[1] It is situated at Colwick Park, close to the River Trent and about 3 km east of the city centre.

[citation needed] Nottingham races, before they moved to Colwick Park, had been held for about two hundred years on the Forest Recreation Ground, about two miles from the city centre.

), the Forest and grandstand became the property of Nottingham Corporation, which appointed a committee to run the racecourse.

The 'Evening Post' commented: "Amongst the residents of the town who met in the ring, speculation was rife as to whether this will be the last of the Nottingham meetings, and whether the Race Committee will be reappointed in November."

On 26 January 1891, a special meeting of the town council was held to discuss the future of horseracing on the Forest.

The Nottingham Daily Express remarked that the hall was unusually full, such a large crowd generally turning up only for "mayor making".

The Deputy Town Clerk opened proceedings with the news that 108 memorials (petitions) had been received against allowing the racing to continue, with 11,191 signatures.

The council tried to find a role for it, and it was offered to the Robin Hood Rifles and to someone as a residence, but it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1910.

By coincidence, the Hall had been remodelled by John Carr in 1776, one year before he designed the stand for the Forest course.

"In place of the small and inconvenient club stands and rings which were seen on the Forest will be found large and commodious erections for the accommodation of the club members, Tattersall's members, and the more humble votaries of racing who pay the modest half-crown for their afternoon's enjoyment.

Here will be found that indispensable part of a racecourse, a straight mile, a mile too, which will bear comparison with the best in the country, and on the round course for flat racing, and the one for steeple-chasing, which includes a couple of natural jumps, there are such wide and sweeping bends that the inconvenience of the turns is practically reduced to a minimum."

A large number of racegoers came from London on a Great Northern Railway Company train from King's Cross to Colwick in 2 hours and 26 minutes.

The second day of the meeting took place on a hot and sunny Saturday afternoon, when the main race was the Nottinghamshire Handicap, with its prize money doubled to £1,000 since its last running on the Forest.

In 1965 the local corporation bought the 293-acre site for £500,000, and for a short time the future of the course looked in doubt.

Horses Thorpe Bay, Majestic Manannan and My Time tied for fourth place in the Lodge Farm Stud Chris And May Mullin Handicap over 5 furlongs.