Next Big Horse Race 2020

Here is your complete guide to Australia’s horse racing calendar for 2020. Not every Group 1 race for 2020 has been locked in yet, so bookmark this page and check back as more are added. Major Horse Races. Stay up to date on when the biggest horse races of the season are coming up. Click on the links for any of the major races below to get in-depth details about the history of various races, the winningest trainers and thoroughbreds for individual events, and much, much more! Find out the dates for all Group 1 races on the Australian thoroughbred racing calendar each season; with links through to the fields, form, results & race replays 2020/2021 Australian Group 1 Races Calendar RACING.

When will racing resume following the coronavirus lockdown and what are the plans for the big races? Check out our timeline and schedule for all the key dates and events through the summer.

Racing in Britain has been suspended since March 17 amid the global coronavirus pandemic, with the last meetings to take place being staged at Wetherby and Taunton, both behind closed doors, but plans are in place to resume on June 1, pending government sign-off.

Social distancing restrictions will be employed, along with facial coverings for those deemed likely to need to breach the two-metre rule, including jockeys, trainers, stalls handlers, stable staff and valets.

The British Horseracing Authority is also planning an ongoing surveillance programme to monitor the virus in the racing communities, which will include some testing, while the sport will try to reduce the use of any medical or NHS services to a minimum, employing other health care resources, such as private ambulances, hospitals and medics, to protect the NHS.

• British Horseracing's 2021 Fixture List. The 2021 Fixture List has now been published in part, with the months from January to April confirmed and the majority of the fixtures through the remainder of the year scheduled, but subject to change.
• The horse racing calendar never relents and 2020 promises to once again be a bumper year. The likes of Cheltenham, the Grand National and Royal Ascot are going to be huge as we enter a brand new decade and here at Bet & Skill we’ll be with you every step of the way with all the latest horse racing predictions. Right here you’ll find a full calendar to the major race dates across the year.

Social distancing officers will be appointed by the BHA to ensure all measures are implemented and strictly adhered to at all racedays.

But how will the programme look on resumption?

Here is a clear timeline of the current proposed plans, highlighting when and where all the major races are set to be staged.

June

1st - Flat racing resumes in Britain at Newcastle with an eight-race afternoon meeting

2nd - Day two in Britain sees another meeting at Newcastle, plus Kempton - both on the all-weather

3rd - First Pattern races in the UK, featuring the Group 3 Classic Trial & Listed EBF Snowdrop Fillies' Stakes, both at Kempton. Yarmouth also plays host to the first turf meeting with a bumper nine-race programme

4th - Group 3 Pavillion Stakes, Newcastle (switched from Ascot). Newmarket also stages its first planned meeting

5th - Group 1 Coronation Cup (switched from Epsom), Group 3 Abernant Stakes & Listed Paradise Stakes (both switched from Ascot), Newmarket. Listed Oaks Trial and Derby Trial, Lingfield

6th - Group 1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas, Group 2 Dahlia Fillies' Stakes & Group 3 Palace House Stakes, Newmarket. Action also planned at Newcastle and Lingfield

7th - Group 1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas, Listed Buckhounds Stakes & Listed EBF Pretty Polly Fillies' Stakes, Newmarket. The Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes set for Haydock (switched from Sandown)

8th - Flat racing resumes in Ireland at Naas

9th - Listed 1,000 Guineas Trial & Listed 2,000 Guineas Trial, Leopardstown

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10th - Listed Heritage Stakes & Listed Salsabil Stakes, Navan

12th - Group 1 Irish 2,000 Guineas & Group 2 Ridgewood Pearl Stakes, The Curragh

13th - Group 1 Irish 1,000 Guineas & Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes, The Curragh

14th - Listed Saval Beg Stakes and Listed Noblesse Stakes, Leopardstown

16th-20th - Royal Ascot (click here for schedule amendments and more details)

21st - Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes, Leopardstown (switched from Naas)

22nd - Jumps racing resumes in Ireland, Limerick

27th - Group 1 Irish Derby, The Curragh

28th - Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes, Group 3 Vintage Crop Stakes & Rockingham Handicap, The Curragh

July

1st - Jumps racing resumes in Britain, Southwell

4th - Investec Derby & Investec Oaks, Epsom

Horse Racing Stakes Schedule 2020

5th - Coral-Eclipse, Sandown

9th-11th - July Festival, Newmarket

18th - Irish Oaks, The Curragh

27th - Guinness Galway Hurdle & Tote.com Galway Plate, Galway

28th-Aug 1st - Qatar Goodwood Festival, Goodwood

August

19th-22nd - Ebor Festival, York

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