The Turf
What will be a landmark moment for British racing, the turf at Chelmsford City Racecourse continues to be successfully developed and we are excited to hopefully unveil our turf track from 2022.
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The Turf Track
Reimagining turf racing in Britain
In December 2017, Chelmsford City Racecourse broke ground on its new turf racecourse. A long held ambition of the racecourse, the vision was to establish the first turf racing under floodlights in the UK and just the second in Europe.
Inspired by the desire to stage Breeders Cup style meetings in the UK, Chelmsford City Racecourse has invested more than £1.5m into this project, a testament to its unwavering commitment to producing the best racing and investing in British racing.
The development of the turf course has been a huge engineering project requiring nearly 30,000 tonnes of material including topsoil and sand forming multiple base layers. Processes such as extensive de-compacting, de-stoning, soil conditioning operation and verti-draining as well as the use of high quality soil and seed has led to excellent growth and root depth producing one of the finest surfaces in Europe.
The racecourse has also invested substantially in profiling the land adjacent to the new turf which is scheduled to come into fruition in the spring of 2022.
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