Bath Races | Racecourse Guide, Help & Tips

Bath racecourse’s claim to fame is that at 780 feet (238 m) above sea level, it is Britain's highest Flat racecourse, although National Hunt courses Hexham and Exeter are higher. The first major race meeting at Bath racecourse was held in 1811, and originally there was just one meeting a year at the course, lasting for two days, but gradually over the years, the number of meetings increased to its present level. In 1953, Bath racecourse was the site of a criminal plot surrounding the Spa selling plate. Having two horses that looked almost identical, the gang substituted a good horse for a poor one. They bet heavily on the substituted horse and damaged the power supply to the racecourse, which prevented the bookmakers from changing the odds which remained at 10-1. The horse won the race and the gang would have profited highly had not racing officials become suspicious and called in Scotland Yard. Bath’s most notable races are the Lansdown Fillies’ Stakes in April and the Beckford Stakes in October.

Trainer	Runs	Wins	W%	Places	P%
Malcolm Saunders	189	33	17	49	26
Clive Cox	145	31	21	46	32
Mick Channon	256	30	12	79	31
Richard Hannon	147	26	18	54	37
Andrew Balding	127	20	16	39	31
Ronald Harris	258	20	8	52	20
Richard Hannon Snr	73	19	26	16	22
Charles Hills	93	19	20	36	39
David Evans	191	19	10	50	26
Roger Charlton	64	18	28	22	34
Sir Mark Prescott Bt	50	18	36	18	36
Tony Carroll	178	18	10	33	19
Rod Millman	109	17	16	26	24
Brian Meehan	63	17	27	15	24
Mark Johnston	81	15	19	28	35
Jo Hughes	121	14	12	32	26
Ron Hodges	84	14	17	18	21
William Haggas	41	13	32	13	32
William Muir	104	12	12	30	29
Marcus Tregoning	48	12	25	15	31
Robert Cowell	42	10	24	9	21
George Baker	69	10	14	23	33
Tony Newcombe	76	10	13	11	14
Ed de Giles	50	10	20	14	28
Brendan Powell	61	9	15	17	28
Sylvester Kirk	89	9	10	30	34
Amanda Perrett	62	9	15	14	23
Tom Dascombe	45	9	20	10	22
John Flint	55	9	16	11	20
Milton Bradley	161	8	5	27	17
Hughie Morrison	42	8	19	10	24
Eve Johnson Houghton	100	8	8	25	25
Henry Candy	59	8	14	13	22
Jeremy Gask	69	8	12	8	12
Bernard Llewellyn	81	7	9	22	27
J. S. Moore	78	7	9	11	14
Ralph Beckett	39	7	18	15	38
Roger Varian	26	7	27	9	35
Stuart Kittow	48	6	13	12	25
Gary Moore	50	6	12	6	12
Jamie Osborne	85	6	7	26	31
Saeed bin Suroor	12	6	50	5	42
Jonathan Portman	64	6	9	13	20
Steph Hollinshead	33	6	18	5	15
Michael Attwater	32	6	19	7	22
Jonathan Geake	35	6	17	8	23
Paul Cole	51	6	12	12	24
Sir Michael Stoute	25	5	20	10	40
Denis Coakley	47	5	11	18	38
David Lanigan	16	5	31	4	25

Statistics for the last 5 seasons.

Jockey	Runs	Wins	W%	Places	P%
Luke Morris	264	35	13	68	26
Adam Kirby	112	26	23	29	26
Steve Drowne	186	26	14	46	25
Richard Hughes	89	24	27	24	27
George Baker	93	24	26	20	22
Dane O'Neill	130	22	17	28	22
Silvestre De Sousa	105	19	18	28	27
David Probert	146	19	13	33	23
Pat Dobbs	105	19	18	24	23
Martin Dwyer	140	18	13	33	24
Cathy Gannon	152	18	12	38	25
Jimmy Fortune	75	16	21	23	31
Liam Keniry	175	16	9	45	26
Sean Levey	103	15	15	33	32
Pat Cosgrave	101	15	15	28	28
Shane Kelly	134	14	10	29	22
Tom Marquand	69	13	19	17	25
Josephine Gordon	81	13	16	22	27
William Twiston-Davies	116	12	10	32	28
Richard Kingscote	89	12	13	25	28
Liam Jones	79	11	14	19	24
Martin Harley	75	11	15	22	29
Daniel Muscutt	76	11	14	20	26
Michael J. M. Murphy	52	11	21	15	29
Oisin Murphy	95	11	12	32	34
David Egan	43	10	23	12	28
Charles Bishop	93	10	11	19	20
John Fahy	120	10	8	35	29
Fran Berry	63	10	16	14	22
Robert Winston	62	10	16	14	23
Chris Catlin	78	10	13	16	21
Sam Hitchcott	120	9	8	26	22
Fergus Sweeney	138	9	7	36	26
James Doyle	50	9	18	13	26
Ryan Tate	66	9	14	24	36
Phillip Prince	52	8	15	15	29
George Wood	52	8	15	15	29
Royston Ffrench	61	8	13	12	20
Graham Lee	27	8	30	4	15
Tom McLaughlin	62	7	11	19	31
Jamie Spencer	26	7	27	8	31
Martin Lane	69	7	10	15	22
Kieran O'Neill	83	7	8	15	18
William Carson	105	7	7	27	26
Jim Crowley	60	7	12	18	30
Cam Hardie	73	7	10	29	40
Eoin Walsh	46	7	15	4	9
Kieran Shoemark	45	7	16	16	36
Jack Duern	31	7	23	10	32
Hector Crouch	35	6	17	5	14