http://www.harness.org.au/news-artic...?news_id=22961
The Horsham & District Harness Racing Club will celebrate 100 years of Trotting in Horsham at their anniversary racemeeting on Labour Day Monday, March 10th.
This outstanding community event recognizes the formation of the Horsham Trotting Club in March 1913 and the subsequent staging of their inaugural race meeting on May 7th 1913.
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http://www.harness.org.au/news-artic...?news_id=22961
I am looking forward to attending a good meeting tomorrow but a couple of things have me beat:
1) 100 years would have been last year
2) Wouldn't an earlier day meeting (or better still Sunday) have been more likely to pull a crowd, rather than a twilight meeting in the dying hours of the long weekend
ps If this finds the attention of anyone connected with Horsham Historical Society - isn't it time that Thomas Halfpenny received some acknowledgement by way of a street name, plaque, anything, for "the man who deserves more honour as a founder of Horsham" (town) to quote 'A Story of Horsham'
Pardon the personal gripe folks but it is a massive oversight of a great, great, ..... grandfather of mine.