It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile ( 1, 609 metres ), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late April or early May.

: Articles ordered by His Majestie to be observed by all persons that put in horses to ride for the Plate, the new round heat at Newmarket set out on the first day of October, 1664, in the 16th year of our Sovereign Lord King Charles II, which Plate is to be rid for yearly, the second Thursday in October for ever.

As a formal entity the town is known to have been in existence as a town certainly as early as 1783 when the State Legislature authorized the payment for a road "... from the main road from Newmarket to Vienna to the grist-mill of Michael Hall Bonwill, and thence till it intersect the main road from Cambridge to Vienna.

It is from Bury St Edmunds and from Newmarket.

Starcraft ( foaled 21 October 2000 in New Zealand ) is an Australian-owned Thoroughbred racehorse who came to international attention when he won the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Newmarket in England in September 2005.

Newmarket is a market town in the English county of Suffolk, approximately 65 miles ( 105 kilometres ) north of London.

The Jockey Club's clubhouse is in Newmarket, though its administration is based in London.

By comparison, the human population is of the order of 15, 000 and it is estimated that one in three jobs are connected to horseracing in one way or another Newmarket has 3 main sections of Heath, all of which are used to train the racehorses on.

It is also a very historical area with the remains of 6th century living This hill is part of the chalk formation the Newmarket Ridge.

Newmarket railway station is on the Cambridge-Bury St. Edmunds-Ipswich rail line, formerly belonging to the Great Eastern Railway ( later part of the LNER ).

The area of Suffolk containing Newmarket is nearly an exclave, with only a narrow strip of territory linking it to the rest of the county.

Unlike most of England, which operates a two tier school system, state education in Newmarket and its catchment area is a three-tier system.

Newmarket is home to both an Air Training Corps Squadron and an Army Cadet Detachment.

Newmarket is the birthplace of 2008 Olympics cycling Silver Medalist Ross Edgar and Brit Award winner Dina Carroll.

Mallow is a stop on the Bus Eireann 53 bus service from Cork to Galway and 243 bus service from Cork to Newmarket service.

In 1880, Mulock purchased a large property on what is now the northwest corner of Mulock Drive and Yonge Street in Newmarket.

Mulock is buried in Newmarket Cemetery.

The club is based at the Abbey Stadium on Newmarket Road, approximately 3 kilometres east of Cambridge city centre.

The regional government is headquartered in Newmarket.

Newmarket is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

* The first known race track of the post-classical era opens at Newmarket in London.

The club's first meetings were held at the Star & Garter Pub at Pall Mall, London before later moving to Newmarket ; a town known in the United Kingdom as " The Home of Racing ".

Racing at Newmarket has been dated as far back as 1174, making it the earliest known racing venue of post-classical times.

Newmarket's first railway was a line built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway and opened in 1848 ( known as the " Newmarket Railway ").

Local bars and pubs include The Newmarket, The Red Lion, locally known as the " Beastie ", The Mosset Tavern, and The Carlton Hotel.

At Michaelmas 1337, de Illegh acquired another hall of residence adjacent to the King's Hall, known as Crouched Hall or Newmarket Hostel.

Newmarket High School, London South Collegiate Institute, Banting Memorial High School and Earl Haig Secondary School are examples of known schools in Ontario to arrange homecomings.

As a result of this report many roads were built in the area, including the road from Castleisland to Clonbanin, from Ballydesmond to Newmarket, and the new line road, along the Feale valley from Feales Bridge through Rockchapel to Newmarket The engineering work on these roads and bridges was done by Richard Griffith who later became well known in Ireland through his Griffith valuations of 1852.

King's Highway 404, also known as Highway 404 and colloquially as the four-oh-four, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway ( DVP ) in Toronto with Newmarket.

The Agitators, with two officers from each regiment and the Generals formed a new body called the Army Council which after a meeting near Newmarket, Suffolk on Friday 4 June 1647 issued " A Solemne Engagement of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax " to Parliament on 8 June making their concerns known, and also the constitution of the Army Council so that Parliament would understand that the discontent was army-wide and had the support of both officers and other ranks.

The St. John's Maple Leafs were established in 1991 when the Toronto Maple Leafs moved its AHL farm team from Newmarket, Ontario, known as the Newmarket Saints, to St. John's, becoming the first professional ice hockey team in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Leper Chapel in Cambridge, also currently known as the Leper Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, lies on the east side of Cambridge, England, off Newmarket Road just after crossing over the railway line at Barnwell Junction.

Despite the additions, however, the 1960s saw an increasingly intolerable situation developing at Newmarket District High School, as it was then known.

Newmarket High School sports teams are known as the NHS Raiders ( logo is a ferocious looking Viking pillager whose current incarnation is not unlike that of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League ).

From 1969 to his death on February 8, 1986 in Newmarket, Ontario Canada Underwood was well known for his system and honoured and profiled frequently by the North American media.

The chalk escarpment straddles two very different local eco-systems-the Cambridgeshire Fens to the west, where the land slopes down and the chalk heathland to the east, known locally as Swaffham Prior heath, part of the Greater Newmarket chalk heath, where the land height increases and plateaus into a larger area towards the east.

Steinlager ( sometimes known as Steinlager Classic ) is a lager-style beer brewed by Lion Nathan in Newmarket, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

The Agitators with two Army Officers from each regiment and the Generals formed a new body called the Army Council which after a rendezvous ( meeting ) near Newmarket on Friday 4 June 1647 issued " A Solemne Engagement of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax " to Parliament on 8 June making their concerns known and also the constitution of the Army Council so that Parliament would understand that the discontent was Army wide and had the support of officers and other ranks.

All matches were held at Newmarket Park, in Auckland, and five teams participated: New Zealand, New Caledonia, Tahiti, New Hebrides ( now known as Vanuatu ) and Fiji.

In 1898 Beatty returned from leave after the Sudan campaign, but finding life in Ireland at the family home not to his taste, stayed instead with his brother at Newmarket.

Cornwall has been home to a variety of sports teams, the most notable of which was the Cornwall Royals hockey team which played in both the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League before moving to Newmarket in 1992.

When her grandfather died in 1921, Edwina inherited his vast fortune, which included £ 2 million, the country seat of Broadlands, Romsey, co. Hampshire ; Brooke House in London ; Moulton Paddocks estate in Newmarket, Suffolk ; and the seaside home at Branksome Dene in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Beechurst House ( built in 1901 ) was formerly the home of the late Newmarket jockey, Charles Morbey.

Dallas and Ellen Smyly opened The Irish Church Missionaries Ragged School in the Coombe opened initially in 1853 in Weaver's Hall, later moved to the corner of Newmarket Street, the home was closed in 1944 and children were moved to the Smyly home in Monkstown.

In the Soham House Stakes at Newmarket, Dancing Brave again started favourite after reports that he had been performing better at home than the stable's William Hill Futurity winner Bakharoff.

A fan of horse racing, in 2003 he formed the Alan Brazil Racing Club based at Newmarket near to his home in Suffolk .< ref name =" abrc ">

The town of Newmarket, in Suffolk, England, is the headquarters of British horseracing, home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country and many key horse racing organisations.

On 29 May 2009, Richard started a 1000 Mile Challenge for charity and walk the same mile 1000 consecutive times in Newmarket for 1000 consecutive hours with the last mile up the home straight of Newmarket racecourse just before the Bunbury Cup on 10 July 2009.