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Big Stable Newmarket, NSW Australia
| Address | Young Street,
Sydney Suburbs
New South Wales, 2031, Australia |
The Big Stables have been restored and returned to their original use. Some of Australia's top race horses were trained from this stable behind the
Newmarket Hotel. A plaque has been erected on the site by the Randwick City Council, detailing the history of the site, the horses and trainers.
'The Big Stable' built c.1880. A number of prominent racing men including Thomas Payten, Jim Pike, William Inglis and Son and W.J. Smith owned and leased
stable. During World War II used as detention barracks and after the war as a laminex factory. Recently restored and returned to its original use by its
present owners WM. Inglis and Son.
The presence of Randwick racecourse, where racing was first held in 1833, brought to the suburb trainers, jockeys and stablehands, and from them
developed a local racing industry which continues to this day. The 'Big Stable' was used as a set in the film "Phar Lap." The stables were restored in the mid
1980's and received a Royal Australian Institute of Architecture Award, the Greenway Award, for conservation.
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