New two-day racing festival celebrating the local flavour of Cheshire on the Chester Racecourse calendar.
The Cheshire Racing Festival is coming to Chester Racecourse on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 September 2027. It's a new addition to the course's fixture list, run over two days, and it's being built around celebrating the county itself. The whole idea is to bring a local flavour to the racing calendar, so it's as much about the area as it is about the horses.
It sits alongside the fixtures most of us already know. There's the Boodles May Festival, which officially opens the racing season and brings the highest calibre of racing the course sees; the Music Weekend, which is a guest favourite; and Ladies Day, the best-selling event of the year. The new festival adds another date to that mix, this time in September.
Sam Martin, Head of Marketing and Communications at Chester Race Company, describes the 2027 calendar as a brilliant mix of familiar favourites and new themes. That's exactly where this fits in — it's the new theme for the year, sitting alongside the events that come back every season.
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General admission tickets start from £11, with higher prices by enclosure and hospitality. One detail worth noting is that a price freeze is holding 2027 day-out prices at 2026 levels, so it's the same as last year.
