Pubs by Racecourse

'Go Racing. Stay in a Pub'.

Search for your ideal 'Pub or Inn' - by clicking your selected course on the drop down menu above.

Our selection of hostelries provide real ale and fine wines to accompany quality meals with an overnight stay that is within easy reach of your chosen track.

For Newbury Picture of Dundas Arms accomodation Dundas Arms Kintbury and Picture of Crown & Garter accomodation Crown & Garter Inkpen. 

We list the friendliest accommodation in the area where you can enjoy the ambience unique to the British Pub.

Arrive the night before and wake-up fresh on fixture day, having slept in a comfortable bed, knowing that there is a good breakfast and your favourite newspaper awaiting you. Have a leisurely morning studying 'the form' and maybe an early lunch and a drink with friends, before making the short journey to the track.

At the end of an enjoyable day's racing, an exhilarating but nonetheless exhausting experience, whether financially successful or otherwise, why join the crush for the long journey home? 

In your own good time return to your chosen hostelry for a well earned drink with the locals and a substantial supper before tumbling into bed.

Next morning awaken refreshed and ready for your return journey or, stamina permitting, go on to another meeting.

An updated fixture list and travelling information appears on each of the racecourse pages from which you choose your hostelry.

The full Racing Calendar is available on the BHA website: www.britishhorseracing.com.

Bon Voyage, Bonne Chance et Bonne Chasse!

Newbury.  Saturday 11th. February.
Betfair Super Saturday.
Featuring the Betfair Denman Chase and the Betfair Hurdle, Europe's richest handicap hurdle race.

Past winners include Denman, Master Minded and Diamond Harry.
Gates Open - 10.45 am.
First Race - 1.20 pm.  Last Race - 4.40 pm.
This fixture supports Walking With The Wounded. Meet the Everest 2012 team and find out about their next expedition.
Premier Enclosure £30.00.
Grandstand Enclosure £20.00.

The Cheltenham Festival - Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th March 2012.
Tuesday is Champion Day, Wednesday is Ladies Day, Thursday will be St Patrick's Day, and on Friday the meeting's showpiece the Gold Cup when it is likely we will see the final run of Kauto Star's stellar career. Book now and you could save up to £13 against the on the day price.
For special treatment at The Festival reserve one of the dining packages.  You can entertain in the Gold Cup or Horseshoe Pavilion Restaurants and enjoy a fully inclusive package or choose a sitting to suit you for lunch in the Moscow Flyer Restaurant. Prices start from just £89 + VAT per person. 
To book, either go online or call the dining and hospitality team on 01242 537653 for more information or to reserve your table.

 

Connections celebrate Kauto Star's fifth win of the William Hill King George VI Gold Cup at Kempton Park on Boxing Day.

'Last Chance Saloon'.  

Full location details will be found on the Racecourse Page.  

‘Go Racing.  Stay in a pub.’

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The Great Outdoors.

We at Rumble Inns, as owners of www.racingaway.com, invite all to;

Enjoy the unique ambience of these great British institutions.

However that need not be the end of the story.

You’ll discover within our list of Pubs & Inns many additional outdoor activities in which you can indulge and challenge yourself.

Having the UK’s adventure playground on their doorsteps opportunities arise to;

Go walking,cycling,swimming,climbing,absailing,canoeing,surfing,sailing,rafting,rowing,touring,trekking,

eventing, point-to-pointing, and riding out to name just a few.

Stretch the limbs and ‘clear the cobwebs’.

Our listed Pubs are the Hub to the Great Outdoors as well as their local community, whom you will meet and join when you stay.

‘Rumble’ the friendliest Pubs & inns on www.racingaway.com.

See you there – mine’s a pint!

Tom the Trace.

 

 

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Take a day or two out in the countryside and go racing.

Sixty courses to choose from for the unique horseracing experience.

Stay overnight in a traditional British Pub.

Savour the ambience.

Drink real ale and fine wine to accompany delicious food.

Tumble into a comfortabe bed with en-suite facilities.

Tell us when you will be here?

We will suggest an itinerary with estimated cost.

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From the Home front page and through the 60 subsequent pages for each of the UK’s racecourses.

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                                                                                             Five Rings Stud&Livery

                                                                                             Knob’sHill

                                                                                             Marshgate Lane

                                                                                             HackneyWick.

 

Wednesday 23rd February 2011.

