In a first for the NSW racing club, Queanbeyan's biggest annual meeting will offer participants $265,000 across eight races, including $45,000 for its historic 2000m Cup. Horses will race for $35,000 in the Thunderbolt sprint and the Golden Nugget, while every other race will be worth $30,000.

Queanbeyan Racing Club chief Brendan Comyn said it would be the largest race meeting at the track in recent memory.

"They tell me it was of 80,000 dollars once upon a time, but that was way back in the 80s when they were spending money like men with no alms," Comyn said.

"It's a bit of a reward - we haven't been granted one [a showcase meeting] before. We've been good little soldiers of recent times. We took Canberra's meeting, and did them a favour, we took a meeting last year from Goulburn because of wet weather.

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"[It should attract] the second stringers for [Gai] Waterhouses and Bjorn Bakers and whatever else means you get pretty good horses for around here.

"It'll make it a bit harder for the locals to win but it'll also increase our betting turnover. You win one and you lose on the other one."

Queanbeyan lay dormant over the winter but has been rapidly called back into action, most recently last on August 24 when it hosted a transferred Canberra meeting.

It hosts an industry only meeting on September 7, where only essential personnel will be permitted on track, and has taken on the $34,000 Federal Handicap which would've been run at Thoroughbred Park this Friday, had that meeting not been abandoned due to the ACT's lockdown.