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    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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    The former Woodend Racecourse in central Victoria. I was in town there on Monday so went by and took some pictures. The facility is now a Recreation Reserve with several different users including the Pony Club who look as though they operate from what is left of the course.


    As well as the grandstand and some out buildings a Stewards tower and swab box still exist. Apparently across the back there is a walking track along the old back straight.









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    Good stuff Kyle. No oval? Would have thought an undercover stand like that would have some appeal to a footy team. Maybe Woodend has a swisho footy club or the pony club beat them to it
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    The footy oval I think is further down (built over what might have been the home turn). An indoor pavilion (basketball?) is also built "over" the track

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    Kyle and Kevin
    Here's the Woodend complex via Google Earth;

    https://www.google.com.au/maps/place...30a0d220?hl=en

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    A great view, thanks Noel
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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.
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    Ghost Tracks Everywhere!

    While reading the microfiche files of the Bendigo Advertiser from 1924 ( inspired by John Peck to search out the 4 ..YES FOUR Bendigo Trotting Cups of 1924),
    I noted that trotting and pacing races were held at the following tracks.

    Many were on town racecourses, on the same program as the gallops, but Mystic Park and Corop held all trotting meetings.
    Plenty of places to race, but the travel must have been challenging !

    They raced at:
    Myer's Flat, Corop, Mystic Park, Campbell's Creek, Bungaree, Cohuna, Raywood, Neilborough, Boort, Inglewood, Koondrook, Marong, Goornong, Korong Vale as well as the 4 meetings at the Epsom Racecourse held by the Bendigo Trotting Club.
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    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)
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    8 trainers to be congratulated for keeping the Showies going in Qld with 3 races of 6 starters today

    http://www.harness.org.au/index.cfm?p=f&id=/

    I bet Dan wishes he was going around
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