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Derby Day, Randwick Racecourse 1937

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Derby Day, Randwick Racecourse 1937

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Hood, Sam

State Library of New South Wales

Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

Horseracing

Horses

Randwick racecourse

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Racecourse that predates the development of the suburbs around it.