Inter Dominion Pacing Championship

Action from the Pacers Consolation Final - 2007 Interdominion @ Globe Derby Park
for winners of the trotting event see: Inter Dominion Trotting Championship

The Inter Dominion is a harness racing competition that has been contested since 1936 in Australia and New Zealand. The host of the series is rotated between the six harness racing states of Australia and the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The rotation of the Championships is fixed annually at a meeting of the Council. It is fixed five years in advance. It is held in New Zealand once in each four years.[1]

The series is held over a two-week period, with currently two rounds of heats held in the first week (formerly tree rounds were conducted, and that will be the case in te 2012 series). The scheduling of the distances is usually at the discretion of the host club. At each round of heats there are usually three races to accommodate the number of horses in the series; however, that number has varied. The final and consolation are held usually around a week after the final round of heats. The usual distance is a longer distance in excess of 2400 metres.[2]

Blacks A Fake made history in 2010, by winning his fourth Inter Dominion title by becoming the only horse to win four Inter Dominion races.[3]

1952 Inter-Dominion Racebook

Pacing Championship Winners

Note: Smoken Up was first past the post in 2011, but was disqualified for a positive drugs test. This still remains in dispute in court despite the race being awarded to Im Themightyquinn.[4]

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