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As well as being NSW's premier racecourse south of Sydney, Kembla Grange Racecourse is also a fantastic fully licensed Function Centre. We offer a perfect blend of charm, sophistication and affordability in ideal surroundings for your reception, party, conference, trade show, etc.
Our team of professional staff, headed by Functions Manager Lindsey Barnaba and Executive Chef Matthew Redman, can produce tailor-made packages for your function ensuring the highest possible results are achieved.
LOCATION
Located along the Princes Highway at the foothills of the Illawarra Escarpment, Kembla Grange Racecourse is situated 95km from Sydney and 9km south of Wollongong. Click Here for a map & directions.
BEGINNINGS
Archives reveal that race meetings were staged by the original Illawarra Turf Club as long ago as 1834 on the site of the present day Wollongong Golf Course, 26 years before racing began at Royal Randwick.
However, early this century Kembla Grange estate, the present site of Kembla Grange Racecourse, was purchased by the Hon. Joseph Carruthers, who designed a course identical in size and shape to Randwick.
Numerous organisations have excersiced the management and control of racing at Kembla Grange until 1976 when the present Illawarra Turf Club was formed and conducted its first racemeeting on the 18th December 1976.
TRACK DATA
Kembla Grange Racecourse was constructed identical in size and shape to Randwick Racecourse. The course is 2200m in circumference, 25m in width and has a straight length of 420m, suiting horses that run on strongly.
RACEDAY SERVICES
Kembla Grange Racecourse has an annual turnover of more that $6.5 million a year and allocates more that $2.5 million prizemoney for its 30 race meetings a year.
Granted a full TAB service in 1984 the club has since spent upwards of $10 million on track improvements, new stables, modern grandstand and associated reception facilities.
The opening of the A.J. "Bert" Lillye lounge with accomodation for 400 raceday patrons in 1997 has been another significant development in recent times.
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