Fifteen-minute meeting ends 180 years of horse racing in Singapore

The one centesimal Singapore Gold Cup in October 2024 will mark the tip of horse racing within the city-state as its solely monitor is closed for redevelopment.

The choice made by the federal government in June got here like a thunderbolt to horse coach Mahadi Taib.

Mahadi mentioned executives of the Singapore Turf Membership, which manages Kranji Racecourse, the third monitor in its 181-year historical past, knowledgeable him and different horse trainers all of a sudden throughout a gathering on June 5 that the membership will probably be closed down and the land rented from the state will probably be returned.