Exeter Racecourse

Exeter
Location	Exeter, Devon
Owned by	Jockey Club Racecourses
Screened on	Racing UK
Course type	National Hunt
Notable races	Haldon Gold Cup
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Exeter Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located near the city of Exeter, Devon, England. Locally it is known as Haldon racecourse because of its location on top of the Haldon Hills. Until the early 1990s it was officially known as Devon and Exeter.

On 1 November 2005 the famous racehorse Best Mate died here of a suspected heart attack whilst competing in the William Hill Haldon Gold Cup.

Notable races

Month	DOW	Race Name	Type	Grade	Distance	Age/Sex
1 !November	Tuesday	Haldon Gold Cup	Chase	Grade 2	3520 !2m 1f 110y	4yo +

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Coordinates: 50°38′28″N 3°33′29″W / 50.64111°N 3.55806°W / 50.64111; -3.55806

Horseracing in Great Britain

Venues

National Hunt	Aintree Bangor-on-Dee Cartmel Cheltenham Exeter Fakenham Fontwell Park Hexham Huntingdon Kelso Ludlow Market Rasen Newton Abbot Perth Plumpton Sedgefield Stratford-on-Avon Taunton Towcester Uttoxeter Warwick Wincanton Worcester

Flat	Bath Beverley Brighton Chelmsford City Chester Epsom Downs Goodwood Great Yarmouth Hamilton Park Newmarket Nottingham Pontefract Redcar Ripon Salisbury Thirsk Windsor Wolverhampton York

Mixed	Ascot Ayr Carlisle Catterick Bridge Chepstow Doncaster Ffos Las Haydock Park Kempton Park Leicester Lingfield Park Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Sandown Park Southwell Wetherby

Former	Folkestone (Temporarily shut from end 2012) Hereford (Closed end 2012, due to reopen 2016)

Named races

Regulation

British Horseracing Authority

Other bodies

Course owners

Arena Racing Company (15) (Merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing by Reuben Brothers)
Jockey Club Racecourses (14)

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