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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.
Singapore Turf Club is the only horse racing club and authorized operator for horse racing activities in Singapore. It also operates the Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre (STCRC), a 3-hectare site with riding arenas adjacent to the Singapore Racecourse at Kranji.
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.
It was the only horse-racing club in Singapore and is part of the Malayan Racing Association. The first race was held on 23 February 1843 with a prize money of $150. [ 2 ] The club closed in 1988 after the Singapore Totaliser Board (Tote Board) formed the Bukit Turf Club (BTC) to take over all racing activities.
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 ...
The Singapore Airlines International Cup was a Group 1 flat horse race in Singapore open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It was run at Kranji over a distance of 2,000 metres (about 1¼ miles), in May each year. It has been discontinued from 2016 onwards. It was established as an international event at the newly opened Kranji ...
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 ...
In 2008 El Dorado won the event, making him the first ever Japanese-bred horse trained in Singapore to win a Singapore Group 1 race. To mark its move from Bukit Timah to Kranji in 1999, Singapore Turf Club raised the prizemoney to $1 million and opened the race to international contenders, but the race returned to domestic status three years later.