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Lingfield Park Racecourse (commonly referred to as Lingfield) is a horse racing course at Lingfield in Surrey, United Kingdom. It is owned by the ARC Racing and Leisure Group, formerly Arena Leisure Plc. Lingfield is best known as a winter all-weather flat racing course; the track is Polytrack, rather than the
The Chartwell Fillies' Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres) at Lingfield Park in May.
The John Smith's Silver Cup Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at York over a distance of 1 mile 5 furlongs and 188 yards (2,787 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in July. The race was first run in 1985 as the Sun Page 3 Stakes at Lingfield Park.
The Spring Cup is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years only. It is run at Lingfield over a distance of 7 furlongs and 1 yard (1,409 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late February or early March. The race was first run in 2003, and was awarded Listed status in 2004.
A gross profit tax is levied on all UK based bookmakers which is payable to the exchequer, and a separate sum is agreed and collected by the Horserace Betting Levy Board, a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, who use the funds for race prize money and the improvement of horse racing. [51] For the latest ...
The Winter Derby is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 23 yards (2,234 metres) at Southwell in February or March.
The Churchill Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile and 2 furlongs (2,012 metres). It is run over a distance of 1 mile and 2 furlongs (2,012 metres).
The BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4. 2013. 1 January – Channel 4 takes over as the exclusive terrestrial TV home of all horse racing in the UK. [15] The BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4.