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1368 races on record, 2020-07-06 to 2026-10-08
Ayr racecourse hosts jump racing in the winter and Flat racing during the summer months. The highlight of the jumps season at Ayr is its Scottish Grand National meeting during April. Paul Nicholls has enjoyed plenty of success with Vicente in recent years, and isn’t the only southern trainer who sends runners up to Scotland for the meeting, with Nicky Henderson also well represented. The Scottish Champion Hurdle and the Future Champion Novices’ Chase are two other Graded races on the day. During the Flat season, Ayr’s Gold Cup meeting in September is the highlight. The Gold Cup has become such a strong race in recent years that there are now two consolation races in the form of the Ayr Silver Cup and Ayr Bronze Cup for horses that don’t make the cut in the main race.
The Ayr course is a left-handed circuit of one and a half miles comprising nine fences. It has well-graduated turns and a steady downhill run to the home turn before a gentle rise to the finish. There is a run-in of approximately one furlong. When the going is firm the course is sharp, but conditions regularly get extremely gruelling in mid-winter, that in itself explaining why the chase course claims similar numbers of casualties to such as Cheltenham and Haydock.
Left handed, galloping oval track. The round course is about twelve furlongs long with a run-in of four furlongs. The turn approaching the straight is slightly downhill, and it's possible for those prominent to gain an advantage once in line for home. The straight course is particularly wide, allowing for sprints with a maximum field size of 25, making it rare for the runners to stay in one group in big-field events. A course whose character changes dramatically on account of the going; it's one of the most gruelling in the country on heavy ground.
| Flat | 860 | 9.3 | 33.7% |
| Hurdle | 282 | 9.2 | 41.5% |
| Chase | 176 | 7.3 | 37.5% |
| Bumper | 50 | 8.4 | 46% |
| Jim Goldie | 953 | 122 | 12.8% | -15.01 |
| Lucinda Russell & Michael Scudamore | 508 | 75 | 14.8% | +5.85 |
| Iain Jardine | 596 | 64 | 10.7% | -152.42 |
| N. W. Alexander | 345 | 57 | 16.5% | +59.86 |
| R. Mike Smith | 671 | 50 | 7.5% | -300.00 |
| Michael Dods | 383 | 42 | 11.0% | -61.94 |
| David O'Meara | 338 | 40 | 11.8% | -73.47 |
| Tim Easterby | 374 | 37 | 9.9% | -32.51 |
| Nicky Richards | 203 | 33 | 16.3% | -25.46 |
| Richard Fahey | 309 | 30 | 9.7% | -102.08 |
| Paul Mulrennan | 593 | 95 | 16.0% | -72.06 |
| Jason Hart | 363 | 50 | 13.8% | -6.26 |
| Andrew Mullen | 398 | 44 | 11.1% | -80.47 |
| Daniel Tudhope | 288 | 43 | 14.9% | -42.03 |
| Joe Fanning | 232 | 36 | 15.5% | -21.00 |
| Connor Beasley | 296 | 36 | 12.2% | -44.79 |
| Derek Fox | 211 | 34 | 16.1% | -25.65 |
| Brian Hughes | 270 | 34 | 12.6% | -107.46 |
| Sean Quinlan | 238 | 31 | 13.0% | -26.43 |
| Danny McMenamin | 213 | 30 | 14.1% | -30.05 |
| 2026-10-08 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2026-09-29 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2026-09-19 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2026-09-18 | 8 | Soft |
| 2026-09-17 | 8 | Good To Soft |
| 2026-08-10 | 8 | Good To Soft |
| 2026-08-08 | 7 | Good |
| 2026-07-27 | 7 | Good To Firm |
| 2026-07-20 | 7 | Good To Firm |
| 2026-07-13 | 7 | Good To Firm |
| 2026-07-06 | 7 | Good |
| 2026-07-05 | 7 | Good |
| 2026-06-20 | 7 | Soft |
| 2026-06-19 | 7 | Soft |
| 2026-05-20 | 8 | Good To Firm |
| 2026-05-05 | 7 | Good To Firm |
| 2026-04-18 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2026-04-17 | 7 | Soft |
| 2026-03-07 | 7 | Soft |
| 2026-03-06 | 6 | Soft |
| 2026-02-23 | 6 | Soft |
| 2026-02-10 | 7 | Soft |
| 2026-01-29 | 7 | Soft |
| 2026-01-13 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2026-01-02 | 7 | Soft |
| 2025-12-01 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2025-11-12 | 6 | Soft |
| 2025-11-01 | 7 | Soft |
| 2025-10-09 | 7 | Heavy |
| 2025-09-30 | 7 | Soft |