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Respected Toowoomba Turf Club chief executive officer Blair Odgers has resigned to take up the post of CEO of the Pakenham Racing Club in Victoria.
TTC chairman Kent Woodford said the club was sad to see Odgers leave the Darling Downs .
"Blair made many significant contributions for the betterment of the Toowoomba Turf Club. We wish him the very best for his next chapter," he said.
"Pakenham Racing Club is very lucky to secure his services."
Woodford said Odgers had been instrumental inthe elevation of the Weetwood Handicap as a metropolitan meeting.
"We are thrilled that the Toowoomba Turf Club has produced another racing administrator that is moving on to bigger and better things. We are very proud that one of our own has learned his craft here," he said.
TAB has renewed a five-year sponsorship agreement with Racing Victoria and Werribee Racing Club covering signage and naming rights to the International Horse Centre at Werribee racecourse that serves as the quarantine facility and training base for overseas horses targeting the spring carnival.
The TAB International Horse Centre will be home to 38 horses from Japan, Ireland and England over the next six weeks.
The agreement runs until 2023 and also includes an extension of TAB's long-standing sponsorship of the Werribee Cup in December.
WRC general manager Adam Wilkinson said: "The TAB Werribee Cup is the premier sporting event in the City of Wyndham and we are delighted to have our naming rights partner committed to us for a further five years.
"This partnership is critical to the club as we expand our footprint in one of the fastest growing municipalities in Australia and we look forward to our ongoing association with the TAB."