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Warwick Racecourse is a horse racing course in Warwick, England. It is a National Hunt racing course and has a programme of 25 meetings throughout the year, many of which are televised. The first stand was built in 1808, and its most recent redevelopment was completed in 2018. [ 1 ]
The club also organises many smaller "club racing" meetings, featuring such classes as Classic Formula Ford, Caterhams, Clubmans and Legend Cars. As well as the many events organised by the headquarters at Thruxton, certain BARC regions organise race meetings too. There are five centres in the UK and one in Canada.
The majority of race meetings were held over two days at the end of September although some years the meeting was held in October and towards the end, in August. Wem Racecourse [111] Shropshire: England: not known: not known: Held a 'very inferior' race meeting at the beginning of October: Wenlock Racecourse [111] Shropshire: England: not known ...
Southwell Racecourse (/ ˈ s aʊ θ w ə l,-w ɛ l / SOWTH-wəl, -wel, locally also / ˈ s ʌ ð əl / SUDH-əl) is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located 2 miles (3 km) east of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England. It is one of only six racecourses in the UK to have an all-weather track and is one of three courses in the UK with a ...
The annual October meeting for 1793 was extended to six consecutive days and included the staging by the Caledonian Hunt of a prestigious King's Plate race of 100 guineas. Something of a "fiasco" occurred in 1803 when only three horses contested a four race meeting held over four days and each race was a walkover. In 1805 the first race was a ...
The 2008 Ebor Festival was abandoned after wet weather left the course waterlogged and unfit for racing. It was the first time in the event's history that the entire card had to be scrapped due to bad weather. As one of the last major race meetings of the flat season, it attracts racegoers from all over the UK and overseas.
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Hereford Racecourse is a horse racing venue located in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, owned by Herefordshire Council and operated by Arena Racing Company. The course is almost square in shape with a circuit of about a mile-and-a-half. [1] The first recorded race meeting was held in August 1771. [2]