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Newmarket Racecourses

Uniquely Newmarket is the home to two distinct and remarkable racecourses, each offering world class racing. The larger of the two, Rowley Mile stages meetings throughout the spring and autumn whereas the picturesque July Course features racing during the summer months.
The Rowley Mile combines tradition and historic status with the state of the art facilities for the 21st racegoer. The Millennium Grandstand’s contemporary and dramatic architecture dominates the Suffolk skyline and offers spectacular views over the course and surrounding countryside. Following the completion of a multi-million pound development project, the Grandstand was opened by Her Majesty the Queen on Two Thousand Guineas Day in the year 2000.

The course takes its name from King Charles II horse, ‘Old Rowley’. The first official race in Britain to be run under written rules, the Town Plate, took place on this course during Charles’s reign in 1664. The King rode to victory in the race in 1671.

The Rowley Mile hosts some of the most significant racing in the world. The first two Classic races of the flat season, the One Thousand and Two Thousand Guineas, are run on the course in early May. Champions’ Day in October is one of the best individual racedays in the British calendar, when spectators can witness the crème de la crème of Europe’s finest equine athletes competing for one of British racing’s top prizes.