newcastle racecourse

Consolida, a European shipper making her first start in The United States for trainer Paddy Gallagher, scored an impressive victory in the $50,000 California Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Golden Gate Fields. The daughter of European sire Sir Percy sat off a contentious pace before gobbling up ground in the final three-sixteenths of a mile, […]

Enable’s impressive victory in Sunday’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was celebrated throughout the racing world, from Chantilly Racecourse to Epsom, and all points in between. One racecourse that may still be celebrating is Newcastle, where the future Arc winner got her start. As the Racing Post reports, Enable made her career debut at Newcastle last […]

Newcastle Racecourse unveiled its new all-weather racing surface May 17, with eight races carded for the track’s inaugural meet. According to the Chronicle Live, the £12-million renovation of the racecourse took six months to complete, and includes not only the new Tapeta racing surface, but floodlights to conduct night racing as well. Newcastle is currently the only facility in the North […]

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has today confirmed that its Board has approved an application from Arena Racing Company (ARC) for Newcastle Racecourse to participate in the fixture allocation process for 2016 as an All Weather Track. The conversion of Newcastle’s existing 15 Flat turf Racecourse Fixtures to an All Weather Track has also been […]