Switzerland has a horse racing course

[BlackGold]

Never knew and I’ve been living here for 20 years!

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/racetrack_switzerland-s-legendary-horse-racing-track—in-pictures/44377282

[Nathan Hughes]

You will have to go and report back to us all BlackGold

Some nice photos there too
not sure about the half naked jockeys
or the photo with either small horses or big jockeys though

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[phil walker]

I’m sure they have a better way of starting jumps racing than the UK’s use of knicker elastic

[robnorth]

We visited Aarau a couple of years ago whilst staying in Zurich. It’s about 25-30 minutes on the train from Zurich and there are loads of trains even on a Sunday. Course is about a mile and a half from the station and buses from there go past the course which is part of a sports complex including athletics, swimming and football.

The course is about 7 furlongs round, with a steeplechase course inside the flat course, hurdle races are run on the flat course and there’s a cross-country course making it’s way back and forth in a series of loops. Cards include, flat, trotting, hurdles, steeplechases and cross-country events. THe meeting before the one we visited even had a trotting race with children driving miniature ponies.

Admission for a reserved seat in the ‘Tribune’ was CHF30, I think it was CHF25 for an unreserved seat and cheaper if you ‘slummed it’ in the standing enclosure.

Rob

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