Our Ghost Tracks.... Where are they?

[Amlin]

Traralgon Racecourse - like Bairnsdale still used by other racing codes.


A half mile circuit which ran TAB and non-TAB meets from 1975-1995.


This pic taken in June last year - the dogs are rebuilding their track and a grandstand in the middle so this may take over some of the track.


Facilities at Traralgon were probably the best of the smaller clubs with a nice big grandstand and two large lounge areas, plus downstairs bookies ring and bar, and brick stalls blocks (one of the advantages of sharing with the gallops)

[John Adams]

Trotting in Melbourne has had a few different homes. The first base of the sport was at Elsternwick Park, on the corner of St Kilda Road and Hotham Street. After 10 years the lease was not renewed and the sport in the 1890's appeared at Croxton and Richmond, but was "red hot". In 1906 John Wren took over Richmond, Ascot and Croxton (Fitzroy) and he centered trotting at Richmond where a weekly meeting was held until it closed in 1932. The trots then went to Ascot, opposite the Showgrounds where they were quite popular until it was shut in 1942.