Sandown Races, Racecourse & Betting Odds

Sandown racecourse is a well planned and designed race track, this track has a circumference of 1891 and runs anti clockwise. The track has a 407 long straight and runs down hill from the 1100m turn then a slight rise from the last turn to the winning post.

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Sandown Race Track:

Sandown Racecourse

About Sandown Races

The Sandown Racecourse is one of the four horse racing sites of the Victoria Amateur turf club and is the only one that was built in the 20^th century. It opened in June 1965 with a crowd of 52,000 people. It is located 25 kilometres from the central business district of Melbourne in the Springvale suburb in Greater Dandenong.

The original layout of the course is oval in shape and it has a circumference of 1892 metres. The horse racing circuit is also 30 metres wide and features sweeping and cambered turns. Meanwhile, the home straight of the Sandown Racecourse is 407 metres long and is uphill. The Sandown Racecourse complex also contains the Sandown Raceway which caters to motor races.

Due to the growing popularity of the Sandown Racecourse, a number of overseas horses have competed at the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Also, a quarantine centre was also established at Sandown in 1997.

In 2001, the Melbourne Racing Club redeveloped the Sandown horse racing track. For the redevelopment, an additional 30 metres was added to the width of the home turn while the width of the main straight was added by 30 to 45 meters. The turn out of the straight was also widened by 30 to 45 metres.

This redevelopment created two tracks at Sandown. The outer horse racing track which also uses the outer 30 metres of the straight was named the Sandown Hillside while the inner track is called the Sandown Lakeside. The Lakeside course has a circumference of 1857 metres and a straight of 407 meters.

On the other hand, the Sandown Hillside course has a circumference of 2087 meters and a home straight of 491 metres. The redeveloped tracks were opened in January 25, 2003 and the number of horse racing meets at Sandown went up from 32 to 41. Out of these racing meets, some of the most notable races are the Eclipse Stakes Day and the Sandown Classic Day every November.

These two horse racing meets are generally called the Sandown Carnival which closes the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Other notable horse races in Sandown include the 1600-metre Group Two Sandown Guineas for three-year-olds, the 2400-metre Group 2 Sandown Classic and the 1400-metre Group 3 Sandown Stakes.