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| The Frying Pan: nickname of the racecourse (closed 1970) in (London) |
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Alexandra Park | |
| Scottish Grand National |
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Ayr | |
| Founded by Queen Anne in 1711 – near Swinley Bottom, where her hunting hounds were kennelled |
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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
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| The only racecourse in North Wales (near Wrexham) |
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Bangor–on–Dee | |
| Forms part of the Holker Estate in Cumbria |
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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 |
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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 |
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Cheltenham | |
| The Welsh Grand National is run at |
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Chepstow | |
| Kentucky Derby | Course |
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Churchill Downs |
| City |
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Louisville | |
| Racecourse in Co. Kildare: home of the Irish Sweeps Derby (and all the Irish 'classics') |
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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) |
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Doncaster | |
| The two racecourses in Northern Ireland |
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Downpatrick | |
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Down Royal | ||
| The Derby and the Oaks are run at |
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Epsom | |
| Tattenham Corner is a feature of | |||
| Irish Grand National |
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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 |
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Ffos Las | |
| Melbourne Cup: name of the course |
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Flemington | |
| Closed in 2012, having been the only racecourse in Kent |
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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) |
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Happy Valley | |
| Near St. Helens, Merseyside: home to the Sprint Cup and the Lancashire Chase (known since 2005 as the Betfair Chase) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Lingfield Park | |
| Course in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris: venue for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe |
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Longchamp | |
| The only racecourse in Lincolnshire (since 1964, when Lincoln closed) |
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Market Rasen | |
| England's largest racecourse, known as "the home of racing" |
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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 |
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Newton Abbott | |
| Britain's most northerly racecourse |
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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) |
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Punchestown | |
| The world's oldest, and England's shortest permanent racecourse (first meeting 1539, distance 7 furlongs)
– name means "cross island" |
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Roodee (Chester) | |
| Eclipse Stakes, Whitbread Gold Cup |
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Sandown Park | |
| The only racecourse in County Durham: approximately equidistant from Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Durham, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough |
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Sedgefield | |
| Course in Northamptonshire: hosted the Greyhound Derby from 2014, but went into administration in 2018 and is not expected to re–open |
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Towcester | |
| First UK racecourse to install floodlights (1993) |
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Wolverhampton | |
| Situated in the Knaresmire – a marshy, undeveloped area within the city |
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York | |
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