RDC COURSES

Brighton

One of just two racecourses in the UK that doesn’t technically join to form a full circuit, it’s a horse-shoe shape of one and a half miles in length. The finishing straight is four furlongs long with a steep descent followed a slight ascent to the finish.

Kempton Park

The jumps course is a triangular track of one mile five furlongs, with a 220-yard run-in.

The flat all-weather racing is right-handed and measures eight or ten furlongs, depending on the race and whether the inner or outer curve is used. The all-weather course is a floodlit Polytrack.

Lingfield Park

Lingfield’s left-handed all-weather track measures just under a mile and a quarter, and the turns are sharp.The turf track runs outside of it and is almost a mile in length, with the facility for longer races to join four furlongs further out.

Epsom Downs

Unusually, Epsom is a U-shaped track with chutes for the start of races over five, six or seven furlongs.perhaps best known as the course where suffragette Emily Davison threw herself in front of King George V’s horse Anmer in protest.

Goodwood

An unusual track, Goodwood has six straight furlongs; uphill for the first and mainly downhill for the rest. A tight right-handed loop at the far end allows longer distance races to join. The course is used for flat turf racing only.

Sandown Park

Right handed, oval-shaped course thirteen furlongs in length with a straight of half a mile. Essentially a fair, galloping course which places the emphasis on stamina courtesy of a gradual climb from the home turn.

Royal Windsor

A quirky track, with tight bends. A figure of eight shape, twelve and a half furlongs long. The home straight is five furlongs long, with a slight kink in the track three furlongs out.