Town and Districts Archives - Page 5 of 17

Charles Hunter ONZM

Charles Hunter was a 1960s and 1970s harness driver and trainer. He remains one of the most successful trainers to have competed in harness racing. He won his first Inter Dominion Final in 1971 when…

Caroline Evers-Swindell ONZM and Georgina Evers-Swindell ONZM

The Evers-Swindell sisters were Olympic champion rowers. The identical twin sisters competed in the double sculls. In November 2005 they were named Rowing Female Crew of the Year by the International Rowing Federation (FISA), and…

Carl Mossman

Carl Mossman was a 1970s softball captain and World Series winner. He was a vital member of the successful Cambridge Blue Streaks and Waikato softball teams in the 1970s. He and legendary former New Zealand…

Amigene Metcalfe

Amigene Metcalfe was a touch rugby and netball player. Metcalfe was a member of the New Zealand Touch Team between 1994 and 2003. During that time she played in three World Cups, two as Captain,…

Alan Wallace

Allan Wallace was a world champion competitive ploughman and NZPA executive. Wallace started competitive ploughing in 1961 in events run by the Young Farmers Clubs. At that stage he had only done a little ploughing…

A K (Kevin) Holmes

A K Holmes was a 1960s harness racing driver and trainer. He was a magician both in the sulky and in the training yard. He won the New Zealand Derby at Addington Raceway in 1968.…

Balmerino

Mosaic of a champion horse in Cambridge, Waipa

Named after a Scottish village near the St Andrew’s golf course, Balmerino became a pioneer of global racing in the mid-1970s. On the international stage the globetrotting galloper from Cambridge put New Zealand horses on…

Ethereal

Many illustrious broodmares grace the lush breeding paddocks at Peter and Philip Vela’s Pencarrow Stud property between Cambridge and Hamilton. Indeed they have a truly international broodmare band. One of them is Ethereal who captured…

Empire Rose

A giant-sized mare who captured the hearts and imagination of Australasian racegoers with her wonderful staying prowess. The undoubted highlight of her career was a dramatic win in the 1988 Melbourne Cup in which she…

Foxbridge

Commenced stud duties at Trelawney Stud, Cambridge 1935 Foxbridge dominated the Australasian racing world for more than two decades. After claiming his first New Zealand sires’ title in the 1940-41 season he went on to…