A day at the races Waverley (Wanganui District) Traditional Cache

Waverley race course
The club was founded in  1874 and is celebrating 140 years of racing this year 2014. The track was upgraded in 2005 and a new running rail installed in 2006. It has two grandstands and the members stand featured in the movie Good Bye pork Pie.
 

~~The town is well known for its farming and thoroughbred stables. The race horse Kiwi was trained in the paddocks of a Waverley sheep farm by owner Snow Lupton, and went on to go from last on the final bend to win the 1983 Melbourne Cup
The cache can be accessed via a pull off on the coast side on the new Plymouth side of Waverley. There is a picnic area with tables and benches. If iots race day you can watch the horses running by. It is also next to the railway line which is busy at times with transporting milk to Hawera for processing .
 The cache is a camo and has no room for exchanges. Bring your own pencil