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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]

Racing — The Egmont Racing Club

Racing.

The Egmont Racing Club was established about the year 1881. The racecourse is situated one mile and a-half from Hawera, or the Waihi road, on a freehold section of eighty-six acres. In 1904 a handsome building was ereeted, at a cost of £3000, and includes a grandstand, which has seating accommodation for 2000 people; there is also another stand with seat room for 750 persons. The course, which is one mile round, is, owing to the nature of the turf, considered' a slow one, and there are two grass and two ploughed tracks inside the course proper. Meetings are held in February and May of each year. The Summer Meeting of 1906 distributed stakes to the value of £1921, and at the Hack or Winter Meeting £915 was the amount of the stakes. Officers for 1906:, Messrs R. H. Nolan (president), H. W. Sutton (chairman of committee), and J. A. Turton (secretary).