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Perak Turf Club

Ipoh, Italy

Perak Turf Club

Perak Turf Club (PRTC or KLKP) is the major Thoroughbred horse racing institute in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. The Club is a affiliated with the Malayan Racing Association. [1] The Perak Turf Club was established in 1884; it was the first exclusive turf club ever built in Perak. The establishment of the

Perak Turf Club at Taiping was the idea of Sir Frank Swettenham, who was passionate about horse racing. The new race course was located at Waterfall Road, later changed to Race Course Road, near the Lake Gardens. It held ordinary racing in the Federated Malay States—the major tournaments held at Penang, Selangor or Singapore. In 1906, it had a membership of about 250. The present course is at Waterfall Road, Taiping, which is 7 furlongs in length. There was an old course, situated about three miles away from Taiping, at which the current races were then run. In 1886, Burma ponies provided most of the racing and the meetings were primarily social functions. The turf club was the only club that attracted people of all classes, especially the Chinese, to mingle around, because of the sweepstakes and lotteries, as they preferred to gamble as their favourite pastime. Sir E.W. Birch, a racing enthusiast...

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