the local rugby league teams play in the group 9 rugby league competition and include wagga brothers, south city and wagga kangaroos. the group 9 grand final is a major sport event in wagga wagga. rugby union teams include csu reddies, wagga agricultural college, wagga city and wagga waratahs in the southern inland rugby union. australian rules football clubs in wagga include collingullie-glenfield park, mangoplah-cookardinia united-eastlakes, turvey park and wagga tigers in the riverina football league and east wagga-kooringal, north wagga and rivcoll(csu) in the farrer football league. wagga soccer teams include henwood park, wagga united, tolland and lake albert, with the first grade competition for men being the "pascoe cup" and for women the "leonard cup". the "wagga wagga gold cup", said to be australia's second oldest thoroughbred horse race, is held in the first week of may.