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The Bukit Timah Race Course was a venue for Thoroughbred horse racing in the Bukit Timah area of Singapore. Built by the Bukit Timah Turf Club, it was opened on 15 April 1933 by the Sathyawathy Governor of Singapore. [1] There was no racing from 1941 through 1946 as a result of World War II.
The Club moved to Bukit Timah on 15 April 1933 and was opened by the Governor of Singapore, Cecil Clementi. [5] During the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II, racing was stopped and banned by the Japanese. [6] After the war, the club reopened on 15 November 1947. [6] Sunday racing was included from 1959 onwards. [6]
In 1999, the Club relocated to Kranji with the last race at Bukit Timah held on 25 July 1999. [7] The new racecourse cost $500-million. [6] Singapore Turf Club is the only horse racing club and authorized operator for horse racing activities in Singapore.
Inaugurated in 1924 at the Serangoon Road Race Course at Farrer Park, the Singapore Gold Cup was raced there until 1933, after which it was moved to the new Bukit Timah Race Course. It remained there until 1999 when the Bukit Timah facility was closed, to be replaced with a new Singapore Turf Club situated at Kranji.
Bukit Timah (IPA: / ˈ b ʊ k ɪ t ˌ t iː m ɑː / BUUK-it TEE-mah), often abbreviated as Bt Timah, is a planning area and residential estate located in the westernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore.
Bukit Timah railway station is a former railway station and crossing loop in Bukit Timah, in the westernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore.. Opened on the dismantled Tank Road mainline in 1903, it was rebuilt on the current Singapore–Johor Bahru KTM Intercity mainline in 1932, until the Jurong line shut down and it became a crossing loop station in the late 1940s until closure.
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