SEVENTH NIGHT COURSE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 22

SEVENTH NIGHT COURSE

Addington Raceway is the seventh racecourse to be converted to night trotting in New Zealand. The Auckland Trotting Club held its first night meeting at Alexandra Park Raceway on December 31, 1958, and has since been joined by the Franklin and Thames clubs, which race at night on this course. The Wellington Trotting Club held its first night meeting on February 27, 1960, at Hutt Park Raceway, the course now also used by the Otaki and Masterton clubs. The Forbury Park Trotting Club was the first to hold a night totalisator meeting in the South Island, its inaugural meeting being held on January 26, 1961, a few weeks before the Waikato Trotting Club started night racing at Claudelands on March 4, 1961. The Wanganui and Manawatu clubs race on a new trotting course known as Manawatu Raceway, the first night meeting there being held on November 21, 1962. The Greymouth Trotting Club became the second night trotting club in the South Island when it held its inaugural night meeting on October 24 last