Thirsk Racecourse

Thirsk
Location	Thirsk, North Yorkshire
Owned by	Thirsk Racecourse Ltd.
Screened on	Racing UK
Course type	Flat
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Thirsk Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England. The course is a left handed oval of about 1m2f with a 3f finishing straight and a 6f chute. The present course opened in 1923, but racing had taken place on the old course over 200 years earlier.^[1]

The main road from Ripon to Thirsk runs past the course, and it is very popular with northern trainers.^[1]

In 1940 it staged the war-time substitute St. Leger.

Notable races

Thirsk Hunt Cup

References

1 2 British Racing and Racecourses (ISBN 978-0950139722) by Marion Rose Halpenny - Page 227

External links

Horseracing in Great Britain

Venues

National Hunt	Aintree Bangor-on-Dee Cartmel Cheltenham Exeter Fakenham Fontwell Park Hereford (closed 2012; reopened 2016) Hexham Huntingdon Kelso Ludlow Market Rasen Newton Abbot Perth Plumpton Sedgefield Stratford-on-Avon Taunton Towcester Uttoxeter Warwick Wincanton Worcester

Flat	Bath Beverley Brighton Chelmsford City Chester Epsom Downs Goodwood Great Yarmouth Hamilton Park Newmarket Nottingham Pontefract Redcar Ripon Salisbury Thirsk Windsor Wolverhampton York

Mixed	Ascot Ayr Carlisle Catterick Chepstow Doncaster Ffos Las Haydock Park Kempton Park Leicester Lingfield Park Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Sandown Park Southwell Wetherby

Former	Alexandra Park (1970) Wye (1974) Lanark (1977) Stockton (1981) Folkestone (2012)

Named races

Regulation

British Horseracing Authority

Other bodies

Course owners

Arena Racing Company (15) (Merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing by Reuben Brothers)
Jockey Club Racecourses (14)

Coordinates: 54°13′56.16″N 1°21′26.72″W / 54.2322667°N 1.3574222°W / 54.2322667; -1.3574222

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