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Stawell Gift 2025: silk singlets, a power blackout and Gout Gout add to fun of historic race

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The Stawell Gift is Australia ’s oldest running race.

It has now been run 143 times, going back to the formative years of the town in the midst of the gold rushes of the 19th century .

The 17-year-old ran 19.84s over 200 m in Perth last weekend , flew back to Brisbane for three days of school, then flew to Victoria .

The attendance at Central Park on Monday was 5,827 around double who came last year .

Gout was able to wear the logo of the beer company which sponsored the race.

He did not get close to winning, but spent minutes signing autographs and posing for selfies.

He hugged the day ’s star performer Bree Rizzo , who did something even Gout couldn’t do, from scratch.

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