 

Dear Claudia,

 

Once again Cheltenham beckons us to indulge in the Festival Pursuits, being only three weeks away. I am desperately trying to concentrate on the forthcoming abundance of confrontations there, with old rivalries being renewed alongside new contenders challenging, whilst all around me there are scenes of frantic activity, which I am assured are on schedule and within budget. ‘Proof of the pudding will be in the eating’

 

The old livery yard, which once shone like a pinnacle amongst the scary scrapyards of this part of east London, is now in the middle of the largest building site in Europe and gradually being overshadowed by the Olympic Stadium, Velodrome, Aquatics Centre etc.etc.

I was escorted around the whole site last week, which is as big as Hyde Park and I have to admit it is all looking very splendid with landscaped gardens alongside the River Lea. A huge improvement on what used line the banks of this famous old river at this juncture.

 

Vast numbers of visitors are expected next year for the ‘Games’ and EC1  plan, through our website, to encourage them all to take an excursion out into the countryside to visit one or two of our racecourses and to sample the ambience of our ‘Pubs and Inns’ by recuperating in the bars and bedrooms. A pleasure you and I have enjoyed on many occasions in the past and God willing may it long continue.  

 

A large percentage of the visitors will be attending events all over London and indeed the rest of the country, with the likes of sailing in Weymouth, rowing in Eton, canoeing in Broxbourne, football in stadiums dotted all over the place. I expect you and one or two of your young filly acquaintances will be camping out in Greenwich Park, just across The Thames from here, for the equestrian events.

 

I look forward to being introduced to some sprightly new bloods. Not that I will ever tire of the delights of your singular company.

Looking forward to doing just that at Cheltenham in mid March.

You will be able to pick me out in the crowd. I’ll be the one with a piece of shamrock in my lapel or hatband.

 

Yours unfalteringly Tom.

 

 

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                                                                                                      Five Rings Stud&Livery

                                                                                                                                Knob’s Hill

                                                                                                      Marshgate Lane

                                                                                                      Hackney Wick

Thursday 28th. January 2010.

Dear Claudia,

Looking forward to our annual rendezvous and thought I'd practice my verse in readiness for St. Valentine!

 

'Snow thawed Hallow'd turf revealed

Pounding hooves once more are heard

Spring set to release Grass agitates to rise

Ears prick Napes bristle

Anticipating the coming battle

In pursuit of the elusive prize

Heads turn All roads perceived to lead

Towards Cheltenham

Obstacles to conquer Challengers to rebuff

Prayers offered that man and mount remain aloft

Victors regaled whilst challengers provide the substance.'

Remember to check on our 'Last ChanceSaloon' section in the build up to the Cheltenham Festival, for your usual last minute accommodation booking and for me to be able to find you!

I can't wait for it all to start.

Yours trembling Tom.

 

 

                                                                                                                                

 
                                                                                                                       

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                                                                                                                          Five Rings Stud & Livery
                                                                                                                          Knob’s Hill
                                                                                                                          Marshgate Lane
                                                                                                                          Hackney Wick.
Thursday 4th. June 2009.
Dear Wilfred,
Remember the good time we had when we met up at Kevin’s pub, ‘The Racehorses Hotel’ in Kettlewell. The early morning trip next day over Whernside to Middleham, to visit the gallops and Kingsley House. After which we ‘mosed on down’ to the races at Thirsk, where we developed an incredible thirst and conjectured that maybe the town’s spelling was incorrect or it was a Yorkshire joke, requiring a languid pub crawl through Nidderdale to Pateley Bridge to return Kettlewell. Halcyon days!
It is likely that my ancestors came from Kettlewell and that the pub was original called Tracehorses Hotel. These trusty and valiant souls assisted there counterparts between the shafts by means of a trace lead, to pull the locally mined loads of lead up the hills out of the valley. Some bright spark, probably a London businessman, acquired the pub and thought the capital ‘T’ was the Yorkshire definite article, so dropped it.
Well to cut along story short EC1 are planning to take me in the old charabanc back up to the area over a more prolonged period, which could be labelled a holiday, to spend time in the Dales and the Pubs, throughout the course of the Yorkshire Festival with the intention of visiting as many, if not all, the tracks involved in staging a meeting. We are to kick off at Ripon on 18th July and follow up with Redcar, Beverley, Catterick, Doncaster, Thirsk (hic), York, and finish on the ninth day at Pontefract. There is one blank day on the 21st.July when The Northern Racing College has an Open Day. Admission is Free to see where the ‘burdens’ learn their trade in persuading our thoroughbred brethren to compete with one another.
Just as well they do not know the truth otherwise there would be no more outings 'pour moi'.                                                       
Looks like an exhausting itinerary but what a superb way to spend a couple of weeks. We will just have to temper our behaviour patterns and put our feet up when necessary. It will certainly provide you and I with plenty of time to ‘chew the cud’ and sink a few pints my old pal. ‘Ebagum’ I hear you say. Did you know that is back slang for the incumbent in Rhodesia, oops sorry Zimbabwe, silly old colonialist.  Originally a ‘Private Eye’ joke?
Until the end of next month then my old friend. Don’t put in too many rehearsal nights meanwhile.
Pip. Pip. Tom

