Tags: Race Track, Racecourse.
Leicester Racecourse is a horse-racing course in Oadby Leicestershire England.The course is oval shaped and nearly 2 miles in extent. It was opened ante 1773.The course hosts both forms of British horse racing event: National Hunt in which the horses race over fences or over hurdles and Flat racing in which the horses run an unobstructed distance.Prior to the 2009/10 National Hunt season the open ditch which was jumped as the fourth last fence was moved to the home straight.