Joseph and Ann Allen were to have four further children while living in the Kingston area. Joseph was born in 1854, Maria in 1856, Thomas 1858, and Susanna in 1860.

By 1857, Joseph Allen was the inn keeper of the Stag's Head Hotel in Kingston next to Hepburn's station. A newspaper reports a theft in which young Henry Allen was a witness. Click HERE for the newspaper report.

The newspaper on a later date reported an arson attempt on a farm barn and the hotel. Young Henry Allen is reported as having found the arsonist's box of matches! Click HERE for the newspaper report.

By 1859, the Allen Family had moved in to the Forest Hill Hotel in Kingston. In March of that year, 11 year old Henry Allen ran away from home.

The house at Maribyrnong when Harry worked there

Harry's coming to New Zealand cannot be set at a definite date, for he was an Australian jockey riding horses at New Zealand race meetings for Australian horse owners. It was in 1862 that he first came to Dunedin. He would have been about fifteen years old. He was engaged to ride Kauri Gum in a match for 500 pounds a side against Falcon, an Australian horse, to be ridden by T.Hayes, an Australian horseman. A Mr Farquhar was the backer of Falcon. In 1864 Harry returned to Australia.

A little later, Harry returned to New Zealand with Messrs. Carson and James McKenzie, railway contractors, who owned the horses Black Doctor, Antonelli, Partisan and Loddon. On Partisan, Harry won the Booth Handicap. On a horse called Young Alma he won the the Forced Handicap, and on Poison he won the Black Hurdle Race. At that time the 16 year old Harry weighed 5 stone 9 pounds.

There was a fuss about Poison - some thought it was a horse with a history. Early in the New Zealand racing scene the pedigrees of some horses were unknown. In fact, these horses were sometimes well known and successful Australian horses that had been shipped to New Zealand as "hacks", sometimes even disguised as circus horses, to race successfully in New Zealand under other names. This lies behind many statements made of Harry Goodman that he was always an honest horseman and could be trusted.

After these race meetings Harry returned to Australia. He came back to New Zealand soon afterwards in 1864. At the first of the Champion Meetings held in Canterbury, in January 1865, Harry came second on Antonelli in the Canterbury Cup. Harry rode again for Mr Carson of Dunedin, and then returned to Melbourne.

In Melbourne he continued to ride for Hurtle Fisher, and had the mount on Rose of Denmark, first favourite for the Melbourne Cup in 1865. It was Rose of Denmark's third attempt at the Melbourne Cup. She got 3rd place in 1863. In 1865, when Harry rode her, she was unplaced. Still riding for Hurtle Fisher, Harry finished second on the Ascot Vale Stakes on Seagull, but was declared the winner owing to another jockey, Dan O'Brien, on Fishhook, having gone inside a post.

The field at Melbourne 1865. Which one is Harry?

Harry had a temper - a trait inherited by a few of his descendants. The incident with Dan O'Brien was part of a life-long argument that Harry had with O'Brien - climaxing in the one time Harry was reprimanded in racing circles. Harry and O'Brien were whip-lashing during a race. It occurred on the old Dunedin Silverstream racecource. David Corson and Mr Lee each owned a horse, and made a bet of 50 pounds that one would beat the other for places in the race. Dan O'Brien rode Mr Corson's Stormbird, and Harry was on Mr Lee's Firetail. Coming round the bend into the straight one of them bumped into the other. Immediately whips flashed out, but were not used on their mounts. They each thrashed each other most unmercifully; the horses swerved across the course, collided with Mounted Constable Bevin, and sent him and his white horse sprawling. Neither horse was placed, and a horse called Schoolboy won the race.

For a Mr Day, Harry won a hurdle race at Bendigo on Valentine, and was third on Beaufort in his first steeple chase there.

Harry returned again to New Zealand. This is possibly the time his mother Ann, step-father Joseph Allen, sisters Sophia Goodman and Ellen Goodman, his two step-sisters Mary Ann Allen and Catherine Allen, and his four half-brothers and sisters - Joseph Allen, Maria Allen, Thomas Allen, and Susanna Allen - came to Dunedin.

Having returned to New Zealand he rode Musician on the flat and over hurdles. He was with Mr W.C.Webb when he had Belle of the Isle, Stormbird, Master Rowe, Magenta, and Little Lady. Next year, 1866, he won two races on Candidate, and two hurdle races on Brown Stout, besides a match for 100 pounds a side on Mocking Bird, and races on Selim and Mocking Bird at Paki on the way to the Buller - the races being held on the beach and witnessed by 5,000 people.

After this, Harry went back to Dunedin, and travelled over the goldfields to various meetings. At one goldfield meeting Harry was riding a horse named Skyonian; the writer Captain Jackson Barry was judge. A man who had backed Harry's horse placed himself alongside the judge's box, and as the horses were racing up the straight sang out loudly, in a most excited manner: "Skyonian! Skyonian! Skyonian wins!" The judge, who did not know one horse in the race from another, placed Skyonian first, but Knickerbocker Sam had really won. Skyonian was not placed. He had been waiting for another race which he afterwards won. The digger collected his wager and disappeared, no doubt well satisfied with the judge's faulty decision.

