Goodwood Racecourse
| Location | Chichester, West Sussex |
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| Screened on | Racing UK |
| Course type | Flat |
| Notable races | Stewards' Cup King George Stakes Goodwood Cup |
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Goodwood Racecourse is a horse-racing track five miles north of Chichester, West Sussex, in England controlled by the family of the Duke of Richmond, whose seat is nearby Goodwood House. It hosts the annual Glorious Goodwood meeting, which is one of the highlights of the British flat racing calendar, and is home to 2 of the UK's 31 Group One flat races, the Sussex Stakes and the Nassau Stakes.
It is considered to enjoy a very attractive setting to the north of Trundle Iron Age hill fort, which is used as an informal grandstand with views of the whole course. One problem is that its proximity to the coast means that it can get very foggy.
This is an unusual, complex racecourse with a straight six furlongs - the "Stewards' Cup Course" - which is uphill for the first furlong and mostly downhill thereafter. There is a tight right-handed loop at the far end of the straight on which there are starts for various longer distance courses. These include the 1 mile 2 furlongs "Craven Course", the 1m 4f "Gratwicke Course" and the 1m 6f "Bentinck Course". The start for the 2m 5f "Cup Course" is quite close to the winning post - horses travel outwards on the straight, around the loop and back. Throughout the loop there are severe undulations and sharp turns. The course is used for flat racing only.
From 1968 to 1970 the course's late summer meeting was shown on ITV, and from the early 2000s some races from the course occasionally appeared on Channel 4, but otherwise the course had been covered exclusively by the BBC for 50 years from 1956 (when it first appeared on television) to 2006. From 2007, the rights have passed to Channel 4 Racing.
[edit] Notable races
- Celebration Mile
- Cocked Hat Stakes
- Conqueror Stakes
- Festival Stakes
- Foundation Stakes
- Glorious Stakes
- Goodwood Cup
- Gordon Stakes
- Height of Fashion Stakes
- King George Stakes
- Lennox Stakes
- Lillie Langtry Stakes
- March Stakes
- Molecomb Stakes
- Nassau Stakes
- Oak Tree Stakes
- On The House Stakes
- Prestige Stakes
- Richmond Stakes
- Select Stakes
- Stardom Stakes
- Starlit Stakes
- Stewards' Cup
- Supreme Stakes
- Sussex Stakes
- Tapster Stakes
- Thoroughbred Stakes
- Vintage Stakes
[edit] External links
[edit] See also
- Doctor Who at the BBC, a series of Doctor Who releases, which included an audio adventure entitled Glorious Goodwood, set at a Goodwood race, featuring Elisabeth Sladen and Jon Pertwee.
Coordinates: 50°53′49″N 0°44′33″W / 50.89694°N 0.7425°W
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