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Map showing Terang Harness Racing Club

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+61 (0)3 5592 1785

Harness racing began in Terang on New Years Day 1895 when the holiday meeting at the local racing club featured a new event for trotters over two miles. Over the course of the ensuing 17 years races were held sporadically at the Terang racecourse and at racecourses in neighboring townships.

On Saturday, March 2nd 1912, the Terang Trotting Club was formed at a meeting of 40 local enthusiasts met at O’Hagen’s Hotel, Terang. A twelve man committee was established and the first meeting of five events was held at the Terang Racecourse on Thursday afternoon, March 28th 1912.

Over the following decades the TTC grew in membership and held many successful, regular meetings. The TTC was the first club in Victoia to race after the end of the second world war, and was also the first to establish its own racing headquarters.

After a dispute with the Terang Racing Club in 1948, the TTC resolved to establish their own track on Dalvui Lane. Within six weeks of the survey and subsequent purchase of the site, a half mile track, 40 feet wide, with straights of half a furlong, was constructed in time for the inaugural meeting on Saturday, February 5th 1949.

In 1954 the track surface was upgraded to sand from the original cinders. The Trotting Control Board assisted the TTC in funding for track lights and working bees of members and local enthusiasts erected all the poles. The TTC was the first exclusively owned harness racing course to install a modern side lighting system. The first night meeting was held at Terang on New Years Night 1955 and attracted approximately 8000 spectators.

In 1977 the track lighting system was upgraded to provide greater visibility for spectators and television cameras. At the time Dalvui Raceway had the finest lighting system on the country circuit.

The TTC became the THRC in 1982 to better reflect the changing nature of the sport and in the same year the Dalvui Patrons Stand and the horse stalls were completed. In 1988 the THRC was incorporated and the new Gammalite winning post was unveiled.

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