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Message: <blockquote data-quote="luxmen" data-source="post: 16370574" data-attributes="member: 409399">Upali     asamanya     lesa      money      earn     kaley     samaharu    thula       sakayak      thiyenavane.     Ohu     asamanya    lesa        earn     kaley      menna    mea      subject    eken.   Ohuta      generation     eken     ena      talent     ekak    thibuna     a    sadaha.-     Horse Racing The name Upali Wijewardene was synonymous with "The Sport of all  Kings", Horse Racing. He was the Chairman Board of Stewards of the Sri  Lanka Turf Club and was a keen turfite, who raced in Sri Lanka and  England, where he won the "Royal Ascot" with "Rasa Penang" ridden by the  world famous jockey <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Piggott" target="_blank">Lester Piggott</a>. In 1980 he also won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Derby" target="_blank">Singapore Derby</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Timah_Race_Course" target="_blank">Bukit Timah Race Course</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" target="_blank">Singapore</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perak_Derby&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Perak Derby</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perak_Turf_Club" target="_blank">Perak Turf Club</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" target="_blank">Malaysia</a>  with his horse, named "Vaaron". He raced "General Atty" too and won  many races in England. He flew to all these countries where his horses  were racing, in his private aircraft. He made it a point to fly from  Newmarket to Nuwara Eliya to watch his horses and ponies racing there  too. He would land in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katunayake_Airport" target="_blank">Katunayake Airport</a> and make a quick tarmac change to his private helicopter to fly to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwara_Eliya" target="_blank">Nuwara Eliya</a>. Wijewardene was responsible for reviving pony racing and thereafter, horse racing during the time there was a lull in racing A British journalist, Matt Miller, described him in Insight Magazine:  ‘Largely through bravado and wit, Philip Upali Wijewardene parlayed a  bankrupt confectionery plant into Sri Lanka’s only multi national  business group and one of Asia’s leading cocoa based products  conglomerates. Intriguingly he accomplished his overseas empire-building  at a time when his country strictly prohibited the export of currency.  And now the 43-year-old commodity wizard (this was 1981) has started  what could be Upali's Third Plan... He would be willing, he says with  uncharacteristic restraint, to become Sri Lanka's president someday’.</blockquote>

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