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  • April 19, 2013 at 10:39 #23900
    tommylorna
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    Hi can someone please tell me the classification of the Uk and Irish racecourses for the flat and national hunt please.
    Like which are A which are B ect.
    Thankyou.

    April 19, 2013 at 10:54 #436734
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    Hi can someone please tell me the classification of the Uk and Irish racecourses for the flat and national hunt please.
    Like which are A which are B ect.
    Thankyou.

    I’m happy to be corrected, but I think they must have been dropped. I haven’t heard them referred to in that way for many years now.

    Mike

    April 19, 2013 at 11:26 #436739
    TimJames
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    Here’s a list of the flat course grades:- flatstats.co.uk/racecourses.html

    April 19, 2013 at 12:23 #436746
    tommylorna
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    I have seen the flatstat grades are then grade 1 A, 2 B, 3 C, AND 4 D. Are there no longer courses lower than D.
    In the old grading system I believe it was A,B,C,D,E.
    I would like to know which courses fall in these grades.
    Thanyou.

    April 19, 2013 at 14:40 #436753
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    The Levy Board produce a list of daily prize money rate which gives an order of hierachy for courses:

    http://www.hblb.org.uk/document.php?id=457

    If you use prize money as a guide then you can make your own approximation of Grades.

    Rob

    April 19, 2013 at 20:41 #436788
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    These were the official gradings many years ago, mid 1980’s I think.

    Compared to racing today, there are a few surprises.

    Flat Rankings

    1. Ascot
    2. York
    3. Newmarket (Rowley Mile)
    4. Newmarket (July)
    5. Newbury
    6. Goodwood
    7. Epsom
    8. Sandown
    9. Chester
    10. Kempton
    11. Doncaster
    12. Haydock
    13. Yarmouth
    14. Ayr
    15. Newcastle
    16. Bath
    17. Thirsk
    18. Salisbury
    19. Redcar
    20. Lingfield
    21. Ripon
    22. Nottingham
    23. Windsor
    24. Wolverhampton
    25. Leicester
    26. Pontefract
    27. Brighton
    28. Beverley
    29. Chepstow
    30. Warwick
    31. Catterick
    32. Folkestone
    33. Musselburgh
    34. Carlisle
    35. Hamilton

    National Hunt Gradings

    Grade A

    Aintree
    Ascot
    Ayr
    Cheltenham
    Doncaster
    Haydock
    Kempton
    Newbury
    Newcastle
    Sandown

    Grade B

    Chepstow
    Fontwell
    Lingfield
    Newton Abbot
    Wetherby

    Grade C

    Catterick
    Folkestone
    Huntingdon
    Leicester
    Market Rasen
    Nottingham
    Plumpton
    Stratford
    Uttoxeter
    Warwick
    Wincanton
    Windsor
    Wolverhampton
    Worcester

    Grade D

    Bangor
    Carlisle
    Cartmel
    Exeter
    Musselburgh
    Fakenham
    Hereford
    Hexham
    Kelso
    Ludlow
    Perth
    Sedgefield
    Southwell
    Taunton
    Towcester

    ....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.

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