Market Rasen Course Guide

Market Rasen stage National Hunt meetings all year round with a strong emphasis on summer jumping. Two of its seasonal highlights, the Listed Summer Plate and the Summer Hurdle, both take place during the same Saturday meeting in mid-July.

Run over two and a half miles, the Summer Plate is the richest race run at the course and one of the highlights of the summer jumping season. The 2008 renewal went to the Peter Bowen-trained Snoopy Loopy, who that autumn won the Grade 1 Betfair Chase at Haydock Park.

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Right handed, sharp with minor undulations. Generally favours nippy types (though the ground can get testing), plenty of races being won by those who quicken best on the run to the first obstacle in the home straight. Fairly easy fences, with the third last catching out fewer in recent seasons than used to be the case.


Not many courses put such a premium on the ability to travel through a race as Market Rasen. Even though it’s relatively flat, it’s a hard place to make up a lot of ground. You can turn into the straight thinking you’ve loads of time to make a challenge but, if others quicken away from you at that point, you struggle to get back to them. If you kick from the turn in, though, it’s a fair way home and you almost look up with a furlong left and ask yourself ‘am I not there yet’. The home straight really is l-o-n-g.

View from the saddle: Mick Fitzgerald
Upcoming races

Results

13:00 Market Rasen Racecourse Caravan & Touring Site Maiden Hurdle

GBB Race

2m ½f | Class 4 | 4YO plus | 11 ran
  • Winner: Moore Brion 4/6 Fav
  • Jockey: S Bowen Trainer: O Murphy
  • Owner: Graeme Moore, Kate & Andrew Brooks

13:35 Book Boxing Day At Market Rasen Juvenile Hurdle

GBB Race

2m ½f | Class 4 | 3YO only | 7 ran
  • Winner: Minella Buoy 5/2 2Fav
  • Jockey: Danny McMenamin Trainer: G Hanmer
  • Owner: Jhs (lf) Ltd

14:10 Unibet Middle Distance Chase Series Veterans' Handicap Chase

2m 5½f | Class 2 | 10YO plus | 5 ran
  • Winner: Triple Trade 15/8 Fav
  • Jockey: Brendan Powell Trainer: J Tizzard
  • Owner: Sjs Racing

14:41 Christmas Jumper & Student Raceday 3rd December Handicap Chase

GBB Race

3m 3½f | Class 3 | 4YO plus | 4 ran
  • Winner: Paper Mill 11/8 Fav
  • Jockey: Charlie Hammond Trainer: S Edmunds
  • Owner: Mr M Kehoe

15:13 Summer Plate Ladies Day On Sale Now Handicap Chase

2m 3f | Class 5 | 4YO plus | 5 ran
  • Winner: Walk In The Valley 7/4 Fav
  • Jockey: Danny McMenamin Trainer: J Parkinson & S Smith
  • Owner: Mrs S Smith

15:48 27 Pound Race & Roast Package Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle

2m ½f | Class 5 | 3YO plus | 6 ran
  • Winner: Lightning Flash 7/4 Fav
  • Jockey: James Turner Trainer: Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies
  • Owner: Mr N A Twiston-Davies

16:23 Tractor Drivers Go Free On Agriculture Raceday 'Newcomers' NH Flat Race

GBB Race

2m ½f | Class 5 | 4YO to 5YO | 4 ran
  • Winner: Soviet Sailor 15/2
  • Jockey: Daniel Sansom Trainer: J W Mullins
  • Owner: Andrew Cocks And Tara Johnson
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Address & Contact

Market Rasen Racecourse
Legsby Road
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
LN8 3EA
01673 843434

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