Formed in 1848 and is the oldest racecourse in New Zealand.
Wanganui Jockey Club
Brett Printing & Publishing Co Ltd :With our compliments. [Sample book. 1920s?]
Date: 1920 - 1929
Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-1920s-01
Description: Booklet containing samples of printing techniques offered by the company, including lithography, chromolithography, photolithography. Includes a sample front cover of D W Jack (Whangarei) complete house furnishers catalogue, and a catalogue of O'Leary Bros & Downs Ltd seed merchants of Cook Street Auckland. Includes a sample logo of the Wanganui Jockey Club. O'Leary Bros & Downs Ltd catalogue cover is the same as that for 1918 (See Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Oleary-1918-01). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of six leaves, each 145 x 247 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in September 2001.
[Horse racing programmes and ephemera from the period 1920-1929].
Date: 1920 - 1929
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]
By: Auckland Racing Club; Avondale Jockey Club (Auckland, N.Z.); Bay of Plenty Jockey Club; Canterbury Jockey Club (Christchurch, N.Z.); Otaki-Māori Racing Club; Wanganui Jockey Club; Whangarei Racing Club; Wellington Racing Club; Wellington Trotting Club
Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1920s
Description: Includes: Auckland Racing Club programmes: 26 April 1920 (with HRH Prince of Wales -blue silk bound); 10 November 1920. Auckland Racing Club programmes for season 1928-1929. Auckland Racing Club. Programme for Autumn meeting 1929. Avondale Jockey Club. Autumn meeting. 10 April 1920. Programme. Avondale Jockey Club. Spring meeting, 2 October 1920. Programme (PR-07-0350) Avondale Jockey Club. Autumn meeting. 2 April 1921. Programme (PR-05-0405) Avondale Jockey Club. Spring meeting. 24 September 1921. Programme (PR-03-0339) Avondale Jockey Club. Autumn meeting. 24 April 1922. Programme (PR-03-0339) Avondale Jockey Club. Spring meeting. First day. 23 September 1922. Programme. Bay of Plenty Jockey Club. 21 March 1923. Programme. Canterbury Jockey Club. Race meeting at Riccarton in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales. 15 May 1920. Programme. Dannevirke meeting. 15 December 1920. Card / programme. Otaki Maori Racing Club. Spring meeting. Second day 21 September 1925. Official programme. Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1920-21. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1927-28. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1928-29. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1929-30. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Wanganui Jockey Club. Spring meeting. First day, 10 September 1925. Programme. Wellington Racing Club. Summer meeting at Trentham. Second day 22 January 1920. Programme. Wellington Racing Club. Invitiation card to opening of new grandstands at Trentham Race Course. 20, 22, 24 January 1925, Wellington Trotting Club. 14 January 1925. programme. Wellington Trotting Club. 17 September 1927. Programme. Woodville meeting. 8 December 1920. Paper slip / programme, with accompanying ticket for Oete and Woodville handicaps. Whangarei Racing Club. Annual meeting at Avondale. 13 October 1920. Programme. Quantity: 26 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Some purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007. Some donated by Mr J Yaldwyn in 1994. Processing information: Te Whaiti family loan, South Wairarapa Trotting Club 1927, combined into ATL-Group-00753.
Atkins & Bacon, architects :Wanganui Jockey Club. [Plans]. 1907.
Date: 1907
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Atkins & Bacon (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-090-020/030
Description: Includes plans for officials' quarters and members' stand, lawn and saddling paddock. Quantity: 11 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 670 x 1000 mm. Processing information: Folder number assigned by the Library.
Ephemera
Date: [1903]
From: Ranfurly family: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-9364-3
Description: Folder contains a small watercolour sketch on card for the Christchurch Club (cricket), 13 Aug 1903. Inscription reads `Floreat Etona - Stet fortuna domus'. Also annotated programme for a rachorse meeting at Wanganui. Races include the Wanganui Guineas and the Flying Handicap, no date. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material
[Two bound volumes of horse racing programmes from New Zealand racing clubs. 1900-1903]
Date: 1900 - 1903
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]
Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1900/1903-bound
Description: Contains programmes from Auckland Racing Club, Canterbury Jockey Club, Dunedin Jockey Club, Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, Taranaki Jockey Club, Wanganui Jockey Club, Wellington Racing Club, Avondale Jockey Club, Takapuna Jockey Club, Napier Park Jockey Club (1900-1901), Egmont Racing Club (1900-1901). Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Two volumes bound in maroon buckram, 185 x 135 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2005.
Whanganui racecourse
Date: 2 Aug 1949
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-21200-F
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Race meeting at Whanganui with stand and carriages
Date: [1870-1889]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-017104-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Group of men standing in front of a crowded grandstand on race day, Wanganui racecourse
Date: [ca 1880s]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/2-011862-F
Description: Copy of an original photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Other - This is a copy, made by the Alexander Turnbull Library, of a discarded 10x12 negative Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Wanganui Jockey Club
Date: circa 1875
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-017159-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui, showing unidentified people with horses at the Wanganui Jockey Club. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Young girls and a maypole, Wanganui Race Course
Date: ca 1910
From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)
Reference: 1/1-016686-G
Description: Girls, dressed in white, around a may-pole. There is a crowd of onlookers behind them. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Tesla Studio of Wanganui. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Race course at Whanganui
Date: [1870-1889]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-017109-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Race course at Wanganui, with grandstand and carriages
Date: [1870-1889]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-017105-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches