Happy Valley Race Course, Hong Kong
23 07 2008Happy Valley race course in Hong Kong is a bizarre stadium under any measure. Surrounded on all sides by towering apartment blocks and buildings, seeing is believing. It was first built in 1845 to provide horse racing for the British people in Hong Kong. Before it was built, the area was a swampland, but also the only flat ground suitable for horse racing on Hong Kong Island. To make way for the racecourse, Hong Kong Government prohibited rice growing by villages in the surrounding area.
This image shows the race course when first built.
Today, the place couldn’t look more different.
Night races are every Wednesday in the season.
I took a couple of images when I was there and was most happiest with this one.
