Leicester Racecourse

[1] The earliest evidence suggests that racing took place at Abbey Meadow, Leicester on 23 March 1603, the day before Queen Elizabeth I died.

[2] On 31 March 1921, a young apprentice jockey, Gordon Richards, rode the first winner of his career at Leicester: Gay Lord, trained by Martin Hartigan.

On Friday 20 January 1931, Golden Miller won his first race, the Gopsall Maiden Hurdle, over 2 miles at Leicester, and worth £83.

Golden Miller won five consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups between 1932 and 1936, and the Grand National in 1934.

[3] The racecourse reached its reputational peak of in the late nineteenth century when it staged some of the most valuable races in the United Kingdom, including the Prince of Wales Stakes and the Portland Stakes, both of which carried more prize money than any of the five British flat-racing Classics in 1889.

There are six fences, including the water jump and an open ditch, down the back straight, which runs inside the flat course.