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: 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. He is currently working on The Schoolboy's Companion to Sydney Horseracing in the 1970s and a second collection of short stories, The Jockeys V Trainers Cricket Match and Other Racing Stories. He has had four articles published in The Conversation. He has provided biographical articles on the racing writer Bert Lillye, and the racing theorist and commentator Don Scott, for the next volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. He has also written for Australian Turf Monthly, Bluebloods Magazine and Harness Racing Australia.
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.
