Punters descend on Redcar and Carlisle as lockdown eases‘It’s great, it really is, having an atmosphere back on course’Grangeclare View was a well-backed winner of the first race run in front of a crowd at Redcar for over a year as racegoers returned on Monday.
Under the latest easing of the government’s lockdown measures, up to 4,000 racegoers or 50% capacity – whichever is lower – are permitted on course. Aside from a couple of trial events and a handful of meetings before
Christmas, racing has been taking place behind closed doors since the
Coronavirus pandemic took hold last March.