Newbury Racecourse

Newbury Racecourse
Newbury
Newbury Stands.jpg
The Berkshire Stand and The Grandstand
Location Newbury, Berkshire
Coordinates 51°23′40″N 1°18′2″W / 51.39444°N 1.30056°W / 51.39444; -1.30056
Date opened September 26, 1905
Screened on Racing UK
Course type Flat
National Hunt
Notable races Lockinge Stakes, Challow Novices' Hurdle
Official website

Newbury Racecourse is a racecourse in the civil parish of Greenham, adjoining the town of Newbury in Berkshire, England. It has courses for flat races and over jumps. It hosts one of Great Britain's 31 Group 1 flat races, the Lockinge Stakes.

Horserace finishing at Newbury
Crowds at Newbury
Cois Farraig jumps the last in front at Newbury

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History

The racecourse held its first race meeting on 26/27 September 1905 and moved to its current location, in the Greenham area on the south-east side of Newbury, in 1910. During the First World War Newbury Race Course was used as a Prisoner-of-war camp for German Prisoners.[1][2]

Facilities

The racecourse has a runway for light aircraft in the centre of the course and dedicated railway station, which sees heavy traffic and additional trains on race days. It also acts as a venue for conferences, weddings and Hen and Stag parties.[3]

2011 Incident

On 12 February 2011, two horses - Marching Song and Fenix Two - collapsed and died in the Paddock while parading for the first race of the day. Two others also appeared to have been affected, Kid Cassidy and The Merry Giant. The novice hurdle race went ahead, starting about 20 minutes late, but the rest of the day's racing was abandoned.[4][5]

On 17 February, the preliminary results of the investigation into the incident were released.

Professor Tim Morris, Director of Equine Science and Welfare for the British Horseracing Authority, reported that they had been informed that there had been leakage from an electrical a cable running under the parade ring. Both the horses had been examined postmortem and sudden cardiac arrest had been identified as the cause of death, consistent with accidental electrocution being the cause of death, and that no other cause of death was being investigated.

Professor Morris also stated:

I can also confirm that, contrary to speculation, no evidence of any burn marks around the mouth was found on post mortem examination, neither were such marks found by the veterinary surgeons on the horses at the start.[6]

Notable races

Flat racing:

National Hunt racing:

References

External links

Coordinates: 51°23′40″N 1°18′2″W / 51.39444°N 1.30056°W / 51.39444; -1.30056


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