Great Leighs racecourse is sold and its future secured
The future of Great Leighs is secured, says its new owner MC Racecourses. The company, part of the Martin Collins Enterprises Ltd stable, took occupancy of the track on 25 November.
The all-weather track near Chelmsford, Essex, Britain’s first new course for 81 years, opened with great fanfare in April 2008. But within nine months it had closed, owing £24.7million.
Now the process to bring racing back to the track will start in January. H&H reported that the deal was on the table earlier this year.
This news story was first published in the current issue of H&H (8 December 2011)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.