Sedgefield Racecourse

It is owned by Arena Racing Company and located close to the town of Sedgefield, County Durham.

When racing resumed the number of meetings soon increased to three, including a lucrative Bank Holiday fixture.

After Scotto's death in 1996 the course’s future was uncertain, though a state-of-the-art weighing room complex was constructed in 1998, with better facilities for jockeys, officials and medical staff.

Since then they have invested around £600,000 on the racecourse, notably on a refurbished parade ring / winners enclosure, upgraded bars and eating areas and improvements to the course's drainage system.

For many years the run from the last fence, an open ditch, to the winning post was 525 yards, even longer than the run-in on the Grand National course.

In 1994 it was replaced by an ordinary plain fence, and it is now jumped on the final circuit, making a run-in of conventional length.