PENSHURST
| General Location | Penshurst racecourse is located about 4 miles to the north and 4 miles to the west of Tunbridge Wells in Kent. |
| Location Map
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 The back part of this map courtesy of Ordnance Survey and their terms as per their www.get-a-map.co.uk site |
| Course Layout |
Link to multimap aerial view of the course In the aerial wiew the bottom half of the course as shown in the above course map goes around the outside of the large brown field just to the left of middle. |
| Course Picture |
Photto is taken from the outside of the course, about level with the paddock' and is down towards the first fence. |
| Notes | A race at Penshurst involves just under two and a half circuits of what
is nearly a rectangular track. A kink to the left after the start and the
first two fences. A swing round to the right and then, just before a gentle
turn to the left comes the third. Another hundred yards and then the runners turn into the finishing straight with one more fence to be jumped there before passing the line The ground is still going gently uphill and there is a quite a long run, past the paddock and horse boxes, before the next two jumps which again come closely together. The runners then swing downhill back towards the start. There is one fence down the hill which the runners tend to take at considerable pace although it causes no more fallers than any other fence on the track. The runners then swing left handed past the start area. Since the runners are travelling at speed at this point riders have been known to have difficulties on horses with steering problems here. |
