Moonee Ponds, Victoria Spanish 0.9% and Mandarin 0.9%. Essendon Royals soccer club are located in Moonee Ponds and play in the Victorian State League. The suburb has an Australian rules football team, Maribyrnong Park playing in the Essendon District Football League, and another, Moonee Valley Football Club, based at Ormond Park competing in the same league. Moonee Ponds Station is located at the western end of Puckle Street, on the Craigieburn railway line. Bus runs from the station to Aberfeldie. At the eastern end of Puckle Street is Moonee Ponds Junction. Tram number 82 terminates at the junction and Tram number 59 stops
Moonee Valley Racecourse Royal Melbourne Showgrounds. In 2009 the Moonee Valley Racing Club announced their redevelopment plans for the racecourse, with the relocation of the existing grandstands to make way for commercial and residential development. The works were estimated to cost $150 million, with $50 million in profit returning to the club. By 2011 the plans had expanded to cover four 20 storey high residential towers, to provide 2000 apartments and townhouses. Costing $1.4 billion, the racing club would receive $300 million. Some local residents and politicians were opposed to the plan. Moonee Valley Racecourse Moonee Valley Racecourse is a horse-racing track in