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Veliefendi Race Course ((トルコ語:Veliefendi Hipodromu)) is a horse racing track located at Veliefendi neighborhood in Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is the country's oldest and biggest race course founded on a former grassland that was historically a farm belonging to Şeyhülislam Veliyüddin Efendi, an 18th-century superior authority of Islam in the Ottoman Empire. The race course was constructed in the years 1912/13 by German specialists upon the initiative of Enver Pasha.〔Klaus Kreiser: ''Kleines Türkei-Lexikon''. München 1992, s.v. Veliefendi hipodromu (in German)〕 The race course hosts also music events. In 2006, Turkish pop singer Nez held a concert. ==Physical attributes== The race course covers an area of consisting of facilities for racing, training and barns. The race course has three interleaved tracks as: *a long and wide turf oval, *a long and wide synthetic track for all-weather racing and *a long and wide sand oval for training.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TJK )〕 The track's seating capacity is 7,600. The complex comprises offices, a museum, an exhibition hall, a racehorse hospital, an apprentice training center as well as social and recreational facilities.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Veliefendi Race Course」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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