Famous UK Horse Racing Tracks Articles | Horse Betting

By: Richard Bleuze

Aintree

The UK's most famous racecourse, and home to the John Smith's Grand National.  The first official races at Aintree were organized by the owner of Liverpool's Waterloo Hotel, Mr William Lynn.  Lynn leased the land from Lord Sefton, laid out a course, built a grandstand and staged the first Flat fixture on July 7, 1829.

Ascot

Royal Ascot is the world's most famous race meeting and is renowned as an international occasion of tradition and style.  This unrivalled event is undoubtedly the highlight of UK horse racing combining top class thoroughbreds and high fashion to create an atmosphere like no other.

Cheltenham

The Cheltenham Festival is the target for every owner, trainer and rider from from the start tof the UK horse racing season.  The Open is established as the early season highlight, racegoers at Cheltenham have another chance to see the best of Britain, Ireland and Europe contest the major prizes.

Doncaster

Doncaster Racecourse is where tradition and excellence meet.   The Rothmans Royals St. Leger, the world's oldest  and fifth and final Classic of the British Flat-racing season takes pride of place every September on the famous town Moor course.  Renowned for producing racing of the highest order, Doncaster is undoubtedly one of the finest horse racing tracks in the UK, if not Europe, with facilities to match.

Folkestone

Folkestone is the only UK horse racing track in Kent, and hosts both Flat and National Hunt racing, with meetings taking place in every month of the year.  This course is situated in the shadow of the South Downs at Westenhanger, about five miles from the town of Folkestone

Great Leights

Great Leighs is the UK’s first brand new horse racing track in 80 years.  Opening is planned for 4 April 2008 – and a healthy quota of all-weather fixtures are scheduled for 2008 mainly on Thursdays and Saturdays.  The UK horse racing track features floodlights, a state-of-the-art Polytrack circuit and facilities designed around the customer, and they will race all year round, day and night.

Haydock Park

Haydock Park Race Track is a result of over 250 years of UK horse racing tradition that is steeped in history together with modern facilities and a drive to provide the very best racing and facilities in the 21st century.  The highlight of Haydock Park's season is the Group 1 Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup and the De Vere Gold Cup, both offering a racing spectacle which rivals any other horse race in the UK.

Hexham

Hexham's racing season takes place in Spring and early Summer and in the Autumn.  One of the highlights of the Spring is the Heart of All England Maiden Hunter Chase which many consider a 'Cup Final' for rising chasing starts in the north of England.

Kempton Park

Since its inception in 1878 Kempton Park, set in Sunbury-on-Thames, the UK horse racing track has been the home to many of the UK's horse racing’s most dramatic moments.  Kempton Park stages both the National Hunt racing and flat racing, and the fixture list comprises a total of twenty-six race meetings during the year.

Leicestershire

 With Twenty Nine race meetings a year, and the Leicestershire Stakes (Group 3) as the center piece of the UK horse racing calendar Leicester is proud to be in the top flight of Britain's smaller courses, racing all the year round.

Ludlow

Ludlow has the reputation of being of the oldest UK horse racing track - there is certainly a record of racing in 1729. The course retains not only its Edwardian character but also its Club atmosphere. Though now a National Hunt course, it did not have jumping until the mid-nineteenth century .  Today Owners and Trainers from all over the UK come to horse racing track to race their horses over the same ground.

Newbury

Newbury  horse racing track is one of the finest sporting venues in the UK.  It features 28  racedays, both Flat and National Hunt, and over £2,000,000 in prize money on offer.  Features include the prestigious Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup over the jumps, and on the Flat, the Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes is one of the many features over the summer.

Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot is the leading summer UK horse racing track.  It is therefore, a showcase for the UK horse racing industry and aims to provide quality competitive National Hunt racing.

Royal Windsor

Royal Windsor horse racing track is situated on the banks of the river Thames in the heart of the Berkshire countryside.  It is the only figure-of-eight UK horse racing track Flat course in the country, and the sharp bends mean that the focus is on speed rather than stamina.  Although, though the effect is slightly offset by the long home straight which is almost five furlongs.

Sandown Park

Since being founded in 1870, Sandown Park has consistently been one of the UK's most popular racecourses.

Wetherby

Wetherby horse racing track is unique in Yorkshire because it only stages Jump Racing.  With arguably the finest Jumping Course in the North, the quality of Wetherby's racing is renowned throughout the horse racing industry in the UK.   Many of the greatest steeple chasers and hurdlers of all time have graced the turf at Wetherby

Worcester

Racing has taken place at the Pitchcroft horse track since at least 1718, making Worcester one of the oldest racecourses in Britain.  By the middle of the nineteenth century, several important races had become well established at the horse racing track, including the Worcester Stakes and the Gold Cup.

Well, I know that the above are not the only UK horse racing tracks, but in my opinion, they are  the most famous UK horse racing tracks.  If you have others, please email them to me!