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Victoria Park, Adelaide
34°55′59″S 138°37′12″E / 34.933°S 138.620°E
Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, also known as Park 16, is a park located in the Southeastern Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is bordered by Fullarton Road, Greenhill Road, East Terrace and Wakefield Road. Before 1897 it was known as the Old Adelaide Racecourse.
It has hosted several major events in recent years, the most prominent of which were the Formula 1 from 1985 to 1995, and from 1999 the Adelaide 500. This race was cancelled in 2020 for the 2021 season during the COVID pandemic, but returned in December 2022. Victoria Park is also the host of three Pedal Prix races through the year, run by the AHPVSS (Australian Human Powered Vehicle Super Series).
The park's most prominent feature was the Victoria Park Racecourse, the home course of the Adelaide Racing Club prior to its amalgamation with the South Australian Jockey Club; the main track was 2,360 metres long, with the longest home-straight of any horse racing track in Australia.
In the early days of Adelaide, races were held in this area, the East Park Lands, opposite the Britannia Hotel, (eponym of the Britannia Roundabout), the course redefined from time to time. These were no doubt very fine horses, but gentlemen's hacks not thoroughbreds, and ridden by their owners, not professional jockeys.
A Turf Club was formed in August 1838, conducting two-day meetings in January 1839 and January 1840, then folded. It was re-formed in 1848, adopting Newmarket Rules to obviate the kind of disputes which sank its predecessor, and vice-regal patronage to ensure access to the racecourse. In the ensuing years, racing activity centred on "private matches" between horses, such as that between Mercury and Coronet, often attracting great public interest and consequent wagers. Three-day "summer meetings" were held in January 1850 on a new track in November 1850, November 1851, December 1852, and December 1853. Similar "autumn meetings" were held in May 1854 and April 1855
The South Australian Jockey Club was formed in January 1856, and conducted the autumn meetings in April 1856, April 1857, April 1858, April 1859, April 1860, April 1861, and April 1862
The Adelaide suburb of Thebarton was a popular area for equestrian events, and numerous hurdle and other races were held there in the 1850s and earlier, in the streets and through properties of sympathetic landowners. A course was laid out on land held by E. M. Bagot and Gabriel Bennett of Bagot & Bennett, stock agents — Section 48, bounded by the thoroughfares now known as Henley Beach Road, South Road, Darebin Street and Bagot Avenue. Non-club meetings were held in January 1859, January 1860, and April 1861.
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Victoria Park, Adelaide
34°55′59″S 138°37′12″E / 34.933°S 138.620°E
Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, also known as Park 16, is a park located in the Southeastern Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is bordered by Fullarton Road, Greenhill Road, East Terrace and Wakefield Road. Before 1897 it was known as the Old Adelaide Racecourse.
It has hosted several major events in recent years, the most prominent of which were the Formula 1 from 1985 to 1995, and from 1999 the Adelaide 500. This race was cancelled in 2020 for the 2021 season during the COVID pandemic, but returned in December 2022. Victoria Park is also the host of three Pedal Prix races through the year, run by the AHPVSS (Australian Human Powered Vehicle Super Series).
The park's most prominent feature was the Victoria Park Racecourse, the home course of the Adelaide Racing Club prior to its amalgamation with the South Australian Jockey Club; the main track was 2,360 metres long, with the longest home-straight of any horse racing track in Australia.
In the early days of Adelaide, races were held in this area, the East Park Lands, opposite the Britannia Hotel, (eponym of the Britannia Roundabout), the course redefined from time to time. These were no doubt very fine horses, but gentlemen's hacks not thoroughbreds, and ridden by their owners, not professional jockeys.
A Turf Club was formed in August 1838, conducting two-day meetings in January 1839 and January 1840, then folded. It was re-formed in 1848, adopting Newmarket Rules to obviate the kind of disputes which sank its predecessor, and vice-regal patronage to ensure access to the racecourse. In the ensuing years, racing activity centred on "private matches" between horses, such as that between Mercury and Coronet, often attracting great public interest and consequent wagers. Three-day "summer meetings" were held in January 1850 on a new track in November 1850, November 1851, December 1852, and December 1853. Similar "autumn meetings" were held in May 1854 and April 1855
The South Australian Jockey Club was formed in January 1856, and conducted the autumn meetings in April 1856, April 1857, April 1858, April 1859, April 1860, April 1861, and April 1862
The Adelaide suburb of Thebarton was a popular area for equestrian events, and numerous hurdle and other races were held there in the 1850s and earlier, in the streets and through properties of sympathetic landowners. A course was laid out on land held by E. M. Bagot and Gabriel Bennett of Bagot & Bennett, stock agents — Section 48, bounded by the thoroughfares now known as Henley Beach Road, South Road, Darebin Street and Bagot Avenue. Non-club meetings were held in January 1859, January 1860, and April 1861.
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