Racecourses · North East England
Kelso Racecourse
Kelso Racecourse in England North East, United Kingdom.
Iain Lees — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 4 h–6 h
About
Kelso Racecourse is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Kelso Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Kelso, Scotland. It is frequently described as "Britain's Friendliest Racecourse". It was voted the Best Small Course in Scotland and the North of England in 2007, 2012 and 2014 by the Racegoers Club. In addition to staging Scotland's most valuable hurdle race, the Morebattle Hurdle, Kelso stages a comparatively high number of Class 1, 2 & 3 races over jumps.
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Background
History
Horse racing in the Kelso area is recorded to have taken place sporadically since 1734 at Caverton Edge, five miles from the town; from 1760 meetings were held there regularly. The meetings at Kelso and Edinburgh were the only ones listed for Scotland in the first annual edition of Weatherby's Racing Calendar in 1773. The annual October meeting for 1793 was extended to six consecutive days and included the staging by the Caledonian Hunt of a prestigious King's Plate race of 100 guineas. Something of a "fiasco" occurred in 1803 when only three horses contested a four race meeting held over four days and each race was a walkover. In 1805 the first race was a walkover by a horse named Honest…
Architecture
Kelso consists of two sharp, left-handed tracks - a chase track of 1 mile 600 yards and a hurdle course of 1 mile 330 yards. The course also has a punishing uphill run-in of 2 furlongs.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.6125, -2.4368
- District
- Scottish Borders
- Postcode
- TD5 7NL
- Parliamentary constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
- Established
- 1822
- Official site
- www.kelso-races.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q6386547 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kelso Racecourse (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kelso Racecourse?
- Kelso Racecourse is in North-East England, United Kingdom (postcode TD5 7NL).
- When was Kelso Racecourse built?
- Built or established in 1822.
- Who owns Kelso Racecourse?
- Kelso Racecourse is owned by Kelso Races Ltd..
- How do I get to Kelso Racecourse?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode TD5 7NL. It sits within the Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk parliamentary constituency.