Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Regal Turf Club guarantees another time of stallion dashing

"Horse dashing, the courteous fellow's game will be restored to its previous brilliance with the arrangement of the Royal Turf Club', guaranteed Wayne Wood, inaugural Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Stipendiary Stewards of the RTC, tending to the stuffed media briefing, held to authoritatively dispatch the RTC.

Mr Woods was eager in his confirmation of the way that the control of stallion hustling standards and offense on the race course, where doping of steeds and other unscrupulous practices held influence, were presently a relic of times gone by.
Talking on what assents would be forced on anybody disregarding the medication control program in Sri Lanka concerning the game,



Mr. Woods said "the medication control project will be on the same lines of the Asian Racing Federation which is additionally working in New Zealand, Australia, India, Japan and different parts of the world."

Mr. Sinclair Marshall who takes up the position of Thoroughbred Riding teacher and Stipendiary Steward of the RTC, said he was pleased to be in Sri Lanka and be a piece of the group in charge of setting up Sri Lanka as a local center for stallion dashing. Mr Marshall has ridden 8 Derby victors, while he was Champion Jockey on a few events in the Bombay, Pune, Madras and Mysore Turf Clubs.

Headed by equestrian Suranjith Premadasa who is the President of the Royal Turf Club and needs no presentation, the other office bearers of the RTC are, Secretary Mrs Lucille Dahanayake and Treasurer Mr Nishitha Rupasinghe while the Committee includes Ranjith Dahanayake, Nihara Jayatilleke and Sudarshana Deshapriya.

Horse hustling was first acquainted with Sri Lanka in the 1840's by Mr. John Baker , with the inaugural race occurring at the Nuwara Eliya Race Course in 1875. In 1910, the then Governor of Ceylon, Sir Henry Edward McCallum, initiated the prestigious Governor's Cup and in addition the Queen's Cup. Amid the mid 1950's Ceylon horse dashing was busy's crest and indeed assumed pride of position in the whole area.

In 2000 the Ministry of Sports assumed control over the responsibility for Nuwara Eliya Race Course and from that point, to date it has been overseen by the Sugathadasa National Sports Complex Authority, under the Ministry of Sports.

The Nuwara Eliya Race Course has an outline of 1800 meters and is arranged at 1868 meters above ocean level, in what has ended up being a standout amongst the most picturesque tracks in the whole district.

It is the order of the RTC to restore the game of steed dashing to its previous conventions of honorable lead and build up it not simply as a donning action in Sri Lanka, yet to make the Nuwara Eliya Race course the center point of local steed hustling action, thus advancing Sports Tourism.

The RTC has made all neccessary game plans to build up steed hustling as one of the nation's head sports, sticking to universal standards and norms. RTC runs with the adage of "Steed dashing at the most abnormal amount" which shows the height furthermore has the significance of the most astounding uprightness. The anticipated 2016 season in Nuwara Eliya will see the primary race being hung on twentieth March.

The Royai Turf Club need to date made a sizable venture to add to the foundation, which incorporates redesigning the track and supplanting the track railings, remodeling the Grand stand, Steward Room, Jockey's Rooms and all other Race Course structures which needed broad repairs. The RTC expects to proceed with it's system of advancement by contributing throughout the following two years, in association with remote financial specialists, to make Sri Lanka and Nuwara Eliya a dashing center point for the district.

The RTC under the direction of these two famous names in the worldwide universe of steed hustling, will proclaim back the magnificence that was once horse dashing in Sri Lanka, whilst adding to the longlist of vacation spots that Sri Lanka brings to the