ROYAL WESTERN INDIA TURF CLUB LTD

Year of Establishment: November 25, 1797
Address: 
MUMBAI: Race Course, Mahalakshmi, Mumbai – 400034
Telephone: +91 22 23071401 / 23071407 

PUNE: Race Course, 6 Arjun Marg, Pune 411001 Turf Club House, 1 Sholapur Road, Pune 411001 Telephone: +91 20 26362666, 26361360

Fax: 
Mumbai : +91 22 23071437
Pune : +91 20 2634 6990

Email: secretariat@rwitc.com

Website: www.rwitc.com

Location: Worli,Mumbai &
                  Race Course Road, Pune

Contact: The Secretary

Guest accommodation: Turf Club House, Pune which is only for members

Dining: Hooves, Gallops, Tote & Olive offering multi-cuisine in Mumbai
Turf Club House in Pune

Sports Facilities: Horse Racing, riding school, polo, billiards, cards, snooker
The Amateur Riders Club is located at the Mahalakshmi race course

Amenities & Members privileges :

• Entry into the Members enclosure is exclusively for members and their guests
• Preference of allocation of private boxes
• Concession in rates of hiring of the lawns (one year after becoming a member)
• Use of the helipad
• Exclusive use of the facilities of the Turf Club House in Pune and Hooves in Mumbai
• Invitations to major racing events and select exclusive functions at the centre
• Reciprocal membership to other selective Clubs
• Entry to the Members’ enclosure at all racing centres in India
• An equine swimming pool was constructed in 1979, circular in shape with a central island. The club has an equine hospital in Mumbai and Pune with facilities for research and blood-typing.
• There is also an Apprentice Jockey School.

Number of horses at the centre: Around 1300 horses
Number of trainers at the centre: “A” Licensed -45
Number of jockeys at the centre: “A” Licensed – 75. “B” Licensed – 5
Number of Club Members: 1745
Number of Stand Members: 3036
Number of Life Members: 2864
Number of Service Members: 55
Betting Tax: 28% on the amount paid at the totalizators.

Racing Seasons
Mumbai Winter Meeting – November to April
Pune Monsoon Meeting -Mid-July to October

Race Track: Mumbai: The circumference of the track is about 2350 metres, 90 feet in width, with a 400 metre chute to enable races up to 1600 metres to be run navigating only one turn.
Pune: The circumference is about 2400 metres, width about 50 ft. The course has a monsoon track.

THE DELHI RACE CLUB (1940) LTD

The Delhi Race Club(1940) Ltd that has been in existence since 1940 conducts its racing under the rules of the Royal Western India Turf Club Ltd. the Delhi Race Club started functioning under the Rules of Racing of the Royal Western India Turf Club Ltd. 

The Club was established on March 8th 1926 in its present location, in the heart of the capital city New Delhi. The Club was registered in 1940 and on 29th April, 1959,

Gymkhana racing carried on till 1969. The Club is governed by a committee of 13 elected members and a President.

 In addition there are three government appointed nominees on the Board of Directors.

President of the Club: Mr. P. S. Bedi (Padmashri Awardee) since 1992
Number of horses at the centre: 453
Number of trainers at the centre: 28
Number of jockeys at the centre: 40
Apprentice Jockeys: 12
Number of Ordinary Members: 754
Number of Honorary Members: 33
Betting Tax: 28%

Racing Seasons
Winter Meeting – November to April
Monsoon Meeting – August to October

MADRAS RACE CLUB

Year of Establishment: 1896

Address: Post Box No: 2639, Guindy Madras 600 032

Telephone-Madras: + 91 44 22351171 / 72 / 73 / 75; 22350774;
Telephone-Ootacamund: 0423 2443943

Fax-Madras: + 91 44 22351553
Fax- Ootacamund: 0423 2441251

Email: secretary@madrasraceclub.in / madrasraceclub07@dataone.in

Website: www.madrasraceclub.in

Location: Madras and Ootacamund

Contact: The Secretary

Guest Accommodation: The Guindy Lodge that was the official residence of the Secretary of the Club is today known as the Guindy Lodge Club House Annexe and offers residential accommodation as well as other sporting facilities,which it has been doing since 1969.

Sports facilities: Squash courts; badminton courts; lawn tennis; billiards; snooker.

Amenities: Gymnasium; health club; swimming pool; bar; tambola; film screening; card room.
There is an equine swimming pool which is 100m long. There are two bund schools, two walkers and two covered lunging rings.

Number of horses at the centre: 593
Number of Club Members: 1000
Number of Stand Members: 4000
Number of trainers at the centre: 16
Number of jockeys at the centre: 40
Betting Tax: 28%

Race Track: The race track is a flat track with no gradients and is about 2355m in length with three bends and the width of the track varies from 100ft -115ft. There is no monsoon track. There are three sand tracks used for working the horses. The outer sand track is 15 ft wide, the inner sand track is 30 ft wide and the reverse sand track is 12ft wide.

