Newmarket Racecourse

The world famous Newmarket Racecourse has two distinct courses - the Rowley Mile Course and the July Course. Both courses hosts some of the top racing seen in the flat season in this country.

The Rowley Mile

The Rowley Mile Course includes three main enclosures, the Premier Lounge, that provides outstanding views of the winning post and allows access to the other two enclosures. The first being the Grandstand & Paddock Enclosure, that was opened in 2000. This also provides excellent views of the Rowley Mile Course, plus the parade ring and the winners circle. The Rowley Mile Enclosure meanwhile offers great views of the course but not of the winning post or the parade ring. This enclosure hosts the betting outlets, mobile catering services and a kiddies playground.

The Rowley Mile course is home to the Guineas meeting and has hosted the <a href="http://www.2000guineas.org>2000 Guineas since 1809. It is named after King Charles 2nd, who’s nickname was ‘Old Rowley’ and who did more to further horse racing at Newmarket than any other at that time.

Both Newmarket racecourse’s has undergone substantial refurbishment and modernisation of recent times. In 2000 the Queen opened the highly impressive new Grandstand on the Rowley Mile Course and for the last two years Newmarket has busied itself with a substantial modernisation programme of the July Course.

Newmarket is truly the home of racing in the UK, much of the Town is dedicated to horse racing and there is so much for race-goers and even for the casual visitor to see and do.