Suffolk

The National Horse Racing Museum has been awarded a Gold Award in the Visitor Attraction Accolades 2023-24 held by VisitEngland. In addition, East Anglia, which includes the Newmarket institution, secured a top spot in Lonely Planet's Best of Travel 2025. The VisitEngland Awards recognise excellence within the domestic visitor attraction sector, with 72 attractions nationwide receiving the prestigious accolade. They are judged on what makes an outstanding visitor attraction across five categories including: 'Welcome'; 'Quality Food and Drink'; 'Hidden Gem'; 'Best Told Story'; and a 'Gold' standard for overall excellence....

The British Racing School (BRS) is well known for its key role in providing rounded training for young staff coming into the industry, and in recent years within its grounds in Newmarket a new charitable project has been launched. The Newmarket Pony Academy (NPA) was the brainchild of Godolphin's charities manager Penny Taylor. In association with BRS CEO Andrew Braithwaite and former CEO Grant Harris, she formulated a pilot for a scheme aimed at helping vulnerable and disadvantaged schoolchildren in the catchment area of Suffolk and Cambridge. "The schools can...

In Sunday's TDN, we published Bill Finley's ode to shuttered racetracks, and asked others to try to beat his number of 28 at which he had attended live racing. The letters continue to pour in from readers sharing their own memories of their favorites. Here is a sampling. Thanks for the article about all the race tracks that are now gone. I also grew up in Philadelphia and my parents were big horse race fans. I got my first exposure to horse racing at Delaware Park since they let children...