Perth Racecourse

Perth
Location	Perth, Scotland
Date opened	1908
Screened on	Racing UK
Course type	National Hunt
Notable races	Highlands National
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Perth Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue adjacent to the ancient Scone Palace, near Perth, Scotland.^[1]

Perth Racecourse at the site in Scone Palace Parklands opened in 1908 and is the northernmost track in Britain.^[1] However, horse racing in Perth has taken place since 1613 and was moved to Scone Palace due to drinking law ban in the North Inch. Lord Mansfield subsequently offered his land for everyone to enjoy the sport of Kings. The course is right-handed and ten furlongs in circumference. The steeplechase course consists of eight fences per circuit, with the water jump situated in front of the grandstand. The hurdle course is located on the inside going away from the stands, but switches to the outside of the chase course turning into the home straight.

References

1 2 British Racing and Racecourses (ISBN 978-0950139722) by Marion Rose Halpenny – Page 197

External links

Horseracing in Great Britain

Venues

National Hunt	Aintree Bangor-on-Dee Cartmel Cheltenham Exeter Fakenham Fontwell Park Hereford (closed 2012; reopened 2016) Hexham Huntingdon Kelso Ludlow Market Rasen Newton Abbot Perth Plumpton Sedgefield Stratford-on-Avon Taunton Towcester Uttoxeter Warwick Wincanton Worcester

Flat	Bath Beverley Brighton Chelmsford City Chester Epsom Downs Goodwood Great Yarmouth Hamilton Park Newmarket Nottingham Pontefract Redcar Ripon Salisbury Thirsk Windsor Wolverhampton York

Mixed	Ascot Ayr Carlisle Catterick Chepstow Doncaster Ffos Las Haydock Park Kempton Park Leicester Lingfield Park Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Sandown Park Southwell Wetherby

Former	Alexandra Park (1970) Wye (1974) Lanark (1977) Stockton (1981) Folkestone (2012)

Named races

Regulation

British Horseracing Authority

Other bodies

Course owners

Arena Racing Company (15) (Merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing by Reuben Brothers)
Jockey Club Racecourses (14)

Coordinates: 56°25′33.88″N 3°26′56.15″W / 56.4260778°N 3.4489306°W / 56.4260778; -3.4489306

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