Racing Seasons
Madras Winter Meeting – November to March
Monsoon Races – August to October
Ootacamund Summer Meeting – April to June

OOTACAMUND

The picturesque hill station of Ootacamund, commonly referred to as Ooty and today known as Udhagamandalam is located 564 km from Madras about 2286 metres above sea level. On May 18, 1894 there was a formal race meeting held under the Turf Club Rules. The reclamation of a portion of the lake above the Willow Bund which took place in 1896-1899, enabled the formation of a proper course around the Park. The length of the course is one mile and the width varies from 30-60ft. 

The race stand cum pavilion was completed in 1898 and was opened at the meeting on May 6th the following year. Racing is conducted at this picturesque hill station when the intense heat is unfavourable for racing elsewhere. In the distant past horses from other centres, particularly dry-coated horses, from Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Calcutta and Madras used to summer their horses in Ootacamund during their racing season but for more than two decades no outstation horses other than those from Madras used to visit the centre. It’s only since 2016 that horses from all other centres have started summering their horses in Ooty as conditions have now become administratively more favourable.

ROYAL CALCUTTA TURF CLUB LTD

Name:Royal Calcutta Turf Club

Year of Establishment: February 1847 as the Calcutta Turf Club

Address: Calcutta Race Course, Hastings, Calcutta 700 022

Telephone: +91 33 2248 7170 / 2248 6352 / 2248 9502 / 22486232

Fax: +91 33 2231 6953

Email: secy@rctconline.com

Website: www.rctconline.com

Contact: The Secretary & Chief Financial Officer

Location: 30km from the airport; 8km from Howrah station. It is located in the central part of Calcutta, in an area popularly known as the Maidan.

Sport Facilities: Billiards & snooker

Amenities: A lounge bar on the first floor of the Reserve Stand which is used by Club Members and their guests. The Baqlava Bar is for Members.
The racecourse has independent caterers providing food and beverages to the racing public.
Number of horses at the centre: 550
Number of trainers at the centre: 21
Number of jockeys at the centre: 28 Jockeys / 16 Apprentices
Number of Club Members: 138
Number of Stand Members: 458
Number of Associate Members: 58
Betting Tax: 28%

Race Track: There are two tracks. In 1870 Calcutta conducted its first race on the monsoon track that was built on a special course on the inside of the flat track. It is on an elevated level with drainage on either side. It is sand based and the heavier it rains the better it gets.The winter track is tan based.It is a flat race track, slightly oval in shape and is about 2600m in length.

Racing Seasons
Winter Meeting – November to April
Monsoon Meeting – July to October

Governance: The Committee of the Club is elected by the Club Members at the Annual
General Meeting of the Club and seven Stewards are then elected to manage its racing activities.

BANGALORE TURF CLUB

Year of Establishment: May 1920

Address: Post Box No 5038,
52, Race Course Road
Bangalore 560001

Telephone: 91 80 2226 2391 / 2 / 3/ 5 / 91 80 2226 1379

Fax: 91 80 2220 6372

Email: secbtc@yahoo.com

Website: www.bangaloreraces.com

Location: Race Course Road, Bangalore; City Centre; approx. 30 kms from the International Airport

Contact: The Secretary

Amenities: Club House facilities-Card tables

Number of horses at the centre: 968
Number of trainers at the centre: 35
Number of jockeys at the centre: 110
Number of Members: 350 Club Members
Stand Members: 200 Stand Members
Betting Tax: 28%

Race Track: The race track is a challenging one. It is an oval shaped, right-hand course measuring approximately 1950 metres with four sharp curves and pronounced gradients. The downhill backstretch drops 13.10metres (43 feet) from 1800 metres to 800 metres and climbs 11.58metres (38 feet) from that point to the winning post, with a further rise of 1.5metres (five feet) from the winning post to the 1800 metre marker. This demanding and testing race track, with its gradients, bends and a distinct short straight, places a premium both on the speed and endurance of horses and the skill and experience of jockeys. A win on this track is therefore a significant achievement.

General information:

• The Colts’ Trial Stakes and the Fillies’ Trial Stakes run during the Bangalore summer season were initially not meant to be Classics, in the true sense of the term. As their names implied, they were meant to give three-year-olds in Bangalore their first major outing over a mile (1600 metres). They were introduced in the summer season program of 1959.
• The Kunigal Derby was first run in 1962 as a mile race for three-year-olds. The next year the name was changed to the Bangalore Derby and in the following year, the distance was changed to 2000 metres, the present distance at which it is run.
• Close Circuit Television coverage of the races was introduced in 1973 in black and white coverage. Colour coverage and replays of the races were introduced a year later.
• The Bangalore Turf Club formed an Appeal Board to help aggrieved professionals in 1988.
• An analytical laboratory was set up in January 1990, to conduct pre-race drug testing.
• It is probably one of the few race courses in the world where a limited space of 85acres of land has been so comprehensively utilized to provide stabling for close to 1000 horses, three training tracts, an equine swimming pool, training schools, walking rings, a veterinary hospital and even an amateur riding school.

