrick is one of the oldest continual tracks in Australia - but it was not always just for pacers.

Gallopers also competed and the club was originally called the Carrick Racing Club, established in 1848. It was not until Boxing Day in 1849 the club held its first meeting at the East Street site, after relocating from a boggy area on the Bass Highway.

In 1912, the club folded and its assets were purchased by the Carrick Hack and Trotting Club until the number of gallopers declined and it became a trotters-only affair.

The Carrick and Westbury trotting clubs combined in 1976 to form the Carrick Park Trotting Club, later to be renamed the pacing club.

The club will celebrate the occasion with Fashions on the Field, a double-seated sulky race, celebrity pony race, live music, free face painting and a yearling sale - the only sale of standardbred yearlings in Tasmania in 2019.

Racing is from 3.15pm to 7.10pm.

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