With a 'pop of colour' fashion theme adding to the sunny afternoon, Blackall started off the western Queensland spring racing carnival in fine style.

A 64-year-old Millmerran man has died in a crash on the Leichhardt Highway south of Miles.

The Droughtmaster continues to tick all the right boxes for the Davies family whove been using the breed successfully in their commercial cattle operation on The Nobbies, 100km north of Cloncurry, for more than 25 years.