The Singapore Turf Club on Monday announced that it will hold its final race on October 2024, closing a 18-year-old chapter on horse racing.
That frequency wouldn't be fast enough for some punters, when compared to the speed and convenience offered by casinos which operate 24/7, he suggested.
Singapore's one and only horse racing club was founded in 1842 and features a 30,000-capacity grandstand, and it's operated across three venues starting in Farrer Park, then Bukit Timah, and subsequently in Kranji. The current racing club currently occupies 120 hectares of land in Kranji. And it was in these stands that Jimmy met his peers. "I've lost more money than I've won of course," he chuckled. "But I made some good friends there." When asked which is his favorite steed, Jimmy quipped: "If I say it out loud, it won't win anymore!" alluding to a betting superstition that suggests sharing which horses you've placed your bets on will diminish your chances of winning.
Jockeys on horseback dashing from the starting point of a race at the Singapore Airlines International Cup at the Singapore Turf Club on 11 May 2002
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