{"id":431,"date":"2020-05-25T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2020-05-25T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:54:43","slug":"champ-de-mars-racecourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/2020\/05\/25\/champ-de-mars-racecourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Champ De Mars Racecourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_432\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432\" class=\"wp-image-432 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Mauritius-VIP-Champ-Mars-Course-01.jpg\" alt=\"Champ De Mars Racecourse\" width=\"700\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Mauritius-VIP-Champ-Mars-Course-01.jpg 700w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/05\/Mauritius-VIP-Champ-Mars-Course-01-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champ De Mars Racecourse<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Champ De Mars Racecourse (Champ de Mars Road, Port Louis) \u2013 this thoroughbred horse race track was opened in 1812 by the Mauritius Turf Club (MTC) (which was founded that same year by the first British Governor of Mauritius, Sir Robert Farquhar). This is the oldest horse-racing club in the Southern Hemisphere and the second oldest in the world. Before its opening as a horse race track, it was a military training ground for French troops. Nowadays, horse races are still held here (during the racing season from late March to early December). See the following website for details on upcoming races and other events: www.mauritiusturfclub.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champ De Mars Racecourse (Champ de Mars Road, Port Louis) \u2013 this thoroughbred horse race track was opened in 1812 by the Mauritius Turf Club (MTC) (which was founded that same year by the first British Governor of Mauritius, Sir Robert Farquhar). This is the oldest horse-racing club in the Southern Hemisphere and the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}