Cartmel Course Guide
Cartmel hosts racing throughout the summer months with the majority of its meetings taking place over bank holiday weekends. The showpiece race of the season is the three mile and six furlong Grand Veterans’ Chase, which is staged on the second May Bank Holiday each year.
Situated in the south of the Lake District, Cartmel is unashamedly a holiday track and the relaxed atmosphere adds to its character. As a consequence the course remains extremely popular with racegoers regularly attracting crowds in excess of 10,000 spectators.
Advance Going
Left handed, tight. Only six fences to a circuit places little emphasis on jumping, though they are fairly stiff for a minor course and result in a disproportionate number of unseats to falls, particularly over the last few fences which come in quick succession as the field are quickening. Run-in of half a mile from the last fence is longest in the country and, unsurprisingly, the lead changes hands from the last more than would normally be expected, be it due to idling or tiring after being sent for home too soon.
Cartmel is not a place you should be going to if you don’t like the smell of barbecues! It’s amazing how many times on the way round you get a flash of something cooking in your nostrils and that, above all else, is my defining memory of riding there. Being as it’s such a tight track, you need a horse that travels, because they go very quick, and if your mount is under pressure early at Cartmel, it can be a long, long way round. That said, the obstacles - both the hurdles and fences - are very fair.
View from the saddle: Mick Fitzgerald
Results
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Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m 1f 61y Tonto's Spirit (Good) 31 May 2021 4m 8.5s 2m 5f 34y Hereditary Rule (Good) 27 Aug 2022 5m 6.5s 3m 1f 107y Olivers Travels (Good) 25 Aug 2025 6m 19.86s 3m 5f 80y Dawson City (Good) 31 May 2021 7m 29.3s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m 1f 46y Ashington (Good) 20 Jul 2024 3m 59.11s 2m 6f 31y One Fine Man (Good) 29 May 2021 5m 15.1s 3m 1f 83y Wbee (Good) 28 May 2022 6m 6.12s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L James Moffatt 54 9 £43K 16.67% -£9.26 B Haslam 38 7 £57K 18.42% -£9.05 S England 28 7 £39K 25% -£5.88 Mrs Dianne Sayer 23 6 £65K 26.09% -£3.25 Mickey Bowen 24 4 £28K 16.67% -£16.34 P Bowen 19 3 £20K 15.79% -£3.50 G Bewley 21 3 £11K 14.29% -£9.75 W Greatrex 7 3 £14K 42.86% £5.42 J W Mullins 7 3 £28K 42.86% £8.50 O Greenall & J Guerriero 5 3 £16K 60% £33.50 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L James Moffatt 113 12 £52K 10.62% -£50.17 B Haslam 47 9 £55K 19.15% £2.83 R Menzies 42 6 £44K 14.29% -£12.94 Lizzie Quinlan 49 6 £31K 12.24% -£20.09 C Collins 13 4 £69K 30.77% £5.50 J C McConnell 11 4 £17K 36.36% -£2.10 J Candlish 10 4 £15K 40% £22.50 D McCain Jnr 28 3 £18K 10.71% -£0.13 M F Harris 11 3 £27K 27.27% £3.50 S England 25 2 £8K 8% -£18.80 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L S Bowen 39 10 £70K 25.64% -£0.22 R P McLernon 35 7 £57K 20% -£5.05 Jonathan England 25 7 £39K 28% -£0.88 Danny McMenamin 24 6 £60K 25% £1.91 Sean Quinlan 37 5 £29K 13.51% -£12.25 Henry Brooke 19 4 £21K 21.05% -£3.00 Charlotte Jones 37 3 £15K 8.11% -£27.17 Jonathon Bewley 20 3 £11K 15% -£8.75 James Bowen 15 2 £9K 13.33% -£7.33 M G Nolan 6 2 £20K 33.33% £0.50 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L R P McLernon 43 9 £75K 20.93% £16.50 Sean Quinlan 46 8 £38K 17.39% -£1.09 B S Hughes 49 7 £34K 14.29% -£0.38 Charlotte Jones 56 7 £26K 12.5% -£32.67 S Bowen 37 5 £19K 13.51% -£23.89 Danny McMenamin 34 3 £16K 8.82% -£18.50 Nathan Moscrop 22 2 £9K 9.09% -£7.67 James Bowen 12 2 £9K 16.67% -£6.63 Ross Chapman 12 2 £8K 16.67% -£8.28 Bradley Harris 9 2 £8K 22.22% £2.50
Address & Contact
Cartmel Racecourse
Cartmel
Grange-over-Sands
Cumbria
LA11 6QF
01539 536340
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