The last race was run at Warwick Farm on July 15, 1973. No one knew it at the time, but the venue’s owner, the Australian Jockey Club, had already decided it no longer needed the car racers, now that it was swimming in cash from the New South Wales government’s new legal TAB horse racing gambling network.
Interestingly, the earthworks for the planned section of link road to create a new ‘northern’ circuit outside the bounds of the horse track had already been done - this was meant to have saved motor racing at the Farm by ‘quarantining’ it from the G-Gs, but the AJC wanted nothing to do with it.
The main event that day was the eighth round of the ATCC, which was won by Peter Brock in his Holden Dealer Team Torana LJ XU-1 after a fierce, race-long battle with Bob Morris’ Ron Hodgson XU-1. It was Brock’s first and only win at Warwick Farm, a venue which admittedly he had only been to on a handful of occasions.
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