That course occupied much of the area that is now administered by the Royal Jersey Golf Club and it was the increasing popularity of golf that brought about the demise of racing before the First World War. Racing was later resumed in St Brelade at Les Quennevais where access to the course was facilitated by the nearby Don Bridge railway station. This racecourse enjoyed a proper elevated and roofed
grandstand and, particularly in the years following the German Occupation, it drew huge crowds to its two meetings each year. An urgent need for homes led to the area being zoned for development in the late 1950s and a new course was constructed at Les Landes on the northwest corner of the Island.
Les Landes has been modified
to-point events there was a need to bring order to the burgeoning sport. In 1894 the Channel Island Racing and Hunt Club was set up, broadly along the lines of the UK’s Jockey Club, to regulate all horseracing. This organisation was subsequently recognised by other international racing authorities and it continues to set the rules of racing, and administer them, to this day.
In 1981 it became clear that a great deal of work was required to improve Les Landes racecourse. This prompted the recognition that a revived Jersey Race Club was needed and it was re-formed. Today the Club has a long-term lease on Les Landes racecourse granted by the States of Jersey and promotes nine fixtures a year between the Easter and August Bank Holidays.
and improved over the last 50 years by the addition of a watering system, the creation of a training track within the circumference of the racecourse itself and much more recently the construction of a proper weighing room and other modern facilities. The whole area is one of some sensitivity and the new building is hidden from the seaward side by a grassy hill, which serves as an apparently natural grandstand.
Racing is run by the Jersey Race Club, first formed in 1832. In its original form the Club put on fixtures at Gorey and Trinity and was joined by another body, the St Ouen’s Race Club, which organised racing in that parish.
With racing flourishing both at marked out courses and separately by the hunting community in less formal point-
In 2012 the racing was a good as ever with jockeys travelling from the UK to take part in all the meetings. Women jockeys were allowed to compete against the men long before it became accepted in the rest of Britain and the sexes still do battle in most races. Each fixture includes one hurdle race, over French-style brush obstacles, and four flat races ranging in distance from five and a half furlongs to a mile and three quarters.
Occasionally horses travel from England and France to compete and in this way it’s possible to judge the standard of the local sport, which seems to be well up to that of provincial racing in the UK.
Racing in 2013 starts with the traditional Easter Monday fixture on 1st April.
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