List of race tracks by grade (UK)

https://www.flatstats.co.uk/racecourses.html

as I said, site down

Not down for me, Platini.

Have you actually tried copying and pasting the link in a new tab?

Anyway, here it is...

Thanks for the screenshot. I'm getting a 403 server error.

Ffos Las, Chepstow and Brighton should be downgraded to a new Grade 5.
How can Ayr be the same grade as Newbury? Nearly all the racing there is crap.

Bizarre list, Chelmsford City a grade 3 track

I thought Newmarket had a straight race of more than 1m (8f) ?

yes the rowley course is a 1m 2f

Epsom 1,Sandown 2
in terms of strength in depth over the season i only consider Ascot,Doncaster,Goodwood,Haydock,Newbury,Newmarket,Sandown and York to be Grade 1 tracks on the flat and Aintree,Ascot,Cheltenham,Doncaster,Haydock,Kempton,Newbury,Sandown over the jumps.If you took the Derby meeting away the quality of racing at Epsom is on a par with Lingfield.

Epsom is a special case: grade 1 on the first weekend in June and rubbish the rest of the year.

Some of those desciptions are a bit odd. Windsor is a very funny pear. York is no longer horseshoe. Southwell turf is not at all stiff.

Lingfield (AW) galloping! Who wrote this dross?

NH Grade 1 tracks are currently Aintree, Ascot, Ayr, Cheltenham, Doncaster, Haydock, Kempton, Newbury, Newcastle and Sandown. The list can change though over the years.

From memory they can change each year. It depended on prize money over a period of time.

Bizarre list, Chelmsford City a grade 3 track

Surely have to also question it being listed as 'Midlands' too - obviously South??

So South its now SUNK.

Newbury should be G1 for both codes - the quality of the 2 & 3 year old maidens as strong as most other venues.  Never considered Chester to be in the Midlands - was on the booze there last weekend, nothing with a Midland feel about the place.