               

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                                                                                                                                    FIve Rings Stud & Livery,

                                                                                                                                    Knob's Hill,

                                                                                                                                    Marshgate Lane,

                                                                                                                                     Hackney Wick.

Wednesday 8th.April 2009

 

Dear Padraig,

I trust you all arrived back safely in the Emerald Isle after our Grand Tour of Western England. What a fantastic four weeks we had together. I am now on the recovery ward for split sides from all the laughter and booze we had to endure, before starting all over again in Punchestown at the end of the month.

What a bit of luck finding Mary Gwyer at the Old Crown, Uley, on our ‘Last Chance Saloon’ section, whilst we were stomping around at Cheltenham. By all accounts they provided extremely well for that lovely young filly Siobhan, who chose to join your party almost as an afterthought. Thank goodness she did – what a delight! EC1 certainly took a shine to her. Maybe they are lining her up for a visit to yours truly. One never knows and can only dream!

I am sorry our selection of hostelries around Aintree did not live up to the standard of Cheltenham. I am working on it and hope to be able to offer better fare for the summer meetings and those at Chester for that matter.

We have been tipped off to stay at Jacob’s Well in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, whilst attending the Punchestown Picnic. It certainly looks like our kind of venue and we are looking forward to enjoying the company of mine hosts Helen and Noel. I suggest you bring the whole gang along there for a re-union. Why indeed it will be all of three weeks since we had a pint together - far too long. Oh! And don’t forget to invite Siobhan.

Yours in anticipation

 

Tom

 

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                                                                                                                              FIve Rings Stud & Livery,

                                                                                                                              Knob's Hill,

                                                                                                                              Marshgate Lane,

                                                                                                                              Hackney Wick.

Tuesday 10th February 2009 

Dear Claudia,

What a pleasant surprise meeting up with you again at Plumpton and to have witnessed the veteran burden being carried to 3000 career victories by a beginner.  I presume your party were there to gauge the extent of my continued interest in you, which as you know will never wane and to negotiate the fee.  I hope our little exploit behind the bike shed of The Half Moon hasn’t spiked their guns.

Wasn’t that a pleasant meal at The Half Moon and how enterprising to offer 2 for 1 to those with foresight to register their interest in their newsletter from www.halfmoonplumpton.com.  Pity they no longer offer stabling except in an open field. However, I have hearsay that there is very pleasant accommodation available with Emma & John at The Chalk Pit Inn over towards Lewes, as shown on our Plumpton selection.  Next time perhaps!

That was the first time out for me this year what with the sniffles which confined me to barracks and the snow, which in a matter of hours brought the whole country to a standstill.  A few of my brethren trace horses would have had everything moving in no time, if they had been deployed.

Before Christmas EC1 took me to Lambourn and we took refuge in the new stabling block of Johnny the Fish at The Pheasant, Shefford Woodlands. They were very impressed with the accommodation and food, especially the black pudding on the ‘Either’ breakfast menu. A bit more expensive than they are used to paying but nevertheless good value they thought. You’ll find a picture on the Newbury section. 

They are trundling out the old charabanc again next week to join the Racegoers Club visit to David Pipe’s stables at Nicholashayne and racing at Taunton on Tuesday afternoon.  That is providing the whole area has not been washed out into The Bristol Channel. 

We are to sample the stabling at a new find near Wellington, The Anchor Inn at Hillfarranche. The owner Alan Jones holds out a warm welcome amongst  our Taunton selections.

There are still plenty of opportunities to get out and about over the next four weeks before the big ‘knees-up’ at Cheltenham, where accommodation is disappearing faster than the driven snow and to be sure EC1 will be on the lookout for an outing beforehand.  There are numerous meetings around the country to choose from – weather and course conditions permitting. 

Remaining accommodation for Cheltenham will appear in our ‘Last Chance Saloon’ section. If you were able to make it that would be ‘fantastique’. You know you will always be my favourite and I can’t wait for you to make the return trip across La Manche for another ‘rendez-vous avec moi’.

Yours witheringly until your return.

As ever Tom.

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