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    Senior Member Horse Of The Year Adaptor will become famous soon enough
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    Trotting Around......can't claim to have been to many gallps and only 1 dog track

    Kyle...only ever been to one dog track in my life, very few galloping tracks , but from memory ..all of these
    Trots

    Ararat
    Ararat Showgrounds
    Ballarat Showgrounds
    Bray Raceway Ballarat
    Bendigo
    Charlton
    Cobram
    Cranbourne
    Geelong Showgrounds
    Geelong
    Harold Park
    Kerang
    Kyabram
    Mildura
    Moonee Valley
    Mooroopna
    Nyah
    Ouyen
    Robinvale
    Shepparton ( Kialla)
    Shepparton Showgrounds
    Stawell
    St Arnaud
    Terang
    Wangaratta
    Warragul
    Wayville (Adelaide)
    Wedderburn

    NZ
    Alexandra Park Auckland
    Hutt Park Wellington

    USA
    Freehold
    Goshen Historic Track
    Monticello
    The Meadowlands
    Yonkers
    Roosevelt (the remains, now a shopping mall)

    plus former trotting tracks at
    Gower Park (trials)
    Horsham Showgrounds (trots)
    Melbourne Showgrounds
    Woodend
    Epsom Racecourse Bendigo
    Marong Racecourse ( now golf course)
    Axedale Racecourse ( now golf course)

    I'm sure I missed one or two...

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    Junior Member Yearling lasse will become famous soon enough
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    "Across the Desert Square Man"-Lucky Starr I think!
    Haven't been to enough Gallop tracks to warrant listing but did start gambling on the dogs at the old Harold Park when I was around 12!!

    Trotting tracks I've been to with(w) denoting if I drove or trained a winner there(included for my own walk down memory lane!)
    Albion Park(w)
    Albury
    Armidale
    Bankstown(w)
    Bathurst
    Blayney
    Canberra
    Cowra
    Cranbourne
    Dubbo
    Fairfield(w)
    Globe Derby
    Goulburn
    Kilmore(w)
    Maitland(w)
    Melton
    Menangle(w)
    Muswellbrook(w)
    Narrabri
    Penrith(w)
    Redcliffe
    Shepparton
    Tamworth(w)
    Wagga

    NZ
    Addington

    Sweden
    Solvalla

    Finland
    Vermo
    Kouvola
    Tampere

    Tracks no more....
    Granville(Trials)
    Parramatta
    Hawkesbury
    Richmond(w)
    Liverpool(Trials)
    Kembla Grange
    Gosford(w)
    Wyong(w)

    A lot of great memories came flooding back!

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    Senior Member Horse Of The Year Amlin will become famous soon enough Amlin's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by lasse View Post
    "Across the Desert Square Man"-Lucky Starr I think!
    Haven't been to enough Gallop tracks to warrant listing but did start gambling on the dogs at the old Harold Park when I was around 12!!

    Trotting tracks I've been to with(w) denoting if I drove or trained a winner there(included for my own walk down memory lane!)
    Albion Park(w)
    Albury
    Armidale
    Bankstown(w)
    Bathurst
    Blayney
    Canberra
    Cowra
    Cranbourne
    Dubbo
    Fairfield(w)
    Globe Derby
    Goulburn
    Kilmore(w)
    Maitland(w)
    Melton
    Menangle(w)
    Muswellbrook(w)
    Narrabri
    Penrith(w)
    Redcliffe
    Shepparton
    Tamworth(w)
    Wagga

    NZ
    Addington

    Sweden
    Solvalla

    Finland
    Vermo
    Kouvola
    Tampere

    Tracks no more....
    Granville(Trials)
    Parramatta
    Hawkesbury
    Richmond(w)
    Liverpool(Trials)
    Kembla Grange
    Gosford(w)
    Wyong(w)

    A lot of great memories came flooding back!



    The old Richmond track was something else - can remember seeing it on Sky and would love to hunt down a video to bring it back to life!

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    Member Filly kung fu man will become famous soon enough
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    Trained a horse at Hawkesbury with my dad in the eighties,i remember Peter Tritton training there some days and D J Heath was regular, it was Thursday night meetings I remember, you couldn't see the back straight for fog!!! Had a few drives at Richmond on the grass,dirt and gravel patches

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    Trots:
    Albion Park
    Gold Coast
    Tweed Heads
    Rocklea
    Marburg
    Rockhampton
    Maryborough (Qld & Vic)
    Armidale
    Narrabri
    Tamworth
    Dubbo
    Harold Park
    Menangle
    Bankstown
    Fairfield
    Moonee Valley
    Echuca
    Kilmore
    Addington
    Mohawk


    Gallops:
    Eagle Farm
    Doomben
    Albion Park
    Caloundra
    Gold Coast
    Gympie
    Rockhampton
    Randwick
    Flemington
    Moonee Valley
    Woodbine
    Laurel Park
    Arlington Park


    Dogs:
    Albion Park
    Beenleigh
    Lawnton
    Capalaba
    Gabba
    Ipswich
    Gold Coast
    Tweed Heads
    Toowoomba
    Harold Park
    Wentworth Park


    Noting of course that some of these tracks no longer exist.

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