page_title: Wentworth Park
section_title: Sporting Complex
hierarchical_section_title: Wentworth Park / Sporting Complex
caption_attribution_description: English: Wentworth Park, grandstand
context_page_description: Wentworth Park is a park near the suburbs of Glebe and Ultimo in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  The park contains several muti-purpose sporting pitches, cricket nets and a number of fitness installations. There is a playground in the southern area of the park and seating for picnics. Public toilets are next to the sports field.
  In the centre of the park is the Wentworth Park Sporting Complex.
context_section_description: Wentworth Park Sporting Complex is a multi-purpose sporting facility Over the years, the facility has been used for various sports including soccer, rugby union, rugby league, greyhound racing, and speedway. Wentworth Park is located two kilometres (one mile) from the Sydney central business district.
  Greyhound racing is conducted at Wentworth Park on Wednesday and Saturday nights as well as some special events. Greyhound races are conducted over 520 and 720 metres (1,706 and 2,362 ft). The track is a sand surface having been converted from grass in the 1990s. Hurdle racing was a feature of Wentworth Park until the early 1980s. It fell away and annual events were held in December for a number of years until the mid-1990s.
  The nearby University of Technology, Sydney and other educational facilities regularly hold student examinations within two levels of the grandstand.
  Tenants to the Wentworth Park complex include Language Testing Consultants (LTC), the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE), the Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers Association (GBOTA) and Ladbrokes.
  The infield oval is used by local schools as well other community sporting groups for sporting events.
  Since the 1980s, the Greyhound Owners Breeders and Trainers Association (GBOTA) has been the primary tenant of Wentworth Park (previously sharing with the now defunct NSW National Coursing Association Club). Greyhound racing is held at the venue every Wednesday and Saturday nights from 7.30pm. The biggest event of the year at Wentworth Park is the Group 1 Golden Easter Egg which provides prize money of A$1,000,000 across the Easter carnival. The Carnival attracts approximately 25,000 racegoers. The final night is held annually on Easter Saturday.
  Wentworth Park is also the home ground of semi-professional association football club Balmain Tigers FC who play in the NSW State League Division 1, the third division of football in New South Wales.
  On 5 January 2018, it was announced that the Glebe Dirty Reds would return to Wentworth Park to play pre-season games which would be the first time that rugby league has been played there in 90 years.  The matches also featured The Newtown Jets and The Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles. On 17 February 2019, the Glebe Dirty Reds played in a pre-season trial game against the North Sydney Bears at Wentworth Park; and won, 24-12.  This was the first time the two clubs had met since 1929. The day also featured two other matches with the Newtown Jets playing against the North Sydney Intrust Super Premiership NSW side and Ryde-Eastwood against Sydney University rugby league team.
caption: Wentworth Park, playing fields and grandstand
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