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Clubs and courses: racing clubs

Club Established
Ashburton Racing Club 1878
Auckland Racing Club 1874 (merger of Auckland Jockey Club (1853) and Auckland Turf Club (1873))
Avondale Jockey Club 1889
Banks Peninsula Racing Club 1912 (as Peninsula Racing Club)
Beaumont Racing Club 1891 (as Beaumont Jockey Club)
Cambridge Jockey Club 1944 (as Cambridge Picnic Racing Club)
Canterbury Jockey Club 1854
Canterbury Racing 2005 (merger of Amberley, Hororata (by 1875), North Canterbury (1875) and Riccarton Turf clubs)
Central Otago Racing Club 1885 (as Vincent Jockey Club)
Counties Racing Club 1919 (as Franklin Racing Club)
Dargaville Racing Club 1914 (as Northern Wairoa Racing Club)
Egmont Racing Club 1882
Feilding Jockey Club 1879
Foxton Racing Club 1854
Gore Racing Club 1889
Greymouth Jockey Club 1867
Hawke's Bay Racing Incorporated 1874
Kumara Racing Club 1887
Kurow Jockey Club By 1882
Levin Racing Club 1884 (as Horowhenua Hack Racing Club)
Manawatu Racing Club 1880
Marlborough Racing Club 1880
Marton Jockey Club 1886
Masterton Racing Club 1872
Matamata Racing Club Around 1920
Oamaru Jockey Club 1890 (as North Otago Jockey Club)
Otago Racing Club 1860 (as Otago Jockey Club)
Otaki-Maori Racing Club 1886
Paeroa Racing Club 1877 (as Ohinemuri Jockey Club) (closed July 2012)
Pakuranga Hunt 1872
Poverty Bay Turf Club 1870
Racing Rotorua 1897 (as Rotorua Jockey Club)
Racing Taupo No data
Racing Tauranga 1873 (as Bay of Plenty Jockey Club)
Racing Te Aroha Possibly by 1880
Rangitikei Racing Club 1857 (as Rangitikei-Marton Racing Club)
Reefton Jockey Club 1877
Riverton Racing Club 1886
Rotorua-Bay of Plenty Hunt 1932
South Canterbury Racing Club 2007 (merger of Geraldine Racing Club (around 1884) and Timaru Racing Club (1875)) (previously South Canterbury Jockey Club)
South Waikato Racing Club No data
Southland Racing Club 1887 (merger of Invercargill Racing Club (1885) and Southland Amateur Turf Club (1885))
Stratford Racing Club 1891
Tapanui Racing Club Around 1869
Taranaki Thoroughbred Racing 1874 (as Taranaki Jockey Club)
Taumarunui Racing Club 1947 (as Taumarunui Picnic Hack Racing Club)
Thames Jockey Club 1868
Waikato Racing Club 1873 (as Waikato Turf Club)
Waikouaiti Racing Club Around the 1880s
Waimate Racing Club 1880 (merger of Waimate Steeplechase Club (1876) and Waimate Hack Racing Club (around 1876))
Waipa Racing Club 1915
Waipukurau Jockey Club 1884
Wairarapa Racing Club 1864 (as Wairarapa Jockey Club)
Wairio Jockey Club 1885
Wairoa Racing Club 1879
Wanganui Jockey Club 1848
Waverley Racing Club 1874 (as Waverley-Waitotara Racing Club)
Wellington Racing Club 1865 (as Wellington Jockey Club)
Westland Racing Club 1866
Whakatane Racing Club 1958
Whangarei Racing Club 1910
Winton Jockey Club Established by 1875
Woodville-Pahiatua Racing Club 1986 (merger of Pahiatua Racing Club (1891) and Woodville District Jockey Club (1882))
Wyndham Racing Club Around 1891

This table lists the racing clubs in New Zealand in 2012.

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Sources: NZRacing; John Costello, Tapestry of turf: the history of New Zealand racing. 1840–1987. Auckland: Moa Publications, 1988

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Mary Mountier, Horse and greyhound racing – Racing clubs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/38939/clubs-and-courses-racing-clubs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mary Mountier, published 30 January 2013, updated 1 November 2015.