Horse Racing in Ho Chi Minh City

Horse Racing in Ho Chi Minh City

Horse racing in Ho Chi Minh City is considered as one of the major temptations in Vietnam. You can enjoy horse racing in the various racing grounds and even in hotels which provide you with the pleasure of enjoying your leisure. Most hotels include horse racing courses to promote recreational activities.

Most of the hotels in Ho Chi Minh City provide you with the facilities to go for horse riding and similar recreational activities. One such hotel availing this facility to you is Caravelle Hotel. Horse racing being a very popular activity in the city and thus it negates the impression that racing horses have to under go gruesome and rigorous training all year round. And when the horses resent due to certain body ailments and external injuries then those aspects are hidden by injecting them with drugs both of the legal and illegal nature.

The only drawback regarding racing horses is that they can’t stop when they are tired and at times they have to go through performance enhancing programs and operations. In fact in Ho Chi Minh also just like any other place betting over racing horses is a very regular activity and most people highly enjoy this activity. You will also horse racing grounds in certain resorts which avail of this facility as a recreational source to their guests. One of the major horse racing grounds is Phu Tho Racecourse in Ho Chi Minh City which was set up in 1932 and is known to be the first horse racing track in Vietnam. In this ground racing was stopped in 1975 and restarted again in 1889. In this ground each betting ticket costs VN$ 10,000. Usually eight races take place from noon till the evening and it pulls approximately a crowd of 8000. This race course has been recently improved and now includes VIP rooms and tickets are sold through computers horse racings start from noon to 5 p.m. and admission costs VN$5 000 while VIP rooms charge VN$50,000 and VN$100,000 respectively. Thus in Ho Chi Minh City you can find out this one venue to enjoy your love for horseracing. To relax more at weekends at Phu Tho Racecourse visit:
2 Le Dai Hanh, District 10,
Ho Chi Minh City
Phone: +84 8 855 1205

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