Doctor Wayne Peake

Doctor Wayne Peake

Adjunct Fellow,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts

Biography

Wayne achieved the award Doctor Of Philosophy at Western Sydney University for the thesis 'Unregistered proprietary horse racing in Sydney 1888-1942'. His primary research interests are the cultural history of horse racing, the morphology of the racecourses of Sydney, and historical racecourse design and infrastructure.

Wayne's recent publications include:  Sydney Racing in the 1970s: an illustrated Companion (Volume 1), published in October 2023; a biography of racing writer Bert Lillye in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (2020); two articles in the Australian Turf Club The Races magazine (Autumn 2018) - 'A Loveletter to the Slipper' and 'Rosehill: Racing's Oasis of the West';  the monograph Wandrin' Star: Wild Jack Peake of Peakhurst, a collection of stories and sketches of his father;  chapters in the Cambridge Companion to Horseracing ('Sydney or the Bush'), 2013 Cambridge University Press; The Big Book of Australian Racing Stories, 2015 Allen & Unwin Australia;  the Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 18 2012  ('George Ryder'); and the collection of racing novellas and  short stories The Gambler's Ghost and Other Racing Oddities, 2012 Ascot Press.  A second collection of short stories, The Jockeys V Trainers Cricket Match and Other Racing Stories is in development. Wayne has had four articles published  in The Conversation. He has provided an entry on the racing theorist and commentator Don Scott, for the next volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Wayne has worked previously for the University of Technology Sydney, The Sydney Turf Club, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, News Ltd and Telstra.

More information on Wayn Peake is available at his website https://waynepeake.com.au

This information has been contributed by Doctor Peake.

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Western Sydney

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts

Contact

Email: W.Peake@westernsydney.edu.au
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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 100846 Analytical Reading and Writing, 2016

Publications

Books

  • Peake, W. (2015), 'Wandrin' Star: Wild Jack Peake of Peakhurst', : Ascot Press 9780994340702.

Chapters in Books

  • Peake, W. (2020), 'Lillye, Albert John (Bert) (1919-1996)', Australian Dictionary of Biography (Online), Australian National University, National Centre of Biography .
  • Peake, W. (2013), 'Sydney or the bush : adaptation, centrality and periphery in Australian horseracing', The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing, Cambridge University Press 9781107013858.
  • Peake, W. (2008), 'Taking the Heat Out of the 'Red Hots': The Americanisation of harness racing in Australia', A Global Racecourse: Work, Culture and Horse Sports, Australian Society for Sports History 9780980481501.

Journal Articles

  • Peake, W. (2018), 'Rosehill Gardens : racing's oasis of the west', The Races, vol 2018, no Autumn , pp 70 - 75.
  • Peake, W. (2004), 'The significance of unregistered proprietary pony racing in the social history of Sydney horse racing', Sporting Traditions: the Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History, vol 20, no 2 .

Other Publications

  • 2023, 'Sydney Racing in the 1970s: An Illustrated Companion. Volume One', Published Work
  • 2012, 'The Gambler's Ghost and Other Racing Oddities', Published Work

Selected Publications and Articles

Article: 'Michelle Payne defies horse racing's long history as a sport of blokes', The Conversation 6 November 2015, https://theconversation.com/michelle-payne-defies-horse-racings-long-history-as-a-sport-of-blokes-50242

Book: Wandrin' Star: Wild Jack Peake of Peakhurst, Ascot Press, Sydney 2015

Book Chapter: 'Sydney or the Bush': adaptation, centrality and periphery in Australian horseracing, in Rebecca Cassidy (ed), Cambridge Companion to Horseracing, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2013.

Book: The Gambler’s Ghost and Other Racing Oddities, Ascot Press, Sydney, 2012.

Book Chapter: ‘George Ryder’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 18, Australian National University Press, Canberra 2012.

Journal Article: 'History of pony racing on early Sydney tracks part 2, Bluebloods, March 2009, pp 30-32.

Journal Article: 'History of pony racing on early Sydney tracks part 1, Bluebloods, February 2009, pp 37-38.

Book Chapter: ‘Taking the heat out of the "Red Hots": the Americanization of harness racing in Australia?’ Australian Society for Sports History Studies no. 23, A Global Racecourse: work, culture and horse sports, September 2008.

Book: Sydney's Pony Racecourses: An Alternative Racing History, Sydney: Walla Walla Press 2006

Edited book (with Professor Stephanie Lawson) Globalization and Regionalization: Views from the Pacific Rim, the fourth volume in the series ‘Pacific Rim: Globalization, Regionalization, and Domestic Trajectories’ (2006).

Journal article: ‘Taking the heat out of the "Red Hots": has the Americanization of harness racing in Australia been a shot in the arm-or the hoof?’ Harness Racing International, March/April 2006 Melbourne, Ellikon. 2006. http://www.iis.uts.edu.au/research/HRI.pdf

Edited book (with Dr Kate Barclay), Convergences and Exclusions: Regional Integration and Social Change around the Pacific Rim, the second volume in the series ‘Pacific Rim: Globalization, Regionalization, and Domestic Trajectories’ (2005).

Journal article: ‘The significance of proprietary pony racing in the social history of Sydney horse racing’, Sporting Traditions (Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History), May 2004: http://home.iprimus.com.au/marclambourne/

Book chapters: ‘Bidding for the Games’ and ‘Torch Relay’ in The Official Report of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, http://www.gamesinfo.com.au/postgames/en/pg000449.htm (credits)(2000).

Journal Article: 'Rosebery, where the Baron Ruled the Turf, Australasian Turf Monthly, July 1995.

Journal article: 'Victoria Park; the Randwick of the Ponies', Australasian Turf Monthly, February 1995.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Peake.

Media

Title: Wayne Peake
Description: Personal website
Title: The race that stops the nation also holds many weird and wonderful stories
Description: Article in The Conversation 31 October 2016

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