Story: Hōiho – horses and iwi

More links and websites

• Ōtaki-Māori Racing Club, Ōtaki, Horowhenua, New Zealand

  The website of New Zealand’s only remaining Māori racing club includes information on its history, and its activities today..

• Parāone’s horses: – a letter from Hōhepa Tamamutu, 1875

  This 1999 article by Margaret Orbell explains the 1875 request for horses by Parāone Taupiri of Ngāti Raukawa, made in the traditional form of a waiata (song) to Ngāti Tūwharetoa chiefs.

• The taniwha – the landing of the first horses in New Zealand

  This story from Māui Pōmare’s 1930 book Legends of the Māori discusses the impact that horses made on Māori when introduced in Wellington.

More suggestions and sources

• Brooking, Tom. ‘The equine factor: the powerhouse of the colonisation of New Zealand to 1945.’ In On the horse’s back, 2004: proceedings of the 2004 conference of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, nā Lily Baker i tātari, 53–56. Tāmaki-makau-rau: New Zealand Society of Genealogists, 2004.
• Mincham, Carolyn. ‘Horse racing in the colonial community, 1841–1911.’ Tuhinga roa MA, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, 2001.