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 July Festival
Newmarket
11 July 2008
Newmarket’s July meeting is one of the best-loved summer festivals in the British racing calendar, featuring top-class sport in a beautiful and timeless setting.
Unlike Newmarket’s other showpiece meetings, this three-day fixture takes place on the distinctive July course - home to all of the town's summer race meetings.
2007 sees Newmarket’s newly developed £10 million July Course in action. The redevelopment has focused on the area behind the grandstands in the Premier and Grandstand & Paddock Enclosures. The racecourse perimeter has been pushed out by up to 20 metres on to National Stud land, adding up to 4,000 square metres in additional space for a host of brand new facilities.
The highlight of the July Festival is the six-furlong Darley July Cup, which is one of the main contests in the battle for the European sprint crown. he Group 1 race has an illustrious history and attracts runners from around the globe – in recent years, Agnes World (2000) has made history as the first Japanese-trained Group 1 winner on British soil, Mozart (2001) and Stravinsky (1999) have won for Ireland, Anabaa (1996) has taken the prize back to France, and in 2003 Australian star Choisir was foiled narrowly by British champion Oasis Dream.
Other top races include a host of Group 2 events - the Cherry Hinton Stakes and July Stakes for two-year-olds, the mile-and-a-half Princess of Wales’s Stakes and the Falmouth Stakes over a mile for fillies.
Thatched-roofed buildings and tree-lined public areas, with open-air bars, make the July course a delightful summer venue. The meeting has a garden-party atmosphere and, like the other major British meetings, there is a strong sense of fashion. The first day is Ladies Day, the ideal occasion to dress in style.
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