Newcastle Horse Racing Results

Located at Gosforth Park to the north of the city, Newcastle Racecourse has staged racing since 1882 and hosts major races both on the flat and over jumps. Over the autumn and winter of 2015/16 the course underwent an £11m redevelopment which saw a new all-weather surface replace the Flat turf track.

The highlight of Newcastle’s year is the Northumberland Plate meeting in June, a three-day fixture that also includes the Gosforth Park Cup and the Chipchase Stakes. Those races are both valuable sprints while the ‘Plate’ – also known as the Pitmens’ Derby – is a two-mile handicap and often billed as a Northern Hemisphere Melbourne Cup.

Over jumps Newcastle stages a Grade 1 contest in the shape of the Fighting Fifth Hurdle – a race which, along with the Christmas and Champion Hurdles forms a ‘Triple Crown’ of top two-mile hurdle races in the UK. Certainly, past winners of the Fighting Fifth are a who’s who of hurdling champions including Comedy Of Errors, Night Nurse, Sea Pigeon, Kribensis, Beech Road, Punjabi and Buveur D'Air plus the aforementioned Overturn, who figures on the roll of honour for both of Gosforth Park’s famous races having won the ‘Plate’ in 2010 and the ‘Fighting Fifth’ the following year.