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Five-Dock Grand Steeple-chase: The Stone Wall. Mr Garrick on British Yeoman. Mr Watt on Highflier. Mr Hely on Block, 1844

By
Thomas Balcombe
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1712003 / PXD 659, 3]
(Mitchell Library)

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Balcombe, Thomas

State Library of New South Wales

Sport

Sport has long been important in Sydney life, interwoven with its fabric and culture. The ritual contests and physical activity of the Aboriginal people gave way to the informal, disreputable and often cruel pastimes of the early nineteenth century. The late nineteenth century saw the development of formal codes and organised leagues, leading to the commercialised, professional sports of the present.

Horseracing

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Birkenhead Point

South easterly point on the Drummoyne peninsula. Once home to a tyre factory, now redeveloped into a shopping centre.

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Five Dock

Inner western residential suburb. Five 'docks', or rocky inlets, on the peninsula gave their name to the farm of Surgeon John Harris in 1806.

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Five Dock racecourse

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Racecourse at Duttons Point on Five Dock Farm, which was owned by Charles Abercrombie. The first Australian steeplechase was held here on 19 September 1844. Duttons Point is now Birkenhead Point.