This Bank Holiday weekend see the start of the Cartmel Horse racing events, This national Hunt steeple course as been holding steeple chasing events since 1856 and is extremely popular on the horse racing calender. The event starts on Bank Holiday Monday and the first race being held at 2pm.



The course is a sharp and narrow left handed oval. The difference from other courses is our home straight which unusually veers off and dissects the main oval. The main circuit measures just over one mile and one furlong and what is also unique to Cartmel is that the run-in (the distance from the last fence to the finish line) is known as the longest in the country at just over 4 furlongs.



The steeplechase course has 6 fences; these include an open ditch and a water jump. The hurdles course has four obstacles. However, as the course is narrow around the last hurdle, it is removed during steeplechase races, and then rebuilt for hurdle events.