Summer Holidays

The tourist hotspots of Dawlish, Teignmouth and Torquay are little more than a staying chase distance from the summer jumps track. 

There can’t be many courses that can match Newton Abbot’s ice cream sales as holiday makers flock to the friendly independent course. The relaxed atmosphere fits in perfectly with its location and there is no better place to be when the summer sun has its hat on in deepest Devon. 

Being the most southern racecourse in the UK helps in that regard and the climate was one of the driving forces to switch the course to summer racing from its more traditional jumps season fixture list. The decision came after its lucrative Boxing Day had been abandoned for six successive years and the move has been a great success. It has seen Newton Abbot become one of the premier summer jumps tracks and it often attracts the top jockeys and trainers to the course.

The track now holds meetings from March through to October with its Easter Saturday card proving especially popular. 

Many visitors choose to travel by train as the course is just a 15‐minute stroll from the station. The journey from Exeter along the coastal line is among one of the most beautiful stretches of railway in the country.