Royal Turf Club

Reschedules race season

The launch of the forthcoming race season in Nuwara Eliya has been postponed to August 20 due to bad weather. “Due to the continuous rain the training track has been closed for six days over the past two weeks severely interfering with the preparation of the horses for the race meeting on 6th August, 2016”, said CEO of the Royal Turf Club (RTC), Wayne Wood.

“The Thoroughbred Auction that was also scheduled to be held will also now take place subsequent to the race meeting on 20th August, 2016. “Seven races are programmed for the meeting on the 20th August , for which just under Rs 2,000,000 in prize money will be distributed. The feature race will be The RTC Breeze up Auction Class 1 Handicap over 1400M. Entries will close at 10am on Monday 15th August 2016,” said Wood.