Places

Date: 1975 - 1976

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1975/1976

Description: Includes: 1975: Manawatu Racing Club. Summer meeting held at Awapuni. 3rd day, Saturday 27th December 1975. Programme; also slipped in is a Lady's members' stand ticket (pale yellow oval, on string) and a betting ticket for Race 4: $1 for a place on horse 6 New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase Centennial. Willowbridge, Waimate, Sunday May 18 1975. Souvenir programme (2 copies) Centennial celebrations of New Zealand's greatest jumping race, the centennial of the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase. Willowbridge, Waimate on 18th May 1975. Programme [for 17-19 May events] 1976: Masterton Racing Club (Inc) Spring meeting. Masterton Racecourse, 9 October 1976. Complimentary lady's or gent's [yellow ticket] Taranaki Jockey Club. Centennial meeting. First day, 8 March 1976. Official card ERC (Egmont Racing Club; at Hawera Racecourse). Visitor admittance to Members' stand (pink tag on string) You are invited to create the Autumn Festival Banquet Dinner to be held at the Racecourse at 7.00pm. Monday 22nd March 1976. RSVP Mrs Carolyn Milton phone 74-147. Admission: Part of the Banquet [Location unknown] WRC Inc. Stewards' enclosure Main grandstand, Autumn meeting 1976. Tag on green and white string The 1976/77 Lion punter's diary, written and edited by Barry O'Reilly Quantity: 11 items (and 1 duplicate). Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources, including one item donated by Maree Moxon in 1999; two ticket tags donated by Cmndr Denis Fairfax in 2013. Transfers: Collection received in Ephemera. Annual reports and various monographs to Published for appraisal.

Date: 1980 - 1983

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1980/1983

Description: Includes: 1981: Raceweek. Your local with the compliments of Clyde Quay Tavern, Garry Ward (leasee). Vol 8 no. 3, for Saturday August 22, 1981. Garry's tip [for Foxton fields] Wairarapa Racing Club [Tauherenikau Races]. One machine-produced totalisator ticket each for 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th races. 1982: Your guide to Jetbet; introducing a speedier service for TAB customers [Guide booklet] Masterton Racing Club (Inc). Spring meeting, Saturday 9th October 1982. Programme TAB; the race pack. It's a great way to spend a buck. You bet! [Booklet. 1982] (2 copies) Wellington Racing Club Inc. First summer meeting 1982. Trentham, 1st day. Saturday 27 November 1982. [Programme] Wellington Racing Club Inc. First summer meeting 1982. Trentham, 2nd day. Upper Hutt Community Day, 4 December 1982. [Programme] 1983: Canterbury Jockey Club. Phar Lap Day, Friday 9th December 1983. Official programme Jetbet sell-pay on-course bet slips. They are simple, fast, accurate, confidential. Jetbet with Bet Slips [Wallet with pamphlet, betting form and 2 tickets inside] New Zealand's turf legacy ... a proud history preserved for the future. National Racing Museum Auckland. pamphlet 1984: Victoria Racing Club. Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Melbourne Cup. Flemington, Tuesday November 6 1984. Official programme 1985: Phar Lap National Museum [Pamphlet produxced by the National Museum of New Zealand 1985] ca 1988: Totalisator Agency Board bettor pack, with the compliments of TAB [White plastic wallet with a yellow card for the Melbourne Cup, yellow card listing location of betting shops, a Jetbet card, a biro with an Intertrack logo on it; and three pamphlets published by the TAB: Bet types; Racing jargon; How to slip bet] Quantity: 9 items (and one duplicate). Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources.

Date: 1944 - 1949

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Racing Club

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1944/1949

Description: Includes: 1944: Auckland Racing Club. Programmes for season 1944-1945 1945: Auckland Racing Club. Programmes for mid-spring meeting, summer meeting and midsummer meeting, 1945-1946 1949: Manawatu Racing Club. Awapuni Racecourse Palmerston North. Autumn meeting, second day 2 April 1949. Official card 1949: New Zealander! Awake! Don't be caught napping! Why the churches and welfare organisations oppose the proposal for off-course betting. Compiled by Rev J D Salmond, Rev L G Geering, Rev A H Ivory [1949] 1949: Wellington Racing Club summer meeting, first day, 22 January 1949. Official card [ie Programme] 1949: Wellington Racing Club Autumn meeting 1949, 1st day. Lady's pass [pale green card] Quantity: 6 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1950s

Description: Includes: 1950: Wellington Racing Club. Summer meeting, first day, 21 January 1950. Official card 1951: Inter-Dominion championship pacing & trotting carnival. Christchurch, 10-24 Feb 1951. Programme booklet 1951: Wairarapa Racing Club autumn meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. Second day, 26 March 1951. Official programme 1952: Wairarapa Racing Club summer meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. First day, 1 January 1952. Official programme 1953: Auckland Racing Club. Programmes for season 1953-1954 [Several programmes in one booklet] 1954: Royal Cup Meeting in the most distinguished presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Trentham Racecourse, Thursday 14 January 1954. [Programme] 1954: 1954-55 racing and trotting meetings, with the compliments of the Auckland Star. [Green folded card] 1955: Masterton Racing Club. Wairarapa Spring meeting. Race tickets (see child record) 1955: Wairarapa Racing Club summer meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. First day, 1 January 1955. Official programme 1955: 1955/56 trotting and racing fixtures (folded pink card) 1957: T.A.B. 5th annual ball. Majestic Cabaret, 3 July 1957. [Programme] 1958: Banks Peninsula Trotting Club. Motukarara, 11 October 1958. Official programme 1959: Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. Centwennial banquet - ball. Metropolitan Trotting Club kiosk, Addington, 11 April 1959 [Programme with gold cover, and printed throughout in gilt lettering] 1959: Thames Jockey Club. Ninetieth anniversary meeting, 3 Janaury 1959. Official card [programme] Quantity: 14 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources.

