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:''For the park in Camperdown, Sydney, see Victoria Park, Sydney'' Victoria Park Racecourse was a racecourse in Zetland, an inner-city suburb, south of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was bordered by O’Dea Avenue, South Dowling Street, Epsom Road and Joynton Avenue. The site was originally a lagoon and swamp which was drained in the early 1900s to create the racecourse.〔Weirick, J.(Watering Sydney ). Architecture Australia, accessed 13 January 2008.〕 The racecourse was privately owned and developed by Sir James John Joynton Smith (1858–1943), a hotelier, racecourse and newspaper owner.〔( Smith, Sir James John Joynton (1858 - 1943) ) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition. Accessed 13 January 2008.〕 It was said at the time to be the grandest and finest of the pony horseracing courses in Sydney. In 1908 a clay-and-cinders track of 1.81 kilometres in length was built around the horseracing course and was utilised for speedway racing by both cars and motorcycles until the early 1920s.〔The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, 1986, page 517〕 During World War II the site was used for an aircraft factory.〔 The racecourse was bought by British businessman Lord Nuffield in 1947 and from 1950 the site was utilised by Nuffield Australia for a motor vehicle assembly facility.〔BMC-Leyland Australia Heritage Group, Building Cars in Australia, 2012, page 21〕 Vehicle production was continued by Nuffield Australia and its successors BMC Australia and Leyland Australia 〔BMC-Leyland Australia Heritage Group, Building Cars in Australia, 2012, page 176〕 until the factory was closed in 1975.〔BMC-Leyland Australia Heritage Group, Building Cars in Australia, 2012, page 166〕 The site was acquired by the Commonwealth of Australia for a Naval Stores depot which operated until the mid-1990s. The site is currently undergoing redevelopment into high density housing. A three-storey totalisator building remains on the site, used as a site office by the redevelopers and now part of the complex.〔Peake, W. (Unregistered Proprietary Horseracing in Sydney, 1888-1942 ) University of Western Sydney, December 2004.〕 The racecourse is also remembered in ''Tote Park'', a small park on the site. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victoria Park Racecourse, Sydney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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