Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Horse Racing in Singapore

If you are a sports enthusiast you can enjoy a wide variety of sports during your trip to Singapore.  There are a number of sports activities that you can opt for during your leisure time. Singapore is a well known tourist destination that is frequented by millions of tourists every year. Most of them find the sports activities as well as the recreational facilities in Singapore very amusing. There are ample  scope of enjoying  water sports and at the  same time you can also enjoy a wide variety of  games that  you can  play  on land. These games include horse racing, cycling and a lot more.  participating  in these  games  you  can not  only have a lot of  fun  but also  can  enjoy the bliss of  body fitness.

 

Horse racing  is  one of the  most  well known  form of  land bound  sport  in  Singapore. This sport is liked by both the tourists as well as the locals alike.  This sport is popular for quite sometimes in Singapore.  Horse racing in Singapore has a long and illustrious history. The horse racing first began in Singapore in the year 1842 when a group of horse racing enthusiasts established the well known Singapore Sporting Club.


Horse racing in Singapore has a varied and colorful past. The grounds that have been used as race courses were also used for a variety of things in the past. These activities included polo matches and other activities. The race course ground is also used as a ground for landing the first aircraft in Singapore. Later  in  the  year  1924  Singapore Sporting Club  changed its  name and became Singapore  Turf  Club. This name helped the club to reflect their role in a better way.  


If you  are  a racing  enthusiast  too, then  you  can  have  a lot of fun participating  in any  horse racing  tournament. You can also enjoy watching a horse racing as a spectator too.

 

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