Families flocked to Exeter Racecourse for the Finlake Holiday Park Family Day race meeting, where kids were entertained not only by behind the scenes tours, the chance to ride on a mechanical horse, pet Pennywell Farm’s animals, and to meet a retired racehorse, but an interactive ‘Kids love the Races’ roadshow designed to entertain and engage children in the sport.
Budding young jockeys enjoyed finding out more about the equine and human stars of the sport, designing their own racing silks and taking a look at some specialist racing equipment. They also got to check out what...
Free Easter eggs will be handed out to the first 500 children at Exeter Racecourse’s family day which takes place next Tuesday (April 15). Widely regarded as one of the best free days out for children in the Easter holidays, this year the annual event will feature Tractor Ted and his inflatable bouncy castle, as well as the brilliant Kids Love The Races Roadshow.
Three separate zones, Jockey School, Racehorse Zone and Let’s Go Racing, are sure to encourage children to fall in love with the races. A running race down the home straight, questions and answers with the country’s top...
Date: Wednesday 30th April 2014 Time: 9.45 am - 1.00 pm / 3 hours CPD Venue: Exeter Racecourse
St John's Chambers' Professional Negligence Team will be speaking at Devon & Somerset Law Society's Professional Negligence Update on Wednesday, 30th April at Exeter Racecourse from 9.45am until 1.00pm.
Topics include:
John Dickinson Limitation issues in professional negligence claims John will cover limitation periods for the misconduct of litigation and limitation issues in lenders’ negligence claims.
David Fletcher Professional negligence in construction...
Ladies’ Night at Exeter Racecourse, in association with Exeter Living, is when the glitz and glamour of racing descends on Haldon Hill. With fabulous prizes to be won for the best dressed ladies and gentleman it’s a date not to be missed.
Those who want to make the occasion an extra special night can chose to enjoy a luxury racecourse picnic for £49 per person or £450 per table of ten, and then indulge in some free experiences with Amanda Marsden Aveda Lifestyle Salon in Exeter.
There is also 25 per cent off all tickets purchased prior to midnight on Friday 2nd May and...
Exeter Racecourse has launched a fabulous new art competition for children aged 11 and under with the overall winner featured on the front page of its racecard on Family Day, April 15.
Exeter want children to come up with vibrant designs which depict the colour and vibrancy of a day at the races, from the brightly coloured silks worn by jockeys, to smiling faces in the crowds.
There are prizes to third place in each category – seven and under and eight to 11 - including vouchers from Leonard Coombe Master Saddlers and Country Life, family tickets to the races as well as the...
Exeter Racecourse has launched a fabulous new art competition for children aged 11 and under with the overall winner featured on the front page of its racecard on Family Day, April 15.
We want children to come up with vibrant designs which depict the colour and vibrancy of a day at the races, from the brightly coloured silks worn by jockeys, to smiling faces in the crowds.
There are prizes to third place in each category – seven and under and eight to 11 - including vouchers from Leonard Coombe Master Saddlers and Country Life, family tickets to the races as well as the...
Exeter Racecourse has announced today that it will now stage an all hurdle card at its Bathwick Tyres-sponsored fixture this Sunday.
With 50 per cent of the chase course waterlogged and more rain expected, the decision has been taken to give the popular fixture the best chance of going ahead.
Clerk of the course Barry Johnson said: “We have had 32mm of rain in the last 24 hours which has left the chase course 50% waterlogged. With a forecast of at least another 30mm of rain before racing on Sunday the decision has been made to run an all hurdle card.
Former Grand National winner Comply or Die, who famously cost William Hill bookmakers more than £7million when he won the world’s most famous race in 2008, is the guest retired racehorse at Exeter’s Bathwick Tyres Super Sunday meeting this weekend, February 9.
Jump racing’s superstar retired safe and sound in 2011 to Timmy Murphy’s Cilldara Stud in Gloucestershire having won eight races and £798,809 in prize money.
Now aged 15, he is used to help educate the youngsters at the yard. Verity, Timmy’s wife, said. “He definitely has a character and he doesn’t like doing nothing...
Tractor Ted, the well-known children’s character, will be making his first ever appearance at Exeter’s family day on Tuesday, April 15.
As well as Tractor Ted and his bouncy castle, children will be given the opportunity to get to know horse racing when a host of activities including a behind the scenes tour, a running race down the home straight plus the ever popular question and answer and autograph session with top jockeys. Children can also ride on the Equicizer, a mechanical horse, to get a feel of what it’s like to be a jockey, take part in a quiz, pet some farm animals,...
Exeter Racecourse stages the first of its four hunter chases at Exeter on March 18 when the top class chaser Diamond Edge will be remembered in the Diamond Edge Open Hunter Chase.
The racecourse is committed to supporting the grass roots of horse racing, with sponsorship of a series of ten point-to-points across the Devon and Cornwall area, culminating in prestigious final at the racecourse on May 6.
It was edge of the seat stuff in 1979 when Diamond Edge held off Royal Frolic and Master Smudge to win the Whitbread Gold Cup at Sandown. While Diamond Edge Open Hunters’ Chase...
