David Innes Watt ¹

   Another name for David was David James Watt.

  General Notes:

David Innes Watt Family

18 carat gold cup

The Tirranna Picnic Race Club Challenge Cup was first presented in 1895. Mr David Innes Watt won the cup in 1899 with his horse Loch Leven, in 1904 with Chiefswood and in 1906 with Pleasure. With his third win, he earned the right to retain the gold cup in perpetuity.

Crafted by Hardy Brothers Jewelers, the Tirranna Picnic Race Club Challenge Cup was awarded for the main race. In 1895 the gold cup was valued at ?150.

From the early days of colonisation, picnic races have been a feature of rural life. Country people traveled long distances to these annual gatherings, some of which continued for several days and were accompanied by wild celebrations. The Tirranna Picnic Races were established in 1855 at Tirranna, a property outside Goulburn, New South Wales. In 1872 the railway from Sydney reached Goulburn, making the Tirranna Picnic Races more accessible to Sydney racing enthusiasts and by 1875, Tirranna was thought to be one of the best race tracks in the colony. The Governor attended with due pomp and ceremony, along with other socialites and people of influence and the meeting was widely reported in the Sydney press, as were the fashionable gowns worn at the associated balls and dances. ⁴

  Noted events in his life were:

� Other: 1911, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia. ⁴ Apparently, David Innes Watt was the owner of a horse named Cisco that won the 1911 AJC Derby and finished 13th in the Melbourne cup around the same time. I also found a piece regarding his involvement with the Tirranna Picnic Races.

� Registration: Death, 1924, Woollahra District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵

David married Emmeline Maude Blackman, daughter of Samuel Alfred Blackman and Charlotte Smith, on 20 Feb 1884 in Mudgee, Wellington County, New South Wales.^{1 2} (Emmeline Maude Blackman was born on 16 Nov 1860 in Mudgee, Wellington County, New South Wales ^{1 6} and died on 9 Aug 1952 in Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Mudgee, St John The Baptist.