Southwell Course Guide
Located in Nottinghamshire, Southwell is one of the busiest racecourses in the UK as it stages racing both over jumps and on its all-weather track; the Fibresand track believed by many trainers to be the most similar in Europe to that of the American ‘Dirt’ surfaces.
It is the only all-weather track that uses fibresand, a unique surface that produces a strong kickback and therefore produces a number of course specialists.


The all-weather track at Southwell goes left-handed in a flat mile-and-a-quarter oval which has a run from the home turn of three furlongs and a spur to provide a straight five furlongs. The fibresand surface, which produces a lot more kickback than the polytrack/tapeta ones used at the other all-weather courses, lends itself far more to the course specialist.
You don’t get many hard-luck stories at Southwell, which is the perfect equivalent of a left-hand American track. Races are invariably run at a good gallop, so stamina is vital, and the kick-back is severe. Probably only about one horse in 30 will really face the kick-back but, because the runners usually space themselves out, with some going wide, you can get away with it. Nobody wants to be right down the inside turning into the straight - and the surface can ride very different on different days.


Left handed, tight. A course whose character changes dramatically depending on underfoot conditions, the emphasis being very much on speed on firmish ground yet completely the opposite on heavy ground, long-distance races under such conditions often resulting in very few finishers. The fences are of the portable variety and stiff for a minor track, a high number of casualties placing it in the upper end for fallers/unseats. The brush-type hurdles penalise less-fluent jumping more than the traditional variety.
Southwell is a superb jumping track, one of the best-maintained turf courses in Britain, and, as a general rule, it provides very decent ground for summer racing. The fences take a bit of negotiating, though, and there’s no point thinking you can pitch up there and find an easy opening, as there aren’t any. It’s not somewhere you can afford to drop off the pace, either, as, once others get away from you, you can’t get back to them. You need to be tactically astute there and it frequently pays to be handy.
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Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 1m 7f 153y Unify (Good) 27 Sep 2016 3m 55.7s 2m 4f 88y One Forty Seven (Good) 30 Jul 2020 5m 5.2s 2m 7f 209y Mr Mafia (Good) 16 Jul 2019 6m 11.2s 3m 1f 129y Sumkindofking (Good) 22 May 2019 6m 55.5s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 1m 7f 153y Mauricio (Good) 25 Oct 2018 3m 39.6s 2m 4f 62y Global Tour (Good) 22 May 2019 3m 58.4s 3m 60y Yes No Maybe So (Good) 24 Aug 2020 6m 2.53s 3m 1f 129y Finish The Story (Soft) 31 Jan 2017 7m 17.8s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 1m 7f 153y Sunrise Ruby (Good) 05 Jun 2018 3m 44.4s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 4f 214y Hareem Queen (Standard) 07 Nov 2019 56.97s 6f 16y Rock Sound (Standard) 05 Nov 2019 1m 13.49s 7f 14y Weld Al Emarat (Standard / Slow) 27 Feb 2019 1m 26.29s 1m 13y Fancy Footings (Standard) 07 Nov 2019 1m 39.08s 1m 3f 23y Lovely Approach (Standard) 03 Apr 2019 2m 22.35s 1m 4f 14y Champarisi (Standard) 12 Mar 2019 2m 34.57s 1m 6f 21y Argus (Standard) 27 Nov 2019 3m 2.87s 2m 102y Constituent (Standard) 21 Dec 2018 2m 38s 2m 2f 98y Colwood (Standard) 21 Dec 2018 4m 4.01s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D Skelton 33 14 £77,785 42.42% £9.61 