Date: 1972 - 1974

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1972/1974

Description: Includes: 1970s?: Tattersall's Special Cup consultation. First prize $120,000 for $4.00. Herald Gravure printers 1970s?: Tattersall's special $125,000 cash consultation. First prize $125,000. Herald Gravure printers 1972: Waipukurau Jockey Club. Woodville Racecourse Autumn meeting 8 April 1972. Visitors' stand only [Pale blue ticket] 1972: Invercargill Trotting Club. New Zealand meeting. First day 15 January 1972. Official card [programme booklet] 1972: Auckland Trotting Club (Inc). Cup meeting. Alexandra Park Raceway Epsom, 3rd day, 30 December 1972. Programme 1973: Castlepoint Racing Club (Inc). Centennial beach race meeting, 24 March 1973. Programme 1973: New Zealand Racing Conference. Racing fixtures [and] trotting fixtures 1973-1974 [Booklet] 1974: Castlepoint Racing Club (Inc). Beach annual race meeting. Saturday March 30th, 1974. Owing to tide, starting at approx 12.30 pm. (blue cover of programme only) 1974: Victoria Racing Club. Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Melbourne Cup. Flemington, 5 Novewmber 1974. Official programme 1974: 100th anniversary of the Wellington Cup. Trentham, 19 January 1974. Programme 1974?: Rothmans Pall Mall New Zealand racing and trotting almanac [1974] Quantity: 10 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - PAColl-8307.

Date: 1984 - 1989

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1984/1989

Description: Includes: 1984: Victoria Racing Club. Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Melbourne Cup. Flemington, Tuesday November 6 1984. Official programme Wellington Racing Club. Winter 1984 Members gate pass [Yellow ticket] 1985: Phar Lap National Museum [Pamphlet produxced by the National Museum of New Zealand 1985] Wellington Racing Club Inc. Wellington Free Ambulance Service Inc Charity Race Day. Saturday 7 December 1985. [Programme] 1986: Matamata Racing Club. Waikato Stud Limited. September 5 1986. Entrance ticket, invitation and circular letter Wellington Racing Club. 1986 summer meeting, 3rd day, January 25. [Programme] Wellington Racing Club Inc. Wellington Free Ambulance Service Inc Charity Race Day, 6 December 1986. Programme ca 1988: Totalisator Agency Board bettor pack, with the compliments of TAB [White plastic wallet with a yellow card for the Melbourne Cup, yellow card listing location of betting shops, a Jetbet card, a biro with an Intertrack logo on it; and three pamphlets published by the TAB: Bet types; Racing jargon; How to slip bet] Quantity: 7 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-289

Description: Shows five different vignettes where the newspaper headline is taken differently from its intention, mainly as a result of a pun: Bruce McLaren the motor racing driver actually drops out through a hole in his car (where the intended meaning was that he withdrew from the race) "Hacks checked at Trentham" shows a man checking his horse into a cloakroom counter (like a hat check) whereas the intended meaning was that some horses in the race at Trentham Racecourse were held back by the horses in front. A tennis player discusses his lack of success in betting at horse races; he had "picked all the first leg winners and missed out on all the second legs". First leg refers to the first race on the programme, and second leg refers to the second race, etc. Palmerston rider wins a lolly scramble, rather the the motorcycle "scramble" race that was intended. A cyclist is showing "fielding" a cricket ball and calling out "Howzat?", whereas the meaning was that the cyclist won an event at the town of Feilding. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing and collage 430 x 293 mm, on sheet 482 x 312 mm.

Date: 1959

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0065-F

Description: 7 photographs of Maori at Eastbourne, in a boat, on the back of a truck etc. 5 photographs taken at Trentham racecourse, including 3 of elderly Pakeha women and 1 of a Maori woman seated alongside a young Maori girl. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1959. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-026

Description: The cartoon begins with a man saying to a group of passers by 'The Cartoon Dept. is conducting a quick Gallop on the question - is the TAB a good thing?' The first person interviewed is a 'Mother of ten' who is surrounded by children and has a husband in tow - she answers the queston with 'All things in moderation, I say!'; second is a 'Maori elder' wearing a feathered cloak who says 'Taboo!'; Next is Mr Nash who says 'Yes - No! The government, by pursuing its disastrous financial & import policy...'; then comes a 'returned soldier' who says 'I had three in the army - never again!'; next is a 'grocer' who says 'It's taking our bread out of your mouths!' and last is an 'ex-bookie' who screams 'It was an evil day the day it started!' Context - Betting on horses was taken over in 1950 by a state-run agency, the Totalisator Agency Board or TAB which explains the wrath of the ex-bookie. The TAB began in 1950 under the first National Government with Sid Holland as PM. It was a controversial subject. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 340 x 505 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0097

Description: Views of spectators, at Trentham Racecourse in 1970. Frames 10 to 12 show punters placing bets at a betting window. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Sourse of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-016693-G

Description: At the Wanganui racecourse, circa 1910. Photograph taken by either F J Denton or Mark Lampe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1999-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000330

Description: Photographs relating to horse racing at the Kumara Racing Club from 1999 to 2003. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Horse1 (kumara)" Quantity: 74 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Avondale Jockey Club (Auckland, N.Z.); Scott Printing Company

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1917-01

Description: Racing programme shows an engraving of a horseshoe on the front cover. Inside are a list of race officials, admission charges, train arrangements, totalisator rules, special notices and regulations including notice of a war tax of 2.5%, the band programme, and all the horses running in each of the eight races. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 123 x 98 mm.