🏇 They’re under starters orders at Kempton Park Racecourse for their first National Hunt fixture of the year and the ever-popular Lanzarote Hurdle Day.
NEWSFLASH: The 2025 Lanzarote Hurdle Day is a wrap. Racing abandoned due to frozen ground. Stay tuned here for news of the 2026 meeting. And check out our HORSE RACING section here for more events coming up in or around London.
Update from Kempton Park Racecourse: 11am, Friday 10 January.
“Racing on Saturday 11 January has been abandoned due to frozen ground. General Admission tickets bookers will be automatically refunded in next 10 working days.”
2025 RACEDAY PREVIEW
With the 2024/2025 jumps season in full flow all roads this lead to Kempton Park this afternoon. The historic racecourse in Surrey, just 16 miles from central London, hosts a seven-race card. The opening race on Lanzarote Hurdle Day on Saturday 11 January is due off at 12.20pm.
The first big race of the day is the Coral Silviniaco Conti Steeple Chase at 2.05pm. A Grade 2 race over fences with £80,000 in prize money at stake. Last year Banbridge won for trainer Joseph O’Brien, seeing off Pic D’Orhy who was unable to repeat his success in 2023.
The feature race of the day is at 2.40pm. The listed Coral Lanzarote Handicap Hurdle raced over two miles and five furlongs is open to horse aged four years and older and with a £100,000 prize pot. The race is named after the racehorse Lanzarote who won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival in 1974. It took place for the first time in 1978. Last year Jay Jay Reilly, ridden by Tristan Durrell, was a surprise 33/1 winner of the race. The horse made it a second consecutive win in the race for trainer Dan Skelton who took the 2023 spoils with West Balboa.
LANZAROTE HURDLE DAY – TICKETS, TIMINGS & TRAVEL
🎟️ Tickets for the Lanzarote Hurdle Day are available via the ‘Get Tickets’ link.
🗝️ Gates open: 10.30am.
🏇 First race: 12.20pm.
🏇 Last race: 3.50pm.
🚊🚗 Travel tips: Kempton Park Racecourse is 16 miles from the city and 6 miles from Heathrow Airport. It is easily accessible by both rail and car. Kempton Park station is a 2-minute walk from the North Entrance and a 45 minute train journey from London Waterloo. Free parking in available in the centre of the course, accessible via Gate 6 on the A308 (Staines Road East). There is a charge of £5 per vehicle for parking in the main car park.
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