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The Singapore Racecourse/ Singapore Turf Club is a venue for thoroughbred horse racing, situated in Kranji, next to the Kranji MRT station.Built and operated by the Singapore Turf Club, it opened on 4 March 2000, replacing the Bukit Timah Race Course.
The Raffles Cup was inaugurated in 1991 at the Bukit Timah Race Course and raced there through 1999 when the track was closed to be replaced by the new Kranji Racecourse. It has been raced over a distance of: 1,600 metres from 1991 through to 2000; 1,800 metres from 2001 to 2017; 1,600 metres from 2018 onwards.
The Kranji Mile is a thoroughbred horse race held annually in May at Singapore Turf Club.The race was first introduced in 2000. Contested on turf over a left-handed course, the domestic Group 1 race (also an International Group 3 race recognised in The Blue Book by the International Federation of Horseracing) is run over a 1,600-metre (8 furlongs) distance and is open to horses age three and ...
This win made him the first horse on the Malayan Racing Association circuit to establish a run of 10 consecutive wins. [ 5 ] In February 2011, Better Than Ever had a tally of 13 wins from 14 race starts, including the G1 Raffles Cup over 1,800 metres and the G1 Kranji Mile over 1,600 m, plus the G2 3YO Classic over 1,400 m.
The KrisFlyer International Sprint is a former Thoroughbred horse race held at Kranji Racecourse in Singapore. Contested on turf over a left-handed course, the International Group 1 sprint race was run over a distance of 1,200 meters (6 furlongs) and was open to horses aged three and older. It offered a purse of S$1,000,000 (about US$800,000 ...
Ireland has a rich history of horse racing; point to pointing originated there, and even today, jump racing is more popular than racing on the flat. As a result, every year Irish horse racing fans travel in huge numbers to the highlight event of the National Hunt calendar, the Cheltenham Festival , and in recent years Irish owned or bred horses ...
Kranji is a suburb in northwestern Singapore. Kranji may also refer to: Kranji Bus Depot, a bus depot at Kranji Road in Kranji, Singapore; Kranji drombus, one of ten species of goby; Kranji Expressway, an Expressway in Singapore; Kranji Marshes, a nature reserve in the northwest area of Singapore; Kranji Mile, a thoroughbred horse race at ...
Horse racing in India is over 200 years old. The first racecourse in the country was set up in Madras in 1777. [ 1 ] Today, India has a very well-established horse racing and breeding industry, the sport is conducted on nine racetracks by six racing authorities.