The Santa Teresa community in Central Australia celebrated its feast day – the feast of St Therese of Lisieux - recently in true Aussie fashion, by hosting a race meeting which attracted people from right around the local outback area.
The Santa Teresa Races are a fixture on the outback racing calendar and they are part of a weekend of celebrations for the feast day of the community's patron saint.
Parish Priest, Fr Prakash Menezes SVD says people came from not only Santa Teresa, but also other communities at Hermannsburg, Wallace Rockhole and Walkabout Bore.
"The people look forward to it out here," Fr Prakash says. "One of the beautiful things about it is that all the families come from all around and camp out around the race course, so it's a great social gathering.