Bluestone with racing history at Glenroy
Title TattleDecember 7, 2020
Gowrie House, Glenroy, once owned by a Phar Lap jockey, has been listed for sale.
The heritage-listed 1855 bluestone home was owned by one of the six jockeys who ever rode Phar Lap, Bobbie Lewis. He rode Phar Lap to third place in the 1929 Melbourne Cup.
He won four Melbourne Cups, eight Victoria Derbies, seven Crown Oaks and eight SAJC St Legers in a career spanning more than 40 years.
Inducted into the Victoria Racing Club’s Hall of Fame in 2002, the Bobbie Lewis Quality Handicap is run at Flemington every year in September.
His former home at 63 Gowrie Street, is listed at $2.1 million.
The two-level slate roofed Georgian-style property is on 1500 sqm is offered through Boran Real Estate Sunshine agent Sabine Gazic.