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Avondale Racecourse

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40: 114:. First established in 1888, the racecourse has been used as a military training facility and as a temporary hospital. Currently the racecourse is used as a venue for the Avondale Jockey Club, sports fields for rugby union, rugby league, soccer and cricket, as a location of the Avondale Sunday Markets. 168:
The Avondale Sunday Market is one of the largest regular markets in New Zealand, first established in the 1970s, and developed due to the growth of migration of different ethnic groups to Auckland.
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Attendance at racecourse events have declined in the 21st century, however the venue has been renewed attendance due to the refurbishment of the
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from 1912, and from 1913 as an airfield. On 13 April 1913, Frederik E. Sandford flew the rebuilt biplane
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In 1989 the Avondale Jockey Club sold off a large portion of land, which was re-developed as housing.
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The racecourse was first opened in 1888, with the original grandstand replaced in 1902. During the
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before it crashed. After the war, the racecourse became a temporary hospital for the
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at the racecourse; a biplane formerly owned and flown by the
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Civil Aviation in New Zealand: An Illustrated History
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Avondale racecourse

Coordinates
36°53′49″S 174°41′28″E / 36.897°S 174.691°E / -36.897; 174.691
Avondale
Auckland
New Zealand
First World War
3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles
Walsh Brothers
1918 flu pandemic
motorcycle
World War II
Ellerslie Racecourse





ISBN
978-0-473-54013-5
ISBN
0-589-00905-2
"Those Daring Young Men in their Flying Machine: Sandford-Miller biplane flights at Avondale, 1913"
the original
"Urban renewal: A tale of two Avondales"
Stuff
"Three of Auckland's best farmers' markets"
Stuff
"About the Market"

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