{"id":117835,"date":"2025-09-06T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117835\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:17:09","slug":"ascot-racecourse-named-one-of-the-most-popular-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117835\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascot Racecourse named one of the most popular in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The research, conducted by racing experts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olbg.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OLBG<\/a>, analysed attendances at the UK\u2019s top racecourses over the last 10 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ascot emerged as the racecourse with the highest average attendance, welcoming more than 500,000 visitors annually.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In total, more than 5.1 million people have visited the racecourse over the past decade, with the Royal Ascot festival attracting more than one million visitors on its own.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cheltenham came in second place, with more than 400,000 annual visitors, and a total attendance of more than 4.3 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  York completed the top three, averaging just under 300,000 visitors per year in the last decade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The study also found although Royal Ascot is the most attended event, Cheltenham Festival has a higher daily average due to its shorter duration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, the Grand National has seen a decline in attendance of more than 10 per cent since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The research, conducted by racing experts at OLBG, analysed attendances at the UK\u2019s top racecourses over the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-117835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}