The San Lazaro Leisure Park, officially known as the San Lazaro Leisure and Business Park is a mixed-used venue which features a

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in Carmona,

Cavite Cavite, officially the Province of Cavite ( tl, Lalawigan ng Kabite; Chavacano: ''Provincia de Cavite''), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon. Located on the southern shores of Manila Bay and southwest ...

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. It is the home of the

Manila Jockey Club The Manila Jockey Club, Inc. (MJC) is a horse racing institution in the Philippines. One of the oldest race clubs in the Asia-Pacific region, the club was established in 1867 in Manila and is based in Carmona, Cavite. It is also a member of the Asi ...

. The leisure park occupies a land and houses around 1,000

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as of 2015. Pagcor operates a Casino within the area. It also houses a small venue inside the turf building, for cockfighting. The venue hosts a casino and is planned to be the site of the

National Teams Training Centre The PFF National Training Center or the National Football Center is a football ground at the San Lazaro Leisure and Business Park in Carmona, Cavite. History Plans to construct a football facility in Carmona, Cavite were announced as early as J ...

to be used by both the national men's and

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football team. Within the grounds of the leisure park venues to accommodate

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, and

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are being built. A concert venue is also planned.

History

The Manila Jockey Club used to be housed at the San Lázaro Hippodrome in 1912 in

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. The racetrack was built on the former friar estate known during the Spanish colonial period as the ''Hacienda de Mayhaligue''. It later came to be the known as the ''Hacienda de San Lázaro'' being home to the ''Hospital de San Lázaro'' for lepers administered by the

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since 1785. The site itself was the location of the ''Real Monasterio de Santa Clara'', which the Manila Jockey Club purchased during the early days of the

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in 1900. Prior to the construction of the hippodrome at San Lázaro, the Club held its races at the Santa Mesa Hippodrome in

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. The Club then transferred its racetrack to its present site in

in 2003. The former site was converted into a mixed-used development under the name,

San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park is the marketing name given to the multiple use site under development by the Manila Jockey Club Investments Corp. in Manila, Philippines. It takes its name from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome, a horse racetrac ...

Recent developments

Among the newest projects inside the SLLP is the construction of the new grand cockpit of MJC's subdiary, Manila Cockers Club (MCC), the 2,000-seater MCC Coliseum.

References

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History

Recent developments

See also

References