By Simon Jackson. Tryster completed a hat-trick on the day for Charlie Appleby when he landed the £200,000 Coral Easter Classic, the feature race on All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Lingfield Park. The four-year-old looked to have it all to do when still seventh of the eight runners with just a furlong remaining, but finished…
By Simon Jackson. Arena Racing Company (ARC) has announced a series of music events this spring and summer that includes gigs at Lingfield Park, Royal Windsor and Fontwell Park. The initiative comprises a mix of DJs that includes Jo Whiley, Sara Cox and Fearne Cotton and bands such as Madness, UB40 and Slade as part…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. Godolphin won both Listed races at the launch of the second All-Weather Championships as Lingfield Park celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first British race meeting staged on an artificial surface. Lingfield created history on October 30, 1989 when they held the first all-weather meeting in the UK and…
By Simon Jackson. Arena Racing Company’s (ARC) racing director Jim Allen reiterated their commitment to the all-weather after the successful start to racing on Tapeta at Wolverhampton. The race meeting on Monday attracted 2,000 spectators to Dunstall Park to witness racing on the new synthetic Tapeta track, which was being used for the first time…
By Simon Jackson. Fontwell Park is offering 20 per cent off tickets to Ladies Evening at the West Sussex racecourse where they are set to stage a seven race card on August 14. Racegoers need only to use the promotional code advertised on Fontwell’s website to claim the discount for an evening’s national hunt racing…
By Simon Jackson. Fontwell Park is one of the racecourses set to benefit from a £500,000 investment by Arena Racing Company (ARC) who are undertaking a programme to enhance the racing surfaces of several tracks. The popular West Sussex course, that comprises a hurdle track and figure of eight steeplechase course, is one of seven…
By Simon Jackson. Wolverhampton held their last meeting on the Polytrack today before closing to lay a new racing surface, a move that is set to benefit Lingfield Park who will host an additional five fixtures. Wolverhampton’s next meeting is scheduled for August 11, where they will race on a new Tapeta surface that will…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. Horse racing executives have expressed their delight at the success of the inaugural All-Weather Championship Finals day that attracted 8,777 spectators to Lingfield Park on Good Friday. The high attendance numbers justified the organiser’s faith in the All-Weather Championship series which commenced in October and concluded with a lucrative…
By Simon Jackson Arena Racing Company (ARC) has expressed their delight at the quality of entries for the £1million All-Weather Championship Finals at Lingfield Park on Good Friday. Qualifying races for the six championship events have been taking place since October at Lingfield, Kempton, Southwell and Wolverhampton. To qualify for the finals horses needed to…
