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Maurice Holmes
Inducted in 1990
In a sporting career that spanned six decades, Morrie Holmes became the greatest driver in New Zealand harness racing that the sport has seen.
Sporting Category:
  • Harness racing
He won the national drivers’ premiership on 18 occasions between 1931 and 1974 and had a total of 1666 wins in his long career.

They included three New Zealand Cups, two Auckland Cups and two Interdominion championship finals, plus numerous wins in lesser events, including 12 New Zealand Derbies. Holmes’s star did not fade with age.

In his second-last season, he had a record 88 winners and in his last, when he was forced to retire at the age of 65, he extended that record to 93.

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Philippa Baker-Hogan and Brenda Lawson

Baker (1963 -), Lawson (1967 -)

Individually and together, Philippa Baker-Hogan and Brenda Lawson were world leaders in rowing in the early 1990s. Between them, they won 47 national premier titles and Baker-Hogan became the first female New Zealander to win a world title when she won the lightweight single sculls in 1991.
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