New Zealand - Auckland
- Ellerslie Races, King's Birthday 2nd June 1947 Meeting, Note on back: Horse The Day, Pine Park, 172.2.6 pounds won
- 1947
- Unknown Photographer
- Original Private Photo
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Ellerslie Racecourse
- Ellerslie Racecourse is the main racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand, for thoroughbred racehorses. It is an undulating, grass circuit of approximately 1,900 m in the suburb of Ellerslie, Auckland.
- Horses have raced at Ellerslie since 1857 when Robert Graham hosted a race meeting on his property, on the site which is now Ellerslie Racecourse. The Auckland Racing club then purchased thirty-six hectares of land from Graham in 1872 on which the course is situated.
- The first race meeting of the Auckland Racing Club was held at Ellerslie on 25 May 1874. At this time the racecourse was a considerable distance outside the city and it took Aucklanders up to several hours to get to the course by carriage.
- A "platform" station, Ellerslie Racecourse Platform was opened in January 1874. Many went by train, although with the demand created by the event, as late as in 1910 they often had to travel in open cattle trucks because there were not enough normal coaches available for the demand of the extra services.