The Mysore Summer Races-2019 with 12 days of racing will commence from tomorrow (May 22) and conclude on Aug.7. STAKES AND CUPS: Rs.3,22,50,000 in stakes and Rs.4,20,000 in cups, aggregating to Rs.3,26,70,000. RACING: About 400 horses are expected to participate during this season. The following Trainers have been licensed by Mysore Race Club (MRC) Limited…
Winter Races re-scheduled
December 31, 2018The seventh day of the ongoing Mysore Winter Races 2018-19 programmed for Jan.2, 2019 has been re-scheduled and will be conducted on Jan.4, according to a release from Mysore Race Club (MRC) Ltd.
‘Subah Ka Tara’ wins Star of Mysore Trophy
September 14, 2018Star of Mysore Managing Editor Vikram Muthanna is seen presenting The Star of Mysore Trophy to Gautam Aggarwal, one of the owners of ‘Subah Ka Tara,’ which won the event in the 7th day of Mysore Races held at MRC on Sept.12. The winning horse, jointly owned by Rajan Aggarwal, Gautam Aggarwal, Gautam Sengupta and…
A Trojan Horse called Botanical Garden
July 15, 2018Mysore Race Course (MRC) is a very important and unique heritage institution of Mysuru city. How many cities in our country can boast of a Race Course? It would be highly myopic to perceive horse-racing purely from the point of view of betting or as a wager or a social evil. Wherever racing is practiced,…
MRC Stables: Minister extends deadline by three months
July 1, 2018Mysuru: Following the deadline given to Mysore Race Course (MRC) authorities to clear all illegal structures coming to an end yesterday, Tourism and Sericulture Minister S.R. Mahesh, inspected the MRC premises this morning to know if his directives were met. During his inspection, the Minister found many illegal structures such as temporary shelters built for…
Stable row: Minister to inspect MRC tomorrow
June 30, 2018Mysuru: Tourism and Sericulture Minister S.R. Mahesh will visit the Mysore Race Course, run and managed by the Mysore Race Club (MRC) tomorrow at 8 am to inspect the areas where horse stables and sheds existed earlier. Based on the Minister’s order, the MRC authorities cleared the sheds that were spoiling the beauty of the…
Please do this first… then think of MRC
June 23, 2018The Mysore Race Course is not only the biggest piece of real estate in the heart of our city but also one of the largest green spaces. Now the new Tourism Minister wants to shift the Race Course and make it a Botanical Garden to boost tourism in Mysuru. A proactive move, but… What about…
Race Course in a Race against Time
June 22, 2018By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Perched, rather precariously now, at the two ends of one of the most majestic roads of our city are two of its most iconic and notable landmarks — the Mysore Race Course and the Lalitha Mahal Palace, both being the gifts of our erstwhile Maharajas which strengthen the royal…
60,000 perform Yoga at Mysore Race Course
June 21, 2018Mysuru: “Had the District Administration aimed for the Guinness World Records for the ‘Largest Yoga Performance’ at a Single Venue, we would have beaten our own record of last year as this year, we had more than 60,000 yoga performers at the sprawling Mysore Race Course (MRC) when compared to the last year’s number of…
Mysore Race Course likely to be shifted
June 13, 2018Mysuru: The Mysore Race Course (MRC) will be closed and shifted to a spacious land that will be beyond 25 kilometres from the city limits, said the newly-appointed Minister for Tourism and Sericulture S.R. Mahesh. He was addressing a press conference at the Central Sericulture Research and Training Institute on Manandawadi Road in city this…
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