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Former two-time MRA champ Martin Sng dies
The Straits Times
|January 11, 2023
Skillful, friendly, funny, unselfish and generous.
These are some of the attributes of former two-time Malayan Racing Association champion jockey Martin Sng Guan Seng, who died on Tuesday at the National University Hospital. He was 73.
The divorcee leaves behind two sons and a daughter.
"For the last three years, he was bedridden after suffering a stroke, and then had dementia. His health deteriorated lately and he was warded on Jan 1 and passed away this morning," said his second brother, Peter, a 78-year-old retiree.
Sng's wake is at Church of St Stephen at Sallim Road. His funeral is on Thursday.
His peers from the Bukit Timah era were saddened by the loss of a friend and local hero.
This story is from the January 11, 2023 edition of The Straits Times.
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