The Beaumont Racing Club could provide the New Zealand racing industry with a blueprint for success. The Beaumont club did that more than two decades ago. The club's meeting at Wingatui on Monday will mark 32 years since it moved its racing away from the Beaumont region. Wood has been attending Beaumont Racing Club meetings since the 1940s and has been on the club's committee since 1960. A raft of abandoned meetings has forced the racing industry to examine and possibly rationalise the nation's racecourses.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 19, 2018 16:31 UTC