Arthur V. Kewney

Arthur Vaux Kewney (1873 – 3 July 1956)[1] was an Australian thoroughbred horseracing official, secretary of the Victoria Racing Club for 21 years.

Kewney was born in Cheshire, England, and served a five-year apprenticeship as clerk to a Liverpool cotton-broking firm.

He left England to work as a clerk in Newfoundland and New Brunswick but returned home and found employment as a traveller for a firm of paint manufacturers.

[3] He had always been interested in the turf, having memories as a lad in Liverpool of seeing Count Charles Kinsky on Zoedone winning the Grand National in 1883, and Voluptuary, ridden by E. P. Wilson, take the same race in 1884.

He was appointed secretary of the South Australian Jockey Club in 1919, as a successor to A. O. Whitington, and was responsible for changing Morphettville from a "burrow of conservatism" [2] to a popular venue.