Lingfield All Weather

Lingfield All Weather – Racecourse Template: Thursday 9 January

The Racing Horse offers their LINGFIELD AW RACECOURSE TEMPLATE for Thursday 9 January 2025. There is an 8-race card containing 7 Handicaps and a Maiden Stake Race. The going for the Polytrack surface is expected to be standard to slow. Winning favourites (last 5 years)Non-handicaps Handicaps2yo 56 120 47% -3.91 18 42 43% +4.333yo 103 199…

Image shows the back of horses galloping around a bend on a turf racecourse.

Racecourse Templates Revisited

There are 59 licensed racecourses in Great Britain, each with its unique characteristics. Except for Chelmsford and Ffos Las, all the courses date back to 1927 or earlier, maturating their own distinct features such as shape, size, cambers, gradients, undulations, right and left-hand travel (including ambidexterity), altitude, and various surface types. No other country in…

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What does the formbook say about Sharp courses?

This month we focus on race courses described as ‘Sharp’ . Here’s the list : Aintree , Bangor-on-Dee , Brighton , Cartmel, Catterick, Chester, Epsom, Fakenham, Fontwell, Goodwood, Hereford, Kelso, Kempton, Lingfield, Market Rasen, Musselburgh, Newton Abbot, Plumpton, Ripon, Sedgefield, Southwell, Stratford, Taunton, Warwick, Windsor, Wolverhampton, Chelmsford City. We look at the performance of favourites…

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Different Challenges on the All Weather – No course is quite the same…

In the UK we have six all weather courses that are used all the year round, but perhaps more importantly for flat fans offer the only flat racing during the cold, dank winter months. Three of the courses have a Polytrack surface, those being Chelmsford, Kempton and Lingfield; three have a tapeta surface namely Newcastle,…