N.Z. Racing Museum

[Phar Lap Fan]

Is this dead in the water now or resting on the ocean floor? Will be working on clearing some books and memorabilia and wonder where to offer it.

[meomy]

How did you get on @Phar Lap Fan ?

 It's timely to bring these topics & ideas to the fore.

We should be getting our back of house up & running so it's up to scratch when racing resumes as it should be, back in the limelight.

[Phar Lap Fan]

Had forgotten about this.

No progress made and still working on the spring clean (from one Spring to the next, then the next ....). Not much interest nowadays but hope that old books and magazines might find a home.

[Baz (NZ)]

I believe Cambridge Stud are building one on their new state of the art property. 

Not sure it's a national museum or just Cambridge Stud related...probably the latter.

We are sure in need of a National Museum...however the way things are going we could all end up in there very soon! 

What happened to old Carbine who used to reside at Ellerslie ???

Wendy Pye tried to get a racing museum off the ground but got little support from memory?

[Baz (NZ)]

2 November 1951 Kindergarten
 

[Baz (NZ)]

21 May 1951 Kindergarten
 

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11 Jan 1951 Beaumaris In Training
 

[Baz (NZ)]

Maybe We Could Start A Race Cafe Digital Online NZ Racing Museum With Video's & Photos From History?

10 July 1950 Racehorse called The Scotsman being displayed possibly by its owner or trainer at Trentham racecourse.
 

[Baz (NZ)]

17 Jan 1959 W J Broughton with other jockeys after a presentation.
 

[Baz (NZ)]

5th July 1958 Three unidentified Jockeys at Trentham, Upper Hutt. Who Are They?
 

[Baz (NZ)]

@Phar Lap Fan
Dec 1931 Racehorse 'Phar Lap' (on left) being exercised at Hugh Telford's stables at Trentham, Upper Hutt, Handler, and other horse, unidentified
 

[Baz (NZ)]

@Phar Lap Fan
Dec 1931 Racehorse Phar Lap, with handler jockey Reginald James Mackie, at Hugh Telfords stables, Trentham, Upper Hutt

[Baz (NZ)]

Mainbrace and jockey Grenville Hughes at Awapuni. Photograph taken 23 Apr 1951
 

[Baz (NZ)]

Mainbrace' surrounded by the crowd after winning the Awapuni Gold Cup. Photograph taken 23 Apr 1951
 

[Baz (NZ)]

Steeplechase at Ellerslie Race Course, Auckland. Photo by Leo White
 

[Baz (NZ)]

5 April 1951 The racehorse Royal Tan arriving by launch at Paremata for a race at Trentham
 

[Baz (NZ)]

January 1950 Beaumaris, winning horse in Wellington Cup, Trentham Racecourse
 

[Baz (NZ)]

The jockey Mr Cleaver on the first day of the races at Trentham race course. Photograph taken  19 July 1951 by an Evening Post photographer.
 

[Baz (NZ)]

1958 Evening Post Wellington Unnamed jockeys at Koslman's Gymnasium. Who Are They?
 

[Baz (NZ)]

1934 The Duke of Gloucester Handicap, Trentham - Photograph taken by Charles Percy Samuel Boyer 1902-1973
 

[Baz (NZ)]

1935 Matthew Goodger and Joe Oldfield

Matthew Goodger (left) and Joe Oldfield, at a Hastings race meeting in 1935. Photographer unidentified. Inscription on back of image reads: "Mr Matthew Goodger of Hastings, oldest jockey and trainer in NZ, aged 87. Raced in 1864, the first 2 year old in NZ, Bobby Burns, by Golden Grape and Annie Laurie, owner was [?] Webb of Riccarton. He got smashed in the quake, broke thigh, dislocated hip, 2 ruptures. He trained and rode Liberator in 1903. Joe Oldfield, Greenmead[ows?] , aged 62, riding since the age of 10, has been associated with Mr Goodger for the past 40 years."
 

[Baz (NZ)]

Grandstand damaged by fire, possibly at Riccarton Racecourse, Christchurch. Photograph taken 1919
 

[Baz (NZ)]

The finish of a steeplechasing race on the first day of the races at Trentham race course. Photograph taken 19 July 1951
 

[Baz (NZ)]

July 1950 Racehorse called Dawn March at Trentham race course.
 

[Baz (NZ)]

Horses in the Wellington Cup in the birdcage at the Trentham Racecourse, photographed circa 23 January 1951