Thirsk Racecourse

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 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

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

External links

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

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.