Happy Valley Racecourse 跑馬地馬場

There were plans to develop Wong Nai Chung Village as a commercial centre in the early 1840s. However, the government gave up the idea because of poor sanitary conditions there. The area turned out as a burial place for the British and was called Happy Valley. In 1846, a racecourse was built.1840年代初,英國人原擬把黃泥涌村一帶闢作商業中心;然而,不少入住該地之英國人因罹熱症而不治,港府只好打消這個念頭。死去的英國人多於該地安葬,當時的人把那地稱為Happy Valley,因此才有日後「快活谷」及「愉園」等名稱的出現。1846年港府改在此地興建馬場。
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