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what is the nearest racecourse to where you live
what is the nearest racecourse to where you live
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Lingfield's my nearest. But prefer to go to Sandown. Had some cracking days (and nights) there.
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Marsa trotting track
http://www.maltaracingclub.com/ Anyone fancy a night out athe DelBoys? |
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Wetherby, used to be York (member there)
Two or three years and it will be York again  |
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Winzer, not been for ages though
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Nottingham. Not been for about 10 years, when it was rubbish - could never work out why they stopped Naional Hunt racing there.
It's on the same site as the dog track, which I visit every week. |
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chelt nearest track
can walk to siddington ptp across the fields |
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Anybody else wondering where this thread is going? Op posts a q, we all answer (including me!), some of us decide to add which ones are our favourites. Ends up a pretty useless, repetitious and unwieldy list of stuff. Is it me?
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Newmarket is my nearestr course, about 5 miles away to the July course and 5 1/2 to the Rowley. Its handy as I know all the back roads to avoid the traffic on big race days.
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blackbarn
23 Feb 12 00:34 Anybody else wondering where this thread is going? Op posts a q, we all answer (including me!), some of us decide to add which ones are our favourites. Ends up a pretty useless, repetitious and unwieldy list of stuff. Is it me? I'm compiling a list of who goes where so I can sell it burglars on race days |
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im after going reports during the season
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Good call redbag. As has been reported previously, my paddock an excellent proxy for Plumpton as soil and micro-climate very similar.
twomatchpoints - my heart leapt when I read your post, but I first read it as burgers!! I thought here's an end to those pink slabs of condemned offal that pass for burgers at most racecourses (Goodwood excluded!) |
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I drive past the Old Lincoln track regular. There is a main road which splits the straight track from the Grandstand. It still intrigues me every time i drive past.
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about 4 mile from leopardsown.
about 1km from shelbourne pk dogs. |
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A few miles from Gowran Park.
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Carlisle when lived in UK, currently Mijas. Also have vague aim to get to all UK racecourses though slowly dawning on me that I have not the never ending time once imagined. Only been to a dozen or so at present but they include the 3 that Jimmy hasn't yet got to!
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I drive past the running rails of the old Galleywood racecourse quite often.
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Galleywood had a racecourse? Never knew that.
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leafy Lingfield
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Ascot... 150 yards
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Yeah, if you drive through Galleywood, theres a pub called The running mare at the crossroads, it closed in 1937 (i think), i know Golden miller ran there, you can still make out the racecourse and the running rails are still there.
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when i say "it closed in 1937", i meant the racecourse ,not the pub
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Had no idea. Used to drive through it quite often when I were a nipper because my grandmother lived in Billericay, and we'd go shopping in Chelmsford.
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As the Crow Flies
Nottm - 21 Miles Uttox - 21 Southwell - 25 Donny - 32 Visited them all many times, my favorite courses are in Ireland . |
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Ok beat this one.
Up until the early 50's, my family used to OWN Lewis racecourse ! |
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Do you mean Lewes?
Or was there one in Scotland? |
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Yeah, sorry, LEWES, near Brighton.
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I used to have a friend who owned 3 1/2 racecourses is that any good?
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Yes, that is a far more impressive claim than my meagre effort.
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My mate looks over his back garden to the downhill fence at Folkestone.
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I like Folkestone, it gets a bad press as a mundane gaff track but I like places like that. It's not all about the glamour meetings, far from it in fact. Us die hards like a bit of spit and sawdust every now and then.
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Yeah, i've been to Folkestone more than anywhere else , still like it,nice people.
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The first proper race meeting I went to as an adult by myself was Folkestone back in 1986. The next time I went there the following year alot of it had been blown away by the famous "hurricane". There was an old cricket pavillion in the car park that had dissapeared along with a bar by the parade ring. I remember the goldfish pond had survived, but it was mostly a scene of devastation. Racing still went ahead though. Back then, there were 3 or 4 rows of bookies for a miserable Monday afternoon, and bookies joints on the infield ! I was there the day Barney curlys horse won him a million quid, the atmosphere was electric.
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I've had some freaky placepot results at Folkestone in the past. One was every favourite being placed and it paid just over £200.
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Bang in the middle between Nottingham and Southwell
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Bang in the middle between Nottingham and Southwell
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Bath is still my nearest course, about 10 miles away, but I used to live within a mile - used to run up the hill to it when I was young and fit!
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are you Kate Bush?
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Salisbury for me - 28 miles
not counting the point-to-point in the Forest |