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Certainly does, was saying a few good horses won there first race at Westport trots, armalight and our mana, both top horses of there era, been a long day hence not reading your post correctly re the winners, I'll have to hunt down an old race book to see who did win in 74, I know the club got a 1000 pounds back in the day for the worlds first triple deadheat, -
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Who won the Westport cup that year, had the gallops till 1996, nice course.
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As I mentioned before, the anticipation of Ellerslie on Boxing Day used to be enormous, so not just the smaller clubs What created the anticipation at Ellerslie on Boxing Day? 4 things, in my opinion anyway 1. The overall high quality fields 2. The Derby and Queen Elizabeth which was always a superb field and the lead up race for those serious about the Auckland Cup on NYD. 3. The picnics and boot parties on the infield,. along with all the other activities that led to a real carnival atmosphere. They used to get 10,000 people 4. The huge coverage in papers like the Auckland Star and Friday Flash
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