mid-week race meeting as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for the Dog on the Tuckerbox. The feature race at the meeting was the Snake Gully Flying Handicap, a 1000 metres. The Snake Gully Flying Handicap remained as the feature race of the club's November meeting for the next two years. In 1984 the club applied for TAB status for the 1985 meeting when the proposal was to conduct the first Snake Gully Cup over 1400 metres. The application was unsuccessful. This was the beginning of the Snake Gully Cup in its current format. In 1990 the club once again applied for TAB status for the Cup and were successful in securing this for the 1992 Cup. From that date the Cup has only been conducted on a Friday. The second day of the meet is called 'Hair of the Dog' and is a more family orientated race day. Gundagai had a 'Mud Muster' put on by the Nowra Mud, Sweat and Beers people, held on 2 April 2016, sponsored by Gundagai Shire Council. The event involves digging large mud pits throughout the highly significant and documented Aboriginal ceremonial ground on the North Gundagai Common and filling those very large and deep holes with water. Then hundreds of competitors wallow through these pits and other obstacles. The town's rugby league team competed in the Maher Cup. The Turning Wave Festival (a music and cultural festival celebrating Irish and Celtic migration to Australia) was held in Gundagai up to 2011, but moved to Yass in 2012. Council merger Gundagai and Cootamundra shires were in 2016 forced to amalgamate into the Cootamundra–Gundagai Regional Council, against the wishes of the Mayor of Gundagai, Abb McAlister, and many of the town's businesspeople. Signs protesting the amalgamation, sponsored by the Gundagai Council in Exile, have been prominently displayed throughout Gundagai for several years. Five years on, the problems associated with the merger remained an issue. The Councils were demerged in 2022. See also Gundagai lore References Notes Further reading Gard, Stephen. Once Upon a Hume, Volumes IV and V. Bluedawe Books, 2019. External links Niagara Cafe in Gundagai listed for sale Towns in the Riverina Populated places on the Murrumbidgee River Mining towns in New South Wales