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In May 2017 the Arena Racing Company (ARC) acquired both Sunderland Greyhound Stadium and Newcastle Greyhound Stadium from William Hill. [15] The annual UK William Hill festival of racing was the principal event at the track, the meeting included the William Hill Grand Prix and William Hill Classic and was shown live on Sky Sports. In 2018 the ...
The Arena Racing Company Grand Prix (formerly the William Hill Grand Prix) is a greyhound racing competition inaugurated in 2007.It was held at Sunderland over 640 metres and formed part of a festival of racing at the track which also included the Classic. [1]
The distances of the races are expressed in miles, furlongs and yards. In 2017 the BHA concluded a racecourse survey and remeasurement which led to some racecourses changing the exact distance of some races, or moving race start points to fit with advertised race distances. [1]
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The William Hill Handicap Hurdle is a Premier Handicap National Hunt handicap hurdle race in England which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in April. The prize fund is £75,000.
The service supplied more than 1,200 UK horse race meetings per year, 1,500 greyhound meetings, 300 Irish and 300 South African horse race meetings and, as a response to the introduction of the National Lottery, a range of numbers betting products, including virtual horse and greyhound racing.
Musselburgh Racecourse is a horse racing venue located in the Millhill area of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, UK, close to the River Esk.It is the second biggest racecourse in Scotland (the first being Ayr) and is the fourteenth biggest in the UK. [1]
The Classic is a greyhound racing competition held at Sunderland Greyhound Stadium. [1] It was inaugurated in 2007 [2] and initially formed part of a festival of racing which also included the William Hill Grand Prix. In 2019 the Classic was renamed, dropping the sponsor's name William Hill. The event was not run in 2020 but returned during ...