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Kempton Park Racecourse is a horse racing track together with a licensed entertainment and conference venue in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England, on the border with Greater London; it is 13 miles west of Charing Cross in central London.
It has increasingly come to be referred to as the Epsom Oaks in both the UK [citation needed] and overseas countries, although 'Epsom' is not part of the official title of the race.) It is the third of Britain's five Classic races to be held during the season, and the second of two restricted to fillies.
British horse racing is served by a daily, national newspaper, the Racing Post, founded in 1986. This publication carries industry news, race cards for all British and Irish race meetings, tipping columns and betting information, as well as smaller sections on greyhound racing and general sport.
The Sporting Life was a British newspaper published from 1859 until 1998, best known for its coverage of horse racing and greyhound racing. [1] Latterly it has continued as a multi-sports website. Priced at one penny, the Sporting Life initially appeared twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
A National Hunt (NH) Pattern of important races was first recognized in 1964 when the Horserace Betting Levy Board made a grant of £64,000 to fund a "prestige race allocation" split between the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National.
The longest race run today is 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles. However, the course used to extend a further half-mile across the golf course towards Roedean . This made four-mile races possible, starting at the winning post and going the reverse way round the track, then looping at the two-mile start and returning the conventional way. [ 1 ]
James Gill wrote in 1975: "There is not a racecourse in the country more popular among both National Hunt and flat than Newbury.Riders appreciate the good ground they generally find on what is a fine, galloping track with long straights, easy left-handed bends and a racing surface of resilient, thickly-matted meadow turf.
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