Henley Beach Road property, which he dubbed "Fulham Park", was in 1880, and was held annually for many years thereafter. He soon found he could get a better price for his thoroughbreds once they had been raced: before Richmond was raced he could not get £300 for him, but after his appearance on the turf he was sold for 500 guineas. He most notable success was when his Port Admiral won the 1894 Adelaide Cup. In 1882 he instituted he "Fulham Stud Sires Produce Stakes" for two-year-old progeny of Winterlake and Countryman, and the "Fulham Park Plate" races, for which he subscribed prizes of 100 guineas, under the auspices of the A.R.C. Blackler acted as Judge on the Old Course for many years, and was on the committee and a Steward of the Adelaide Racing Club. He also acted as Judge for the S. A. Tattersalls Club and for the Onkaparinga Racing Club, and was on the Tattersalls Club Committee for some years, and was re-elected shortly before his death. Between 1880 and April 1882 three of the lessees dropped out for various reasons, leaving only Blackler and Ferry. Several committeemen dropped out, alarmed at the club's ballooning financial liability, leaving the committee short of the quorum necessary to appoint replacements, and the Club had to be re-booted. In late 1882 Blackler, Ferry and William Gordon purchased "Evanston", the training ground of James Jenkins on the outskirts of Gawler, at a cost of £5,000, with the intention of making it into the Gawler Racecourse, and lost no time in agitating for a Racing Club to be formed along the lines of the A.R.C. They soon had a grandstand built. This venture could be seen as a way of circumventing the limit of three meetings per year at which the totalizator could be used at the Old Course, but stymied by the Totalizator Repeal Act of 1883. In 1885 a consortium of businessmen led by W. Rounsevell, keen to improve the profitability of the Morphettville course, which included adding extra facilities like a steeplechase course and a plumpton (coursing track), and closing down the "Old Course", offered to purchase the lease from Ferry and Blackler. They could not however countenance Ferry's asking price of £5000. He had, for no obvious reasons apart from grandiosity and the desire to upstage the S.A.J.C., invested twice as much on improvements as the Council conditions