DANNY Murphy and Declan McDonogh were both saddened to hear that racing in Singapore will be shut down at the end of next year. The country’s government will take back the 120-hectare site at Kranji Racecourse, which will be used for public and private housing.

Murphy trained there for five years in the early 2000s and won the country’s biggest race, while McDonogh had a stint in Singapore in 2011.