Bath Course Guide

Located high up on Lansdown Hill above the city, at 780 feet above sea level, Bath is the highest Flat racecourse in the UK. The track has hosted racing for over almost 300 years and is famous for its kidney-shaped circuit which means runners are nearly always on the turn.

The feature race of the year is the Listed Lansdown Fillies Stakes run in April over five furlongs for fillies and mares aged three and older. The race has produced some very smart winners, including Cassandra Go, who won the race as a four-year-old in 2000 before going on to be a very smart sprinter, registering wins in the Temple and King’s Stand Stakes, whilst Kind, third in the 2005 renewal, went on to become the dam of the great Frankel.

Flat Racing

Left handed, galloping. The round course is an elongated oval track, just over twelve furlongs in extent, with a run-in of nearly half a mile, those that commit for home early in the straight often proving vulnerable in the closing stages, this due to the steady climb to the finish. The camera angle in the straight makes it one of the trickiest course in the country for in-running bettors as it's head-on from two furlongs out to inside the last. The highest course in the country, with no watering, so the ground can get very firm during a dry spell.

Bath races are usually run at a true gallop and, sometimes, horses start getting a bit too competitive a long way out. The sharp home turn makes it almost a specialist’s track and you see plenty of runners struggling around it. But, if you’re on one that rails and is fleet of foot, that bend can be a good point to grab an advantage, by turning the taps on while others are having trouble. The finish is quite stiff, so you need to get home, but you would love to be on a front-runner that handles the ups and downs.

View from the saddle: Jason Weaver

Bath Top Times
Last 5 years

Flat

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
5f 10y	Electric Storm (Good to Firm)	20 Apr 2025	58.3s
5f 160y	Clarendon House (Firm)	21 Jul 2021	1m 7.92s
1m	Emerging (Good to Firm)	30 Jun 2021	1m 37.24s
1m 2f 37y	Her Way (Good to Firm)	30 Jun 2021	2m 7.17s
1m 4f	Three Priests (Firm-Good to Firm in places)	22 Jun 2022	2m 26.2s
1m 5f	Caramelised (Firm-Good to Firm in places)	22 Jun 2022	2m 46.11s
1m 6f	Dreams Adozen (Good to Firm)	06 Sep 2023	2m 59.98s
2m 1f 24y	Tazaman (Good to Firm)	14 Jun 2025	3m 49.49s

Bath Top Trainers
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Flat

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
A W Carroll	164	27	52	£113,019	16.46%	-£15.70
A Wintle	137	14	40	£57,959	10.22%	-£38.17
G Harris	149	12	43	£41,973	8.05%	-£58.30
J S Moore	121	11	40	£37,645	9.09%	-£31.87
R Hannon	71	11	30	£70,522	15.49%	-£14.19
G Boughey	49	11	17	£58,852	22.45%	-£15.73
C G Cox	53	10	20	£44,296	18.87%	£1.78
R Harris	85	9	25	£39,484	10.59%	-£20.30
J G Portman	73	9	22	£44,252	12.33%	£8.13
J Tickle	61	9	16	£31,155	14.75%	-£22.29

Bath Top Jockeys
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Flat

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Billy Loughnane	115	18	38	£97,015	15.65%	-£43.88
Finley Marsh	136	17	42	£73,086	12.5%	£6.50
K T O'Neill	119	15	36	£102,130	12.61%	£54.49
David Probert	91	14	22	£67,511	15.38%	£43.93
Taylor Fisher	94	13	37	£55,095	13.83%	-£27.71
Rob Hornby	129	12	45	£56,625	9.3%	-£37.14
Jack Doughty	65	10	21	£36,374	15.38%	-£22.80
P Cosgrave	25	10	4	£48,031	40%	£50.48
Charles Bishop	106	9	34	£36,141	8.49%	-£68.12
T E Whelan	97	9	34	£43,902	9.28%	-£36.60