Lingfield is best known as a winter all-weather flat racing course; the track is Polytrack, rather than the usual turf found in the UK.

There are only five other all-weather courses in the UK, the others being at Southwell, Kempton, Wolverhampton, Newcastle, and Chelmsford City (formerly Great Leighs Racecourse).

Lingfield railway station adjoins the course, served by trains from London to East Grinstead via Oxted.

[4] Leisure Investments purchased the Lingfield Park from Muddle in 1988[5] and work to install an all-weather track on the inside of the turf course was completed in October 1989.

Other recent developments have been the re-laying of the back straight on the turf course in 2002/2003 and the construction of a £5.5 million grandstand in 2004.