Thirsk Racecourse

Racecourse (Equine) in Yorkshire, England

Thirsk
The Grandstand
Location	Thirsk, North Yorkshire
Owned by	Thirsk Racecourse Ltd.
Screened on	Racing TV
Course type	Flat
Official website

Thirsk Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England. The course is a left handed oval of about 1 mile 2 furlongs with a 3 furlong finishing straight and a 6 furlong chute. The present course opened in 1923, but racing had taken place on the old course at nearby Black Hambleton over 200 years earlier.^[1]^[2]

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
Summer Cup

References

^ ^a ^b British Racing and Racecourses (ISBN 978-0950139722) by Marion Rose Halpenny - Page 227
^ "Hambleton Racecourse". Greyhound Derby. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

External links

Official website
Course guide on GG.COM
Course guide on At The Races

Horse racing in Great Britain

Venues

National Hunt	Aintree Bangor-on-Dee Cartmel Cheltenham Exeter Fakenham Fontwell Park Hereford Hexham Huntingdon Kelso Ludlow Market Rasen Newton Abbot Perth Plumpton Sedgefield Stratford-on-Avon Taunton 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
Closed since 1945	Newport (1948) Colwall Park (1949) Buckfastleigh (1960) Hurst Park (1962) Manchester (1963) Woore (1963) Lewes (1964) Lincoln (1964) Bogside (1965) Birmingham (1965) Rothbury (1965) Alexandra Park (1970) Wye (1974) Lanark (1977) Stockton (1981) Folkestone (2012) Towcester (2019)

Named races

Regulation

British Horseracing Authority

Other bodies

Course owners

Arena Racing Company (16) (Merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing by Reuben Brothers)
Jockey Club Racecourses (14)

Television broadcasting

ITV (free-to-air) - Racing TV - Sky Sports Racing

v t e Racecourses in Yorkshire
Active	Beverley Catterick Doncaster Pontefract Redcar Ripon Thirsk Wetherby York
Defunct	Bedale Bishop Burton Bradford Follifoot Gatherley Moor Hambleton¹ Hedon (Hull) Langton Wold (New Malton) Leeds (Haigh Green Park) Middleham¹ Northallerton Richmond¹ Selby Stokesley Stockton²
Notes	1: Site is still used as gallops (a place to train and exercise horses) 2: Stockton Racecourse was originally north of the River Tees, but a new cut in the river changed it to be on the south side of the Tees, and therefore in the North Riding of Yorkshire.