With 2019 the year of Outback Tourism Boulia will welcome hordes of travellers to experience what has become a 'bucket-list' event.

Boulia welcome the annual population boom the races bring, a tourism draw card since 1997.

Country favourite Travis Collins headlines the 2019 music line up on Saturday night, with Bridget O'Shannessy, Owen Blundell and 'Dustier Than Ever' - a Tribute to Slim Dusty.

The races lure professional camel racing teams who come to win the 1500m Quality Electrical Qld Boulia Camel Cup. Cameleers covet it as the longest, toughest and most prestigious camel race in Australia.

The 2018 races saw a huge result for NSW jockey Chontelle Jannese, who won eight out of eight races including the 1500m Final. Modestly Chontelle was quick to point out the Cup Final glory belonged to winning camel Uncle Bob and his trainer Rod Sansom. The win is Uncle Bob's second triumph, having won in 2014 when he was trained by Boulia camel trainer Tom Woodhouse.

Chontelle and Rod are from the Oakfield Ranch Camel Racing Team in Newcastle where they operate beach camel ride tours. Each winter they trade the beach for the bush and follow the Outback Queensland Camel Racing Circuit, from Bedourie to Boulia to Winton.

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Jockey Chontelle resigned from her job as a case manager in Disabilities and Mental Health last year, so she could follow the Outback camel racing circuit - a gamble that paid off.

Describing the win, Chontelle said "we had a good start, Bob had a good run... but then he gets a bit lazy when he hits the crowd, he started trotting and I think everyone cheers too much for him and he's got a bit of an ego 'old Bob'!"

Chontelle said the camel had got better with age, "Bob has matured mentally a bit too, his head is in the game and he likes racing."

Camel jockeys typically come from a horse-riding background, but no so for Chontelle who admits "I had a horses when I was little, but I was a dressage rider and they tell me that doesn't count, but then I did nothing for about 10 or 15 years until I got on camels."

She describes being "terrified for the first few runs and I honestly still get quite nervous on race day", but six years on racing camels is well and truly in her blood and Chontelle is part of a changing trend that has seen female jockeys which were once a rarity, now increasing and often dominating the wins on the racing circuit.

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