They raced at Inglewood Vic
Inglewood, Victoria
One & quarter miles
Opened early 1870's. Trotting Club operated from 1922 to 1929
Approximately where the current golf course is situated.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place...30a08f10?hl=en
Inglewood is the current home to former Showgrounds regulars Kevin Innes and Bob Birthisel.
Last abode of the late Charlton champ Ian McCallum.
The fields for Inglewood April 14, 1923
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/arti...&searchLimits=
With Land Star, winner of 5 races at Richmond ( Melbourrne) off 195 yards behind !
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Night Trotting at the WACA...they raced there?
Here's an intersting Ghost Trotting Track...the WACA.
Three months after signing a lease agreement the WATA began racing on the WACA Ground track,
on 28th June 1913 in front of a crowd of 1200 people who put 300 pounds through the on-course
totalisator. The Association's timekeepers D C Braham and W McNamara had the idea of trotting underlights to avoid clashes with gallop' meetings.
On 2nd January 1914 a quote of 379 pounds, from Leo Walton's Electrical Wiring Company, was
accepted for the installation of lights at the WACA track. Australia's first complete meeting under lights
was held at the WACA on 24th January 1914 with the running of five races. The first event was won by Alfred Fox driving Battler 11.
At this time there was a proliferation of privately owned race-tracks across the suburbs of Perth and both the WA Trotting Association and WA Turf Club were at loggerheads with these “unregistered” clubs racing at venues such as Goodwood, Bicton and Canning Park.
On 23rd April 1914 James Brennan reported to the WATA Committee that the WA Cricket Association
was prepared to sell 17 acres of land on the northern side of their ground, which became Brennan Park, now Gloucester Park.
Bendigo Jockey Club Racecourse at Epsom: 6 Bendigo Trotting Cups
There were 6 Bendigo Cups at Epsom
Research in the files of country newspapers by Harness Racing Historian John Peck, and listed on
http://www.classicfamilies.net/cf/Cl...px?RaceID=4367 has revealed that there were six Bendigo Trotting Cups in the 1920s and early 1930's raced on the turf at the Bendigo Jockey Club's' Epsom racecourse.
The honour roll of Bendigo Cups, conducted on the turf at Epsom, before the building of Lord's Raceway reads:
1. 1924 Kinnie Bazil
2. 1924 Grand Voyage
3. 1924 Queen Pirate
4. 1924 Dummy (read the report in the Argus newspaper of the day: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2086478
5. 1929 First Cast
6. 1932 Le Wilkes
For more, follow this link to the Bendigo Harness Racing Club website's History page: http://www.bhrc.com.au/history-of-bhrc.html
The result ot the First Bendigo Cup:
BENDIGO CUP – 100 pounds – One mile & three furlongs
TH Ford’s KINNIE BAZIL, 15yds (W Reidell) 1
General Ribbonwood, 85yds (M Harrison) 2
Landstar, 55yds (J Hawkins) 3
Other: inverell, 20yds (A Butcher)
Margins: 8yds X one yd time: 3m 23.4s (WR 2m 27s)