The first Tattersall's Club in Adelaide was founded in 1879 and folded in 1886. It was revived as the South Australian Tattersalls Club in 1888 and prospered as a gentlemen's club, whose membership was chiefly composed of men who enjoyed gambling on horse races. History The South Australian Tattersalls Club had its origin in a Tattersall's Club founded with 55 members on 27 May 1879, with similar rules and objectives to the Sydney and Melbourne Tattersalls Clubs. The meeting was held at the instigation of William Blackler at his Globe Hotel on Rundle Street, and several rooms in the hotel were set aside for the club's activities, principally gambling, no doubt to the benefit of bookmakers. Blackler then sold the publican's licence to fellow horse breeder J. H. Aldridge. Around this time the club moved its activities to John "Glenorchy" McDonald's Theatre Royal Hotel on Hindley Street, before returning to the Globe in May 1884. In 1886 the club folded. A fresh start In September 1888 Arthur John Usher, the Globe's new lessee, called a meeting at which a decision was made to form a new club to be called "South Australian Tattersalls Club" and take over the assets and debts of the old club. The new committee consisted of P. F. Bonnin (chairman). F. O. Bruce, George Boothby, William Pile, T. F. Wigley, S. J. Jacobs, E. W. Ellis, H. H. Young, and Dr. Cawley. with W. Filgate as secretary. In 1890 the club once again moved to the Theatre Royal Hotel. In 1894 the club moved to a leased building on the north side of Grenfell Street and west of Gawler Place. The building was altered and furnished, and officially opened on 15 November 1894. Six years later the club purchased the premises for £3,000. The club's popularity grew, and soon the building was too small for the accommodation of members, and the committee embarked on an ambitious program of expansion, demolishing the old building and replacing it with one of four storeys, the tallest in the city. The new building, which cost the club approximately £29,000, was opened on 24 December 1917. Samuel J. Jacobs (1853–1937) has been credited with much of the club's success in this period. The club premises were enlarged again in 1928, after purchase of adjoining and virtual duplication of the existing building. The new section was opened on 27 August 1928. Race