Sport - Kerri

When this theme was first announced I had absolutely no idea where to start. I'm definitely not a sports oriented person and I don't even have one single friend who plays sport. Sure, they do crazy things like run up Mount Lofty and back, but I'm pretty sure they don't want me photographing them while they do it.. lol. I personally couldn't think of anything worse than trying to sit through a game of football or something similar so I got Googling and looked for some less mainstream sports that sounded like they might be fun to watch, as well as make for interesting photos. I thought I was on to such a winner when I discovered that over the Easter long weekend I could go and watch bike polo (like normal polo but bicycles instead of horses), parkour, tricking and kite flying. Once again illness got in the way and I didn't make it out of the house at all during Easter. I had to decide between not participating this fortnight or finding another way to represent sport that I could do quickly and easily, as even standing for more than a few minutes has been a bit of an issue for me.

I remembered that a lovely colleague who passed away a few years ago was a huge horse racing fan and a member of the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC), which brought me around to thinking about the Victoria Park Racecourse. The racecourse started up in the 1840s and was home to the SAJC until they moved to Morphetville Racecourse a few years ago following a decision to demolish Victoria Park, which was subsequently torn down in 2010. The now heritage listed grandstand, built in the 1840s when the land was first used for horse racing, still remains and is an iconic landmark in Adelaide. I decided to photograph the old grandstand and capture my own little piece of local sporting history.