About: Beijing Jockey Club

An Entity of Type: sports team, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Beijing Jockey Club (BJC), located in the Tongzhou District of Beijing and covering an area of 1.6 square kilometres, was one of the largest international standard horse-racing clubs in Asia. In 2001, with the approval of the state government, the club embarked on thoroughbred racing as a major business. The club bred over 2,000 thoroughbred horses. However, the Tongzhou racecourse was shut down on 23 October 2005. In the following month, over 600 horses were destroyed. The reason for the closure and the cull appears to have been loss of revenue, following the decision of the Chinese government not to allow gambling on horseracing. The club had previously operated a Tote system in 2003, apparently supported by the local government, but this had to be suspended in the 2004–05 season, follow

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Beijing Jockey Club (BJC), located in the Tongzhou District of Beijing and covering an area of 1.6 square kilometres, was one of the largest international standard horse-racing clubs in Asia. In 2001, with the approval of the state government, the club embarked on thoroughbred racing as a major business. The club bred over 2,000 thoroughbred horses. However, the Tongzhou racecourse was shut down on 23 October 2005. In the following month, over 600 horses were destroyed. The reason for the closure and the cull appears to have been loss of revenue, following the decision of the Chinese government not to allow gambling on horseracing. The club had previously operated a Tote system in 2003, apparently supported by the local government, but this had to be suspended in the 2004–05 season, following the government decision. The club is shut down. The club had three racetracks which met international standards: * turf track A: 2298 m * turf track B: 2050 m * dirt track S: 1850 m. (en)
  • 北京通順競馬場（ペキンつうじゅんけいばじょう）は、中華人民共和国北京市通州区の東北部にあった競馬場。2005年度を最後に開催中止された。 (ja)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 2986264 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1980 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1087812855 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
georss:point
  • 40.013433 116.695082
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • 北京通順競馬場（ペキンつうじゅんけいばじょう）は、中華人民共和国北京市通州区の東北部にあった競馬場。2005年度を最後に開催中止された。 (ja)
  • Beijing Jockey Club (BJC), located in the Tongzhou District of Beijing and covering an area of 1.6 square kilometres, was one of the largest international standard horse-racing clubs in Asia. In 2001, with the approval of the state government, the club embarked on thoroughbred racing as a major business. The club bred over 2,000 thoroughbred horses. However, the Tongzhou racecourse was shut down on 23 October 2005. In the following month, over 600 horses were destroyed. The reason for the closure and the cull appears to have been loss of revenue, following the decision of the Chinese government not to allow gambling on horseracing. The club had previously operated a Tote system in 2003, apparently supported by the local government, but this had to be suspended in the 2004–05 season, follow (en)
rdfs:label
  • Beijing Jockey Club (en)
  • 北京通順競馬場 (ja)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(116.69508361816 40.013431549072)
geo:lat
  • 40.013432 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • 116.695084 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License