Musselburgh Racecourse

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Musselburgh Racecourse is a horse racing venue located in the Millhill area of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, UK, close to the River Esk. It is the second biggest racecourse in Scotland (the first being Ayr) and is the fourteenth biggest in the UK. In 2016, Musselburgh staged 25 fixtures. It was officially known as "Edinburgh Racecourse", and referred to as such in the English press, until the beginning of 1996 but was widely referred to as "Musselburgh" in Scotland long before that and was widely referred to as Musselburgh in the racing pages of Scottish newspapers.

The course is right-handed, with sharp bends, and offers both flat racing and National Hunt meetings (though it only introduced jumping in 1987), with the flat course being about 1m 2f round, and the jumps course slightly longer. The flat course has a straight course of five furlongs which joins the round course four furlongs from home. There are eight fences on the national hunt course, four in each straight.