Hookemup – the Black Caviar of camel racing – will again line-up at Towac Park for Sunday’s annual Give Me Five For Kids Orange Camel Races, with $1500 up for grabs for the best camel in 2017.

The blerping and bumping legend of the dromedary world was the main attraction during last year’s running of the charity event, beefing up his racing resume by making it 21 wins in 22 starts after dominating the Orange races.

Now before the racing purists pitch-fork the event and remind everyone the great Black Caviar didn’t even come close to losing a race, the sheer unpredictability of camels speaks – or in this case grunts, moans and spits – volumns about the sort of racer Hookemup is.

He’s even gunning for a fourth straight Forbes Cup at their event on Good Friday.

Last year’s race caller Graham Bannister labelled the humped sprinter “a fair dinkum sensation”.

“One of the great camels,” Orange camel expert Murray Horstman added, backing up Bannister’s claims from 2016.

“He’s part of the Donny Ainsley stable from Uluru … we’ve got them coming from everywhere, now that I mention it.

“There’s camels coming from Uluru, South Australia, Rockhampton … I just got off the phone with Richo, he’s on his way from Yeppoon now.”

Richo is, of course, John Richardson, the camel racing icon that’s been giving his all to the unusual sport for three decades.

From Central Queensland, Richo will head to Forbes then Orange for the Easter weekend, and Horstman said the prizemoney on offer during the Towac Park event was essentially to say thanks for the epic trip to race camels.

“We pay a little bit of prizemoney for each race … the idea is to ensure each of the owners that travels the distance to be here leaves with a couple of bob in their pocket.”

There’s four heats for the Orange Cup on Sunday, with first and second progressing through to the main race.

There will be a Consolation Cup, Plate and Battlers Cup races for those that don’t make the main event, with prizemoney on offer for all races.

Horstman said, aside from Hookemup, there’s plenty of quality in the 2017 fields.

Richo’s Wookatook one of the main hopes, while Horstman’s little goer Orange has prepared well, if you ask his trainer.

“He’s not a bad little camel,” Horstman said.

“They’ll spit at you and kick you, but he’s a good one.”