Night-time trotting was introduced to New Zealand in 1958, after being successfully tried in Australia and the US. It was well patronised, as this photograph of a 1959 meeting at Alexandra Park in Auckland shows.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)
Reference:
PAColl-8163-85
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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