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The Batu Gajah Racecourse (and Later Golf Club)
In 1890, the European elite of Batu Gajah, many of them horse owners and racing enthusiasts, formed the Kinta Gymkhana Club. F D Osborne was the first honorary secretary.
The club organised the first Kinta races at Batu Gajah race course on 17 and 19 February 1893, running seven races each day.
In 1903 (quite late compared to Gopeng and Batu Gajah) the first meeting took place in Ipoh to discuss forming the Ipoh Gymkhana Club. The following year the first race meeting took place and soon Ipoh became a more popular venue for race meetings than Batu Gajah and after World War I, the latter course was turned into a golf course.
The successor to the Ipoh Gymkhana Club, the Perak Turf Club, was formed in 1926.
To read more about the Ipoh Gymkhana Club, click here.
To read more about the book ‘Kinta Valley ’, click here.