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AUDIT ROW #328 · HARNESS AND EXPOSITION RACING, TESTED
The town's one fair-form event of record, the 1900 exposition whose course this history carries, shows no racing in the record reached — no harness programme, no running races, no oval. The standard small-town origin (a fairground half-mile where harness horses ran before cars did) was tested against that exposition record and the county-fair record for this ground, and no Walkerton racing of any kind precedes the automobile here. The negative is printed at exposition-record strength, with the settler for the marginal case named: the exposition premium books and the Independent's fair-week files, which would carry a racing programme if one ran. This town's racing begins, so far as the record shows, with a boy in the late twentieth century — article 6 — and this section's origin story is that absence followed by that boy.