After a record 60 years selling betting tickets on Brisbane racetracks, retiring Tabcorp worker Geraldine Evans says the Fine Cotton ring-in is the day she remembers best.

"Everyone was in a frenzy, the whole track was going crazy," said Evans, a sprightly 81-year-old who first began selling win and place tickets from the old Doomben St Leger Tote House on May 8, 1954.

"It is hard to think it is 30 years ago in August. But I will never forget it."

The Fine Cotton affair at Eagle farm in 1984 came half way through a career spanning more than six decades, with Evans set to walk off the track for the last time at Eagle Farm on June 25 as the longest-serving ticket seller, leaving behind thousands of friends, and satisfied punters.

"Name a track (around Brisbane) and at some stage I have sold tickets there," she said.

"In the hey-day we would work at Doomben or Eagle Farm, the Albion Park trots, the `Gabba dogs and all the provincial tracks."

When she started in the 1950s Evans worked at "sell" and "payout" windows, as there was no computer totalizator and no off-course TAB.

"The dividends often took 20 minutes to calculate so the lines to get paid could be very long," she said.

"But as the years rolled by more betting types were introduced.

"These days with computers we sell and pay on a huge number of bet types including trifectas, quinellas, etc on all meetings."

A familiar face to thousands of Brisbane punters for so many years, the best horses Evans has seen include Lucky Ring in the 1940s and 50s, Strawberry Road in the 1980s, Chief de Beers in the late 1990s, and Black Caviar in more recent times.

But it is the human side of the racetracks she will miss the most.

"The friendships that I have been lucky enough to make, they have literally been for a lifetime," she said.

Those who know and have worked with Evans estimate she would have sold about 14 million tickets during her career, with mistakes that could be counted on one hand.

Evans will continue her interest in racing in her retirement, but she will have her more time to spend with her five children and 11 grandchildren.