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An early trotting meeting

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An early trotting meeting

This advertisement promotes one of the first trotting meetings held in New Zealand, at Whanganui in June 1881 (although the illustration, strangely, shows horses galloping). The race 'for vehicles drawn by two horses' proved to be a passing fad.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Wanganui Chronicle, 19 May 1881, p. 4

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Mary Mountier, Horse and greyhound racing – Development of harness racing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/39002/an-early-trotting-meeting (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mary Mountier, published 30 November 2012, updated 1 November 2015.