Shock. Disbelief. Anger. Sadness. There were no good feelings when it became official that racing in Singapore would cease in 16 months’ time. Like most racing fans, I had heard the news on Monday evening and it was a good enough reason to make tracks to my local pub for...
If the news killed our mood, we wondered just how it affected the people directly involved in the day-to-day stuff at the racecourse.
There was Ivan Allan who in 1983 took bullets to the chest from, what we reckoned, was an angry bookmaker. So the exhumation began. I watched as they dug up his grave, trying to retrieve his skeletal remains. But alas, those remains were not in good enough condition to be displayed. It backfired. The “ringer” won and the ruse was quickly discovered. The horse which was supposed to run was a gelding.
We felt sorry for guys like Michael Clements, Stephen Gray, Steven Burridge and others. This has been home. Where do they go from here? But the one who put Singapore on the world racing map and who must count Kranji as his launch pad is Brazilian Joao Moreira. As for the SIA Cup, it was perhaps the best sporting idea anyone ever had. It produced astonishing theatre and it put Singapore on the world racing map.
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