Barellan hosts Good Old Days Festival featuring draught animals

The Good Old Days Festival is set to begin in Barellan, hosting Australia’s largest gathering of harnessed draught animals. The event honors the historical role of working animals in building the Australian bush.

Participants include Clydesdales, Australian Draughts, bullocks, camels, donkeys, mules, and goats. The festivities feature a parade on Yapunyah Street, demonstrations of yoking bullocks and harnessing camels, and the ‘Barellan Special,’ where a team consisting of a bullock, horse, camel, donkey, and mule pulls together.

Additionally, the festival includes the Bendigo Bank Billy Boiling Championships and historical displays, such as flatbed wagons stacked with wool being pulled by bullocks and camels from the settlement of Moombooldool.