Harry rode, among other horses, Fleur de Lys, Firetail, Croydon, and Burgundy. By now Harry was not only riding horses, but training them. He trained Maritana and Croydon for Mr Fitzwentworth, and Captain Scott and other horses for Mr Ned Devine (known as Cabbage Tree Ned, famous as a coach driver).

Harry's racing colours were blue body, gold sleeves and white cap - colours today (2016) owned by Francie Weggery and Tony Goodman.

The Goodman children referred to their father as "The Boss".

Harry Goodman

Annie Eliza Goodman: Annie was born on the 6th March 1872 in Dunedin. At the age of 23, on 23 October 1895, at Saint Peter's Anglican Church, Caversham, she married Thomas Moorehouse Buddicombe. Tommy Buddicom was one of the jockeys trained by Harry Goodman. Annie and Tom had no children. The marriage did not last. The divorce proceedings state that Buddicombe was an alcoholic. In 1924 Annie married a Londoner, William McArthur of Wellington. She died in 1948, and is buried at St John's, Trentham.

Annie Eliza McArthur formerly Buddicombe nee Goodman

Henry James Goodman: On 5 July 1873 Henry James was the first son born. Like his father, he was known as Harry. He worked as an accountant, and at one stage as a bookie. On 16 April 1901 he married Annie Mehalski in the Roman Catholic Basilica of St Patrick, South Dunedin. They lived in Surrey Street, Caversham. They had no children, and they last appear in the Dunedin Directory in 1908. Harry was arrested for illegal book-making. Around about this time they moved to Sydney, Australia. Harry Junior died there in 1944, and his wife Annie (known as "Big Annie" to distinguish her from the oldest sister who was known as "Little Annie") moved back to New Zealand where for a time she lived with Minnie and Albert Goodman at Trentham. She then moved to Dunedin where she died in 1959 aged 83.

Thomas Daniel Goodman: The second son was Thomas Daniel born on 16 September 1875. He fought in the Boer War. He represented Otago in rugby in 1903, and was the team captain. In 1905 he married Sarah Bentley Sharp, and they had four children. Tom was a carriage painter for the railways. They lived in Surrey Street. He died on 25 August 1937, aged 62.

Albert Goodman: On Sunday 6 May 1877 the third son Albert Goodman was born at Forbury, Dunedin. After his return from the Boer War, he married Martha Burgess in Dunedin, and after the marriage failed he married Minnie Elizabeth Scrimshaw of Trentham. They had five children. Albert had his own stables at Trentham where he trained horses, at first for his mother's brother, J.W. Lowe, and then for himself. He died in 1954 aged 74 and is buried at Akatarawa.

Albert Goodman

Walter Goodman: The fourth son was Walter, born on 1 May 1879. He married Marie Minotta Dunwoodie in 1904 and they had two children, Sydney and Edna. He was a labourer. They lived at 45 Richmond Street, Caversham. Newspaper reports record another person with the same name in Dunedin who was a drunk, a compulsive gambler and a general larrikin. Walter died on 25 October 1932, aged 53. He is buried in the Green Island Cemetery in Dunedin.

Arthur Goodman: The fifth son was Arthur born in 1882. When he was young, during the influenza epidemic, he was left with a serious heart weakness. He worked as a cook for a time, and lived at 51 Harbour Terrace, Dunedin. He never married, although his partner was known as "Auntie Nancy". For a time he worked as a carpenter in Palmerston North and Wellington. He was working at Queenstown's Mountaineer Hotel doing light duties when he died suddenly on 29 September 1920 aged 39. He is buried at Dunedin.

In July 1883 a new school opened at Macandrew Road. This was closer to where the Goodmans lived, so the Goodman children of school age were withdrawn from Caversham School which they had been attending. Both schools had high academic standards - classes were large and the students were made to work very hard. The head master of Caversham believed in a "ninety-six per cent pass rate". Only on Breakup Day was there a departure from the established division of the playground into "girls" and "boys".

Sydney Goodman: Sydney, the sixth son, was born in 1884 and died on 7 August 1889 aged 5 years 3 months.

Charles Goodman: The seventh son of Annie and Harry was Charles. He was born in 1886, worked as a blacksmith for the railways and as a labourer in Dunedin, and died on 25 September 1955. There is a newspaper report of him as a teenager going out and shooting rabbits and discovering a dead body wedged between rocks. Click HERE for the newspaper report. He never married, and lived with his mother until her death.

Frank Goodman: The eighth son was Frank. He was born in 1888, and died of tuberculosis aged 11 and a half on 30 March 1900. The day after Frank died, his older brother Albert left for the Boer War. Albert Goodman's oldest son, Frank, was named after him. As youngsters, both Franks shared a silver streak in their hair.

In 1888 Annie and Harry shifted house to 3 Cross Street. It is high on the hills over looking the city, harbour, coastline, Forbury Race Course and Carisbrook Rugby Park. They were to live there for twenty years. The original home has since been replaced.

