Racing: Courses

The UK's first racecourse, alphabetically		Aintree
The Frying Pan: nickname of the racecourse (closed 1970) in (London)		Alexandra Park
Scottish Grand National		Ayr
Founded by Queen Anne in 1711 – near Swinley Bottom, where her hunting hounds were kennelled		Ascot
Hosts 13 of Great Britain's 36 annual Flat Group 1 horse races, and three Grade 1 Jumps races
Frankie Dettori won all seven winners, on 28 September 1996, at
The only racecourse in North Wales (near Wrexham)		Bangor–on–Dee
Forms part of the Holker Estate in Cumbria		Cartmel
The UK's first new racecourse since Taunton (1927): opened in April 2008, went into administration in January 2009, reopened in January 2015; originally known as Great Leighs		Chelmsford City
Located at Prestbury Park, in the "suburban village" of Prestbury; hosts the Champion Hurdle and the World Hurdle at its flagship meeting in March each year		Cheltenham
The Welsh Grand National is run at		Chepstow
Kentucky Derby	Course	Churchill Downs
	City	Louisville
Racecourse in Co. Kildare: home of the Irish Sweeps Derby (and all the Irish 'classics')		The Curragh
St. Leger, Racing Post Trophy; Lincoln Handicap since 1965, and the November Handicap since 1964 (the first and last races, respectively, of the English flat season)		Doncaster
The two racecourses in Northern Ireland		Downpatrick
		Down Royal
The Derby and the Oaks are run at		Epsom
Tattenham Corner is a feature of
Irish Grand National		Fairyhouse
Wales's third racecourse (after Chepstow and Bangor–on–Dee): in Carmarthenshire, it opened in 2009 on the site of an open cast coal mine that operated from 1983–97; the name, taken from the farm that stood there before the mine, means Blue Ridge		Ffos Las
Melbourne Cup: name of the course		Flemington
Closed in 2012, having been the only racecourse in Kent		Folkestone
Scene of the 1975 racing accident that ended the career of jockey John Lawrence, later to become better known as journalist and commentator Lord Oaksey
Hong Kong's most famous racecourse (the other being Sha Tin)		Happy Valley
Near St. Helens, Merseyside: home to the Sprint Cup and the Lancashire Chase (known since 2005 as the Betfair Chase)		Haydock Park
Course near Sunbury–on–Thames, Surrey: home of the King George VI Stakes, run on Boxing Day since 1947; the Jockey Club announced in January 2017 that it would be sold to developers		Kempton Park
Racecourse in Surrey, opened in 1890 by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII): the first in the UK to have an artificial track (2001)		Lingfield Park
Course in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris: venue for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe		Longchamp
The only racecourse in Lincolnshire (since 1964, when Lincoln closed)		Market Rasen
England's largest racecourse, known as "the home of racing"		Newmarket
Venue of the 2,000 Guineas, 1,000 Guineas, Cesarewitch
Venue of the Derby during World War II
Two courses — the Rowley Mile and the July Course
England's most southerly racecourse		Newton Abbott
Britain's most northerly racecourse		Perth
Famous racecourse near Naas, the county town of Co. Kildare, which hosts a week–long festival in April (there is also a Naas racecourse)		Punchestown
The world's oldest, and England's shortest permanent racecourse (first meeting 1539, distance 7 furlongs) – name means "cross island"		Roodee (Chester)
Eclipse Stakes, Whitbread Gold Cup		Sandown Park
The Pond Fence and the three Railway Fences are features of
The only racecourse in County Durham: approximately equidistant from Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Durham, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough		Sedgefield
Course in Northamptonshire: hosted the Greyhound Derby from 2014, but went into administration in 2018 and is not expected to re–open		Towcester
First UK racecourse to install floodlights (1993)		Wolverhampton
Situated in the Knaresmire – a marshy, undeveloped area within the city		York

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