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===Horse racing=== [[Broadmeadow Racecourse]] is in the suburb of [[Broadmeadow]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Newcastle Racecourse | website=Newcastle Racecourse | date=16 March 2020 | url=https://www.newcastleracecourse.com.au/locations/newcastle-racecourse/ | access-date=17 October 2022 | archive-date=17 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017062745/https://www.newcastleracecourse.com.au/locations/newcastle-racecourse/ | url-status=live }}</ref> It is home to the Newcastle Jockey Club, established in 1907,<ref>{{cite web | title=Newcastle Jockey Club: Our history | website=Newcastle Racecourse | date=26 August 2020 | url=https://www.newcastleracecourse.com.au/newcastle-jockey-club/ | access-date=17 October 2022 | archive-date=17 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017062814/https://www.newcastleracecourse.com.au/newcastle-jockey-club/ | url-status=live }}</ref> which ({{as of| 2016|lc=yes}}) races 35 times annually at the spacious {{Convert|2000|m|0|adj=on}} turf track with a {{Convert|415|m|0|adj=on}} home straight. It is the venue for three [[Group races|Group 3]] races: in March is the {{convert|1400|m|mi|adj=on}} [[Newcastle Newmarket Handicap]]; and in September the 1,400-metre [[Cameron Handicap]], and the {{convert|2300|m|mi|adj=on}} [[Newcastle Gold Cup]]. In 2015 work an inner track, known as the Beaumont Track, was added.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.racingnsw.com.au/site/_content/document/00001429-source.pdf|title=Beaumont Track (Newcastle)|date=2015|access-date=11 September 2016|work=Racing NSW (Aus.)|archive-date=16 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316003325/http://www.racingnsw.com.au/site/_content/document/00001429-source.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Aboriginal Australian|Aboriginal]] jockey [[Merv Maynard]] commenced his career at Newcastle Racecourse, under Keith Tinson.<ref name="jm1998">{{cite journal | last=Maynard | first=John | title=Aboriginal stars of the pigskin | journal=[[Aboriginal History]] | publisher=ANU Press | volume=22 | year=1998 | issn=0314-8769 | jstor=24046163 | pages=116β142 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24046163 | access-date=17 October 2022 | archive-date=17 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017051638/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24046163 | url-status=live }}</ref> Maynard enjoyed his first success in the 1948β49 season there, and went on to have a career spanning 50 years,<ref name="turf">{{cite web |last=Maynard |first=John |date=1 June 2016 |title=The Indigenous contribution to the Australian turf |url=https://www.punters.com.au/news/the-indigenous-contribution-to-the-australian-turf-20160601/ |access-date=17 October 2022 |website=Punters Australia |archive-date=17 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017014457/https://www.punters.com.au/news/the-indigenous-contribution-to-the-australian-turf-20160601/ |url-status=live }}</ref> winning the Newcastle Premiership twice, along with 1,500 winning rides in four countries.<ref>{{cite web | last=Callinan | first=Josh | title=Maynard remembered as trail blazing jockey of era | website=[[Newcastle Herald]] | date=13 April 2017 | url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/4597864/maynard-remembered-as-trail-blazing-jockey-of-era/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015011248/https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/4597864/maynard-remembered-as-trail-blazing-jockey-of-era/ | archive-date=15 October 2022 | url-status=live | access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref>
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