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Sandown Park Racecourse

Sandown Park Racecourse –

Send Your Heart Racing!

Watch the finest over fences and the fastest on the flat

Sandown Park offers a racing experience unlike any other racecourse. The stunning location within the park, together with the course’s famous uphill finish and magnificent views, combine to create a theatrical atmosphere full of excitement and nail-biting close finishes. With a unique ambience that comes from the closeness you feel to the racing, you are able to see every single minute of the action.

Betfred Gold Cup – 27th & 28th April
You are invited to a unique event in the racing calendar – the final outing for the top jumpers, and a glittering start to the fat season.

The famous Betfred Gold Cup meeting is your chance to watch the cream of the jump season’s horses and their riders, as well as the up coming stars of the 2007 flat season. The Gold Cup is always a close - run thing - and close is what Sandown Park is all about. With two pre-race parade areas and our unique Horsewalk, only the jockeys get closer to the horses than you do.

The many bars and restaurants serve everything from Guinness to champagne, tasty snacks to fine cuisine. And on Saturday, there’s live music from the incredible Bootleg Beatles, who’ve played more gigs than the real ones.

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Surrey County Show

Surrey County Show is the largest one day agricultural show in the UK attracting around 40,000 visitors. It takes place annually on the late May Bank Holiday Monday on Stoke Park, Guildford, bringing the best of the countryside right to the heart of the town.

The Show is a fantastic day out for the whole family, combining entertainment and fun with the opportunity to see first hand the many aspects of country life and farming. There is always a warm welcome for children, and scooters are available for people with mobility problems, so no-one in the family need be left out.

The centre of excitement is the Main Arena, where stunt-riders give thrilling displays of derring do, international showjumpers battle it out and the cream of our pedigree cattle and sheep show off their championship rosettes in the great parade. Glittering marching bands provide a stirring spectacle.

Head for the Nightingale Road end of the showground for our Livestock arenas and marquees. Here you can see the great diversity of cattle and sheep breeds from hardy natives to big continentals. They are the farmers’ pride and joy, immaculately turned out for the show ring. You can meet the farmers too and even learn to milk a cow.

The East side of the showground has the new Countryside Arena where you can watch displays of working and gun dogs and woodland crafts.

Surrey is a county of horseriders and horse and pony showing classes are traditionally a popular feature of the show. Their dedicated showing rings are next to the main arena.

The London Road side of the showground is home to the Companion Dog Show and the Goat, Poultry and Bee marquees.

Surrey County Show is a Shoppers’ Paradise with 40 acres set aside each year for shopping malls, packed with 350 trade stands selling everything from tractors to wellieboots, sheepskins to oriental spices, fashion clothes to saddlery and garden furniture. There are two and a half miles of tents and marquees; 71 judges scrutinising everything from 1.5 tonne bulls to hens’ eggs, handknitted jumper displays and show horses.

The traditional end to the day is the mass launch of hot air balloons – a spectacular finish.

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