Jonjo O'Neill 26 6 £26,773 23.08% -£2.75 M Keighley 14 6 £25,734 42.86% £60.08 N B King 12 4 £16,181 33.33% £27.00 Laura Morgan 14 4 £17,156 28.57% £3.50 Oliver Greenall 15 4 £14,491 26.67% £10.00 N A Twiston-Davies 9 4 £19,170 44.44% £15.75 P F Nicholls 4 4 £18,520 100% £10.00 N P Mulholland 23 3 £12,152 13.04% -£6.25 Mrs Caroline Bailey 23 3 £8,837 13.04% -£9.00 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D Skelton 93 15 £58,094 16.13% -£36.05 Olly Murphy 56 10 £43,927 17.86% -£28.61 Dr R D P Newland 27 9 £33,011 33.33% -£4.85 Jonjo O'Neill 40 6 £20,144 15% -£13.90 Ben Pauling 37 6 £20,144 16.22% £17.32 F O'Brien 30 6 £20,469 20% £2.44 A King 21 6 £28,527 28.57% £3.20 H Whittington 20 6 £23,589 30% -£2.05 Tim Vaughan 34 6 £20,534 17.65% -£2.63 O Sherwood 18 5 £19,820 27.78% -£2.92 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L F O'Brien 14 5 £12,410 35.71% £5.05 A King 8 4 £9,802 50% £8.13 N J Henderson 7 4 £9,096 57.14% £4.38 D McCain Jnr 5 3 £10,722 60% £1.87 D Skelton 13 2 £4,548 15.38% -£8.00 Jonjo O'Neill 7 2 £4,548 28.57% £9.50 B Ellison 6 2 £6,498 33.33% -£4.16 H Whittington 11 1 £2,274 9.09% -£2.00 Harry Fry 3 1 £2,274 33.33% £1.50 G P Mcpherson 3 1 £2,274 33.33% £12.00 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L M Appleby 506 72 £297,520 14.23% -£140.62 K R Burke 180 35 £151,524 19.44% £60.78 S Dixon 389 31 £123,036 7.97% -£76.58 A W Carroll 153 26 £101,082 16.99% £88.76 M Johnston 109 24 £101,764 22.02% -£20.27 R A Fahey 164 23 £92,477 14.02% -£27.75 Ivan Furtado 167 21 £64,369 12.57% -£34.22 Robyn Brisland 174 20 £62,255 11.49% £6.23 T D Easterby 94 18 £74,950 19.15% £50.00 R G Fell 121 17 £68,799 14.05% £24.05 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Harry Skelton 29 11 £56,666 37.93% -£1.89 S Bowen 28 6 £21,054 21.43% £25.30 Adam Wedge 23 5 £19,170 21.74% £5.83 Jonjo O'Neill Jr. 14 5 £24,498 35.71% £10.00 Bryony Frost 13 5 £21,770 38.46% £13.50 J J Burke 23 4 £21,704 17.39% £0.13 Sam Twiston-Davies 18 4 £24,628 22.22% £2.08 C J Todd 22 4 £20,339 18.18% £1.00 Patrick Cowley 16 4 £17,156 25% £0.50 Adrian Heskin 11 4 £15,595 36.36% £41.36 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Harry Skelton 73 14 £55,754 19.18% -£27.05 R Johnson 54 12 £51,725 22.22% -£12.41 Sam Twiston-Davies 44 12 £41,523 27.27% £0.61 B S Hughes 40 8 £29,762 20% £22.44 T Scudamore 38 8 £26,772 21.05% £21.21 G Sheehan 36 7 £26,058 19.44% -£16.78 Nico de Boinville 30 7 £25,278 23.33% -£6.97 J J Burke 42 6 £21,963 14.29% -£12.88 P J Brennan 40 6 £21,444 15% -£6.29 D A Jacob 19 6 £21,054 31.58% £14.69 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 12 4 £12,021 33.33% -£4.92 P J Brennan 7 4 £10,136 57.14% £10.25 James Bowen 5 3 £6,822 60% £4.75 Harry Skelton 9 2 £4,548 22.22% -£3.00 R Johnson 6 2 £4,548 33.33% -£1.38 Nico de Boinville 6 2 £4,548 33.33% -£1.63 Wayne Hutchinson 3 2 £4,669 66.67% £8.75 C Brace 7 1 £2,274 14.29% -£5.20 Danny Cook 4 1 £3,249 25% -£3.20 Harry Bannister 8 1 £2,274 12.5% £0.00 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B A Curtis 200 47 £168,379 23.5% -£7.47 Alistair Rawlinson 195 30 £140,982 15.38% -£35.46 L Morris 370 27 £109,564 7.3% -£219.03 K T O'Neill 248 25 £95,839 10.08% -£14.38 Jason Hart 140 22 £89,799 15.71% -£34.93 C Lee 97 19 £73,784 19.59% £7.00 Hollie Doyle 106 17 £73,686 16.04% £18.73 A Mullen 210 16 £50,978 7.62% -£80.13 Theodore Ladd 158 16 £60,388 10.13% -£0.79 Lewis Edmunds 136 16 £54,603 11.76% -£56.88
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Rolleston
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Nottinghamshire
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