Tour of Newmarket Heath: Part One

In part one of a two-video series, Ross Birkett takes us on a tour of Newmarket Heath focusing on the gallops used by trainers based on Racecourse side of town.

Our guide, Birkett, has the advantage of having been born and bred in Newmarket allowing him the opportunity to ride in Newmarket's Racecourse side since he was 13 years old. Over the course of his riding career he has learned not only the layout of the Newmarket Heath and all of its gallops, but also the history of landmarks and tracks.

Here we have an in-depth tour of the grass gallops: the Flat Gallop, Summer Gallop, Peat Moss, and the Water Gallop. Birkett explains the terrain and use of each gallops and how trainers choose which gallop to run their horses.

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~ P A T T Y W O L F E M E D I A G R O U P ~

[leighmerlin]

Newmarket is such an amazing place. I've ridden there many times. Its mine and my horses favourite place.

[rory]

This racetrack destroyed the last home of the sand lizard in the east of England.

[nixmoretta]

Ok, so paint the discs blue on two separate gallops, when you’re supposed to be differentiating between them, yes, of course, makes perfect sense! Not!

[nixmoretta]

Shame the horses cannot graze here, and exist as nature intended. Oh no, hang on, they are purely bred to race for man’s gain.