Which was the first British racecourse to have an all-weather track which it opened in 1989 originally using a surface called Equitrack?
Lingfield Park Racecourse 2004. In early 2009 the course had another record broken as Matsunosuke became the highest rated horse to win on the all-weather surface rated 112 or 117 by Racing Post rating. This was dubbed as the greatest all-weather horse of all time in the UK. In addition, there's now a Marriott hotel based on the racecourse. The racecourse is featured in the 1954 film "The Rainbow Jacket". Lingfield Park Racecourse Lingfield Park Racecourse (commonly referred to as Lingfield) is a horse racing course at Lingfield in Surrey, United Kingdom. It is owned by the ARC Racing and Leisure Group, formerly
Remington Park its main track called Equitrack, which utilized grains of sand coated with a wax polymer. The intent was to provide a safe all-weather racing surface that would provide a fast condition for all races. The Equitrack experiment failed as the surface did not hold up during the very warm Oklahoma summers. Remington Park replaced Equitrack with a more traditional natural ingredient racing surface. No other American track used a synthetic surface until 2005, when Turfway Park installed an improved product called Polytrack. The main dirt track is one mile in circumference with the inner turf course measuring seven furlongs. Since