Bukit Timah Saddle Club moves after 72 years
Once used by racing jockeys to train, the club grounds featured riding arenas, paddocks and an 800m heath track where riders of years past would have informal races.
Tucked deep inside a narrow winding road off Eng Neo Avenue, the club’s grounds will make way for the construction of the Cross Island Line which will begin in the coming months. He is pictured here hanging on to a stable barrier as fellow groom Ramlan prepares Shanley, a 13-year-old Irish sport horse, to be ridden.
Sand at one of the club’s arenas being dug out by an excavator to be reused at the club’s new home in Kranji.
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