Lingfield Park Racecourse

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Lingfield Park Racecourse
National Hunt
Official website

Lingfield Park Racecourse (commonly referred to as Lingfield) is a

Arena Leisure Plc
.

Lingfield is best known as a winter all-weather

Polytrack, rather than the usual turf found in the UK. There are only five other all-weather courses in the UK, the others being at Southwell, Kempton, Wolverhampton, Newcastle, and Chelmsford City
(formerly Great Leighs Racecourse). Lingfield also stages National Hunt and flat races on turf.

Lingfield railway station adjoins the course, served by trains from London to East Grinstead via Oxted.

History

Lingfield Park racecourse is located in a 450-acre (1.8 km2) estate and was opened in 1890 by the

Ladbrokes sold the course in 1982 to Ron Muddle.[3] The new owner installed flood defences on the estate to alleviate the flooding that had become a major problem in the years immediately after the war. A golf course was developed and this opened in June 1987.[4]

Leisure Investments purchased the Lingfield Park from Muddle in 1988

Polytrack, was completed in November of the same year. Other recent developments have been the re-laying of the back straight on the turf course in 2002/2003 and the construction of a £5.5 million grandstand in 2004. In early 2009 the course had another record broken as Matsunosuke became the highest rated horse to win on the all-weather surface rated 112 or 117 by Racing Post rating. This was dubbed as the greatest all-weather horse of all time in the UK.[by whom?
]

In addition, there's now a

Marriott hotel based on the racecourse.[6]

The racecourse is featured in the 1954 film The Rainbow Jacket.[7]

Notable races

Month DOW Race Name Type Grade Distance Age/Sex
February Saturday Kachy Stakes A W Flat Listed 6f 1y 4yo +
February Saturday Tandridge Stakes A W Flat Listed 1m 1y 4yo +
March Saturday Spring Cup A W Flat Listed 7f 3yo
May Saturday Chartwell Fillies' Stakes Flat Group 3 7f 3yo + f
May Saturday Lingfield Oaks Trial Flat Listed 1m 3f 106y 3yo only f
May Saturday Lingfield Derby Trial Flat Listed 1m 3f 106y 3yo only c&g
Other races

References

  1. ^ a b Sargeant, Karen (6 August 2020) [29 March 2018]. "History of All-Weather Racing at Lingfield Park". Eclipse Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Lingfield Park Racecourse".
  3. ^ "Ladbroke in £3m sale". The Times. No. 61126. London. 8 January 1982. p. 12.
  4. ^ Hadert, David (16 January 1987). "Muddle putting Lingfield in good order". The Guardian. p. 25.
  5. ^ Tate, Michael (27 August 1988). "Fatso saddles up for Lingfield". The Times. No. 63171. London. p. 23.
  6. ^ "Lingfield Park Hotel".
  7. ISBN 978-0-7486-3289-3
    .

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