Alfred Goodman: The ninth son was Alfred, born in 1890. Alf represented New Zealand in boxing in the Australian Championships, and was the New Zealand Featherweight Champion in 1911 and 1914. He worked as a bootmaker and a labourer. In 1911 he married Eveline Mary Dale. They set up home at 100 Maryhill Terrace, Mosgiel. They had at least two daughters - Eileen and Amelia.

Edward Goodman: Edward was the tenth son. He was born in 1893 and died aged five and a half years of age in 1898.

John William Goodman: The eleventh and youngest son was John William, born in 1895. At the age of 28 he married Edith Jeanette Smith of Waikouaiti on 17 October 1923. They had at least one child - June Kathleen. They lived mainly in Macandrew Road, Caversham. John worked as a hairdresser in Dunedin. John died on 20 June 1976.

Harry Goodman at Hastings H.B.

In 1872 Harry was training for Edward Pritchard, his brother-in-law, and won at Dunedin the Pacific Handicap, the Forbury Handicap, and with Gazelle the J.C.Handicap. At one stage there was a match between Edward Pritchard's Native Cat and Bill Kirkwood's Our Pony. The stakes were 50 pounds a side. Our Pony, ridden by his owner, received five seconds start from Native Cat, who was ridden by Harry Goodman. Our Pony won, and it was rumoured that the Native Cat party lost over 2,000 pounds.

Other winners that Harry trained were Patch, Don Pedro, Sir Tatton, Fire Eater, Chance, and Chancellor. Chancellor won the C.J.C.Handicap beating Maritana which had beaten Harry the previous year setting a new New Zealand record for 2 miles. For Harry Yeand he trained Rory O'More and King Phillip. With Kathleen he won, in 1876, the Dunedin Birthday Handicap and other races. Stanley was another useful horse he trained.

A disastrous trip to Australia was made in 1881 with Sir Modred, Somnus, Idalum, and Hilarious - each of which cost Messrs. Pritchard, Proudfoot and H.Prince 1,000 guineas each. Sir Modred, who had won four races in Canterbury, only succeeded in winning the Sydney Metropolitan Handicap. The trip ended with the owners and Harry having a punch-up. After bringing the team back to New Zealand, Harry missed the Wanganui Cup with Sir Modred, but rode him and won the Wanganui Stakes and also the Dunedin Birthday Handicap.

In 1897 the crouching style of riding a race horse was developed by L.H.Hewitt. He was engaged sometime after this by Harry Goodman, for whom he won 17 races during the first season. The horses that Harry owned at this stage included Cherrystone, Black and Red, Pitch and Toss, and Swordfish.

Harry's job meant that he was often away from home attending race meetings. Frequently his wife Annie was left alone with her large family. 1900 saw Annie and Harry Goodman's son Albert at the Boer War in South Africa. Another son, Thomas, joined Albert in 1902.

Albert Goodman June 1900 Boer War

Annie and Harry Goodman

About the third week of April he was working in the stables. George Waterman, one of Harry's apprentices, takes up the story:

"I was engaged with Mr Goodman on Tuesday last trying to put a bridle on a young horse. Mr Goodman was doing it and I was assisting. He did not get the bridle on the horse. It would not keep its head down. It kept chucking its head up in the air. Mr Goodman tried to hit the horse with the twitch which he had in his hand. The horse reared up and when it was in the air Mr Goodman made a hit at it. The horse bounded forward and knocked him down on the floor. The horse struck him on the body somewhere with its front hoof."

"I picked him up and he said he was all right. He then went to brush the horse's tail out and he fell down behind its back legs. The horse stood quite still. I picked him up again and he said he was all right. I let him go and he fell again clear of the horse. I then ran up to the house and got some brandy which I gave to him. He was still lying down. I picked him up and took him to my room and laid him on my bed. He told me to go and take another horse (Ogier) and that he would be all right in a few minutes. When I came back in about an hour and a half he was in his own room which is up at the house 50 yards away. The house is Henderson's. Mr and Mrs Henderson live there..."

Harry was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital. He died two days later at 8.30 a.m. on Friday 23rd April 1915. He was 67. The doctors at the hospital wrote: "We cannot say definitely what the cause of death was." The Coroner reported that Harry had had a large hydatid cyst in the liver which burst when the horse kicked him.

Annie wrote for the Coroner: "I was the wife of Henry Goodman now deceased. He was a horse trainer and had been for many years. His usual address was Surrey Street Dunedin. He had been in New Zealand since 1860 or 1861. He came from Adelaide where I believe he was born. He has left 9 children here surviving. They are all grown up. He was working for Mr Crossan for the last 15 or 16 months and was in his employment when he died. He had not been well for sometime, perhaps 6 months."

Mr William Crossan wrote: "I am an hotelkeeper residing at Caversham. I knew the late Henry Goodman for about 40 years. He was a horse trainer. He had been employed by me for 15 months. He went all over New Zealand with my horses. He was a very careful and reliable man."