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A rowing club in Sandown also existed from c.1900 until World War II. [4] In December 1954 at a meeting at the Grange Hotel, the club reformed as a merger of Shanklin and Sandown. [5] A new boathouse was built on Osborne Beach the following year and remained as the club's base until 1975, when the present stone clubhouse was constructed nearby. [3]
Built for the Victoria Amateur Turf Club, Sandown is the only metropolitan racecourse built in the 20th century and was opened before a crowd of 52,000, in June 1965. [3] The original course was a turfed oval shape, 1892 metres in circumference and 30 metres wide, with sweeping cambered turns and an uphill home straight of 407 metres.
Sandown has a population of 11,654 according to the 2021 Census, [1] and the three Sandown Bay settlements form a built-up area of more than 20,000 inhabitants. [2] Sandown is the Bay's northernmost town, with its easily accessible, sandy beaches running continuously from the cliffs below Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north.
Replacements for some of the Festival's races were held at Sandown in late April, and the equivalent of the Queen Mother Champion Chase was a Grade 1 event called the Championship Chase. The following year the race returned as the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Celebration Chase, in memory of the Queen Mother (1900–2002), who frequently ...
Sandown Park is a horse racing course and leisure venue in Esher, Surrey, England, located in the outer suburbs of London. It hosts 5 Grade One National Hunt races and one Group 1 flat race, the Eclipse Stakes .
Sandown Greyhounds or Sandown Park is a greyhound racing track located in Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [1] Sandown Park is operated by the Sandown Greyhound Racing Club and hosts the Melbourne Cup and the Sandown Cup. [2] The track opened on 8 September 1956 [3] and typically races every Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon. [1]
The present day Sanctuary is housed inside the shell of Sandown Fort, which was built in 1864. A zoo was first established on the site in the 1950s, originally known as Sandown Zoo before becoming the Isle of Wight Zoo in the 1970s. By this time it had fallen into disrepair, and was dubbed "The Slum Zoo of Britain" by The Sunday Times.
HMS Sandown (1916), one of 24 Racecourse-class paddle wheel minesweepers, and was launched in 1916 and broken up in 1923. HMS Sandown (1939), a paddle wheel ferry built in 1934 for Southern Railway's Portsmouth—Ryde service but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to a minesweeper, and later in 1942 to an anti-aircraft ship ...