When Melbourne can have an expanded 9 days of premier spring racing, 3 days at Caulfield, 1 day at Moonee Valley, 4 days at Flemington, and 1 day at Sandown, still attracting large crowds  

While Sydney has now wrapped 4 days into 1 day, and while the prize money is still lucrative, few are sharing in it.

Yet Sydney still have 4 city courses, Randwick, Rosehill, Warwick Farm and Canterbury, that would be on the short list for possible closure, if it wasn’t for the quarantine station built there.

As for the breeding farms in New South Wales, they have been established by the pioneers that settled into the country areas, hundreds of kilometres from Sydney, but that was not always the case in Victoria, P J Arthur established Maribyrnong Park in Buckley Street   Essendon, within 10 kilometres from the city of Melbourne.