Australian Turf Club (ATC)[1] owns and operates thoroughbred racing, events and hospitality venues across Sydney, Australia.

The Act had taken 40 years to draft and gave the club the power to hold 62 race meetings a year at the tracks and empowered it to wind up other proprietary clubs that still existed in the Sydney area through a special Racing Compensation Fund.

[6] Mentioned briefly in jest by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Craig Young in 2003,[7] the first real push for a merger came with the release of a report by Ernst & Young in June 2009 which recommended that a merger would save the New South Wales racing industry from collapse.

[8] The Government of New South Wales pledged $174 million for Sydney racing if the merger went ahead, including a major revitalisation of Randwick Racecourse.

[11] In 2008 the Autumn Carnival was delayed by four weeks due to the 2007 Australian equine influenza outbreak.