A CHURCH service on Sunday morning at the Fellowship Tabernacle, 58 Half-Way Tree will signal the start of a week of activities to mark the 31st anniversary of the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC). It gets underway at 11:00.The week, from December 14-20, will also include the Anniversary Awards Dinner at the Jamaica Pegasus on the evening of Thursday, December 18 and a race meet at Caymanas Park on Saturday, December 20 featuring the JRC's 31st Anniversary Trophy race in addition to a Staff Walkstackle.
If that wasn't enough, other activities include a Media Brunch and Open Day next Tuesday at the Winchester Road offices of the Racing Commission, as well as an outside broadcast from the premises of the Commission on the same day.
There will also be live interviews with JRC chairman Rudolph Muir and director of racing on the talk show "At the Track" hosted by Cliff Williams on Radio 2 at 6:05 p.m. on Friday, December 19.
The Jamaica Racing Commission was established in 1972 to take over the regulatory functions administered by the Jockey Club of Jamaica. Its first chairman was the late Sir John Mordecai, followed by Dennis Lalor, Ren Gonsalves (twice), J.D. Hall (briefly), Gerry Grindley and current chairman Rudolph Muir.