Racing Seasons: Summer Season: Mid-May to July
Winter Season: Mid-November to March

Governance:
The Committee consists of 14 members of which three Stewards and one Committee Member is a Government nominee. Elections are held at the Annual General Meeting of its Club Members

MYSORE RACE CLUB LTD

Year of Establishment: 1891

Address: P. B. No. 11, Racecourse Road, Mysore 570 010

Telephone: 0821 2521675 / 2565565

Fax: 0821 2520248

Email: mysrace@dataone.in; secmyrace@dataone.in; mysoreraces@gmail.com

Website: www.mysoreraces.com

Location: Racecourse Road, Mysore

Contact: The Secretary

Sport Facilities: An 18 hole golf course of international standard

Amenities: A Club House. In 1982, a club house was constructed offering its patrons recreational facilities and residential accommodation in the club house premises. A ‘Golf Hut’ was built allowing members of the Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Golf Club and its own members to play golf there.

Number of horses at the centre: 554
Number of trainers at the centre: 18
Number of jockeys at the centre: 68
Number of Club Members: 250
Betting Tax: 28%
Race Track: Oval shaped race track about 2000 metres in length, 35 metres wide at the back stretch and about 18 metres wide near the winning post

Racing Seasons: Summer Meeting: May – July
Monsoon Meeting: August – October
Winter Meeting: November – February

Governance: The Mysore Race Club was governed by the rules of the Bangalore Turf Club though it had its own Chairman, Committee and Stewards of the Club. In 2014 it was awarded status as an independent Turf Authority and now functions independent of the Bangalore Turf Club.

HYDERABAD RACE CLUB

Year of Establishment: Incorporated &registered on 15th April 1971

Address: Malakpet , Hyderabad – 500 036

Telephone: +91 040 2454 9491/ 2454 9492

Fax: +91 040 2454 8493 (Secretariat)
+91 040 2454 0170 (Racing)

Email: secyhrc@yahoo.co.in ; hrcrace@sancharnet.in ; hydrace@yahoo.com

Website: www.hydraces.com

Location: Malakpet is located 35 kms from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad; 6 kms from Nampally railway station, Hyderabad

Contact: The Secretary

Accommodation: Nil

Dining: Air-conditioned paddock complex for guests and invitees; exclusive cafeteria for members and guests; owners & trainers cafeteria.

Sport Facilities: Various equestrian activities

Amenities: Members Stand accommodates 1000-1500 people; Grand Stand accommodates 10000-15000 people; air-conditioned owners and trainers stands that accommodate 300 people; giant LED screens opposite the stand for the viewing public; single and two tier stabling facility for horses; computerized betting system with transmission of data through telephone circuits and wireless connectivity; Racing Library & Museum; Apprentice Jockeys Training School; well equipped Equine Hospital; Horse-shoe shaped swimming pool 100 metres in circumference; seven off-course tote centres in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and one each in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, and Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh.

Number of horses in the centre: Approximately 750
Number of trainers: 21 ‘A’ licensed trainers
Number of jockeys: 34 ‘A’ licensed jockeys
Number of Members: Club Members (Maximum) 500; Stand Members (Maximum) 500
Betting Tax: 28%

Race Track: Races on two different surfaces.
The Monsoon Turf Track- Right hand sand based track, length 2350 metres; width 75 feet
Winter Turf Track – Right hand tan bark based track, length 2250 metres; width 70 feet
Race course area – 117 acres with ample green cover

General information:

• An Apprentice Jockeys Training School was commissioned in 1983 with the aim to harness the raw skills of youngsters between the ages of 13 to 16 and turn them into full-fledged jockeys.
• The process of modernization commenced with the electromagnetic system., whereby sale of tickets had risen to 6 per minute against 2 per minute in the old system. The electronic tote system improved it further by taking sales up to 12 per minute and this system was successfully put into operation in February 1988.
• The first Off-Course Tote Centre was commissioned in 1991 and by 1994 the fourth was commissioned almost 260 kms away from Hyderabad.
• A Grand Stand was built by 1993. It was a one-stop integrated affair, with a seating capacity of 10,000 across two tiers.
• The Hyderabad Race Club is perhaps the most profitable racing club in India and their regulatory systems have held them in good stead.
• A new Members Lounge overlooking the paddock on one side and the track on the other offers a panoramic view of racing. With comfortable seating and dining facilities. Members can enjoy their racing with greater comfort.

Racing Seasons: Monsoon Season: July – October
Winter Season: November – February

Governance: Election of the committee of the Hyderabad Race Club takes place at the Annual General Meeting of the Club.It consists of 12 Stewards of whom eight are elected from among the Club Members,three are nominated by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and one is the Commander, Andhra Sub-Area(Ex-officio). Any Club Member can contest this election. The term of the elected Stewards is two years. Every year 4 Stewards are elected. The Chairman is elected at a Board Meeting which is held immediately after the Annual General Meeting.
The Stewards of the Club elect at the beginning of each Racing Season, as defined in the Rules of Racing, six members who form the Board of Appeal.These members must have a standing as a Club Member for a minimum period of 15 years or acted as a Steward of the Club in the past for a minimum period of 6 years or any person who has officiated as a Senior Racing Official for a minimum period of 10 years with a recognized Turf Authority. The Members of the Board of Appeal elect from amongst themselves a Chairman of the Board for every appeal.

Chairman of the Club: Dr. R. Surendra Reddy since 1983