ALL-WEATHER: Lingfield Racecourse is a left-handed all-weather track, laid out inside the turf track and measures just less than a mile and a quarter. It is essentially sharp in nature. This ensures that stamina is rarely at a premium and strong-travelling types with a turn of foot are often favoured. Predominantly flat, there is a slight downhill turn into the straight. At shorter trips, prominent racers tend to outperform those ridden more patiently, though there seems little advantage over further distances.
FLAT: Left handed. The round course is about a mile and a half in length, which intersects the straight, of seven furlongs and one hundred and forty yards, nearly half a mile out. The downhill turn into the straight means that those poaching an advantage at this point are hard to reel in. Essentially a sharp course, putting a premium on speed and adaptability, though the whole complexion of the course changes when the going becomes testing.
NATIONAL HUNT: Left handed, undulating. Sharp in character on anything other than soft/heavy ground (though testing conditions do often prevail, and the track suffers more abandonments per meeting than any other jumps course), a handy position into the straight often paying dividends, especially over fences. Bumper races usually run on the all-weather track nowadays; these are nearly always falsely-run affairs which count against stoutly-bred NH types.