Otaki - Maori Racing Club

The Otaki-Maori Racing Club's home is the Otaki Racecourse, located 70 kilometres (40 miles) north of New Zealand's capital city Wellington. The club has enjoyed a long, colourful and successful history since its establishment in 1886. Our proud point of difference, all things being equal, is that we are the sole surviving Maori racing club in New Zealand - others having disappeared prior to the twentieth century.

As well as eight OMRC race meetings per season, the course also operates four days a year for the Levin Racing Club.

The racecourse itself is sited on a rich and easily accessible plain, and just two minutes east of Otaki Railway and State Highway One. The track is used daily by up to 140 horses in training, largely because of its ideal location in the central lower North Island, and excellent training facilities.

The OMRC is unique in that full, or ordinary, membership is open only to people tracing to the Ngati Raukawa, Te Atiawa or Ngati Toa tribes. There are of course other membership options for those not descended from the tribes - and we welcome all inquiries, constantly seek new ideas, new energy and new sponsors. If you'd like to be a part of the iconic OMRC's success, its events, history and future, please contact us.

CONFERENCES, WEDDING RECEPTIONS AND MORE
Otaki-Maori Racing Club, located on beautiful Otaki racecourse, is ideal for hosting all kinds of events, business expos and social activities.

Just over an hour north of Wellington, this beautiful property with a number of rooms suitable for meetings, seminars, celebrations etc is also just 20 minutes from Paraparaumu.

Otaki racecourse is two minutes east of SH1, has huge parking, two grandstands, each containing a number of function room possibilities. Though no catering company operates from the racecourse permanently, Otaki-Maori Racing Club is fortunate in having Palmerston North's Creative Catering available for all race meetings and private functions. This top of the