Market Rasen Racecourse

Market Rasen

The racecourse from the air.
Location Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
Screened on Racing UK
Course type National Hunt
Official website

Market Rasen Racecourse is a National Hunt racecourse in the town of Market Rasen, in Lincolnshire, England.[1] [2]

The course is a right-handed oval with a circumference of around one-and-a-quarter miles.[3] Although National Hunt racing is traditionally a winter sport, Market Rasen stages a year-round programme of racing.[4]

Its most high-profile fixture is the Summer Plate meeting, normally staged on the third Saturday in July. This features the two-and-a-quarter miles Summer Hurdle and the eponymous Summer Plate, a two-and-three-quarter miles chase, both of which are among the most valuable National Hunt races staged in Britain during the summer months.[2]

There did used to be Point to Point racing held here on a left handed track inside the main National Hunt course. The course is now disused.

Notable races

References

  1. ↑ "Market Rasen racecourse". Days out in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire county council. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Fixtures". Market Rasen racecourse. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Market Rasen Race Course". Obstrepo Ltd. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "Market Rasen racecourse". Our racecourses. The Jockey Club. Retrieved 21 October 2013.

External links

Media related to Market Rasen Racecourse at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 53°22′54.38″N 0°18′37.73″W / 53.3817722°N 0.3104806°W / 53.3817722; -0.3104806


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