Toa Payoh Vets Clinical Research
Horse Cases seen by Dr Sing Kong Yuen

Riders Lodge in Johor has riding lessons and camps. 

Bukit Timah Saddle Club, Singapore has riding lessons for families

The Singapore Totalisator Board (STB) was formed in 1988 and appointed an agent, the Bukit Turf Club (BTC) to take  over the racing and 4-D operations with effect from 1988. The BTC replaced the STC and formed an interesting task force to reverse the decline in the racing industry. Visits were made to racing clubs in Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Thailand. One of the members was me. I had written an article on the business of racing in Singapore in the late 1980s is compared with other racing clubs for an editor of a start up racing magazine.
 
A start-up racing magazine editor asked me to contribute an article for his inaugural issue. Rather than writing about common veterinary conditions of racehorses, I attempted to write a useful article for the benefit of the racehorses, the trainers and the jockeys. Since I had spent so much time with the task force, I had lots of information about the state of the Singapore racing industry and what was troubling it. A post-mortem of the racing industry and what to do was essentially what I would write.

The article was obtained by analysing the racing performance reported in various annual racecourse publications from the clubs in the U.S, South Africa, Hong Kong and Australia. These reports were requested by me in writing and the clubs post them to me in my personal capacity as a racehorse veterinarian doing research on veterinary viruses affecting racing and experienced by other clubs. 

Pages of the article have been scanned so as to share the historical data and information with racecourse operators in other parts of the world and to encourage the younger vets to add value to their employers and do the right thing, making a positive contribution and difference to their working environment. See also: Adding value to the employer's services - vowing the clients with memorable services

It was an article which I wanted to submit to the STB but did not know how. It was full of facts and information and it took several weeks to write as there was so much material from various horse-racing clubs to analyse and condense into a useful article. Remember I was just an ordinary racehorse veterinarian not a manager who produces management reports and so I hesitated in submitting this article to Mr Quek Chee Hoong. It was a "boring article" if submitted as it consisted of pages of words and tables, unlike the printed product with layout and photographs as published in the racing magazine (12 pages scanned as stated below).

I hope readers enjoy reading it and these pages are as follows: