Tourist Information
Newmarket Tourist Information Centre:
Palace House, Palace Street, tel 01638
667200.
Market Days: Tuesdays and Saturdays
Website
For more information visit
www.newmarketjournal.co.uk
Cambridge Tourist Information Centre:
The Old Library, Wheeler Street (moving to
nearby Peas Hill in spring/early summer), tel
0871 226 8006
IF you have an interest in horse
racing, be it a day out at the
races, having a flutter on the
Grand National or just love hors-
es, a visit to the National
Horseracing Museum and Tours
is a must.
The museum tells the stories
and scandals of racing through
the ages and includes displays
and objects associated with
famous racing heroes such as
tragic champion Victorian jock-
ey, Fred Archer, to modern day
champions like the legendary
Red Rum, and jockeys Lester
Piggott and Frankie Dettori.
The Practical Gallery is staffed
by retired jockeys and trainers
and you can learn straight from
the horse's mouth how to pre-
pare a horse for a race, what
they eat and how to tack up, the
you can put on your silks and
ride the horse simulator!
To complement the museum
are the daily Equine Tours which
take visitors behind the scenes
to trainers' yards, the equine
swimming pool, on to the world
famous training ground to see
some of the 2,800 racehorses
out on exercise and in to private
studs.
2009 exhibitions include, The
Story of Tattersalls. Also this
year is an exhibition on Racing
Welfare, racing's leading welfare
charity.
For further details about tours
and events at the museum, call
01638 667333 or visit
www.nhrm.co.uk
THE National Stud is the showcase for British
Thoroughbred breeding. It comprises over 500
acres of prime pastureland on the edge of
Newmarket, headquarters of racing in the UK.
One of the primary roles of the stud is to
ensure that the world of bloodstock is more
accessible to the wider general public.
This year the stud will be home to the
Grand National winner, Amberleigh House and
to minature Shetland ponies
Guided Tours are run twice daily at 11.15am
and 2.00pm from February 1 to September 30.
For more information or to book, please
call: 01638 663464 or e-mail:
tours@nationalstud.co.uk
NEWMARKET has been home to
horse racing since the 17th century
when it hosted the first-ever official
race, the Town Plate in 1664.
The town then became the
founding location of the headquar-
ters of the Jockey Club and the
centre for aspects of racing activity.
Newmarket is home to many rac-
ing organisations, trainers and jock-
eys, where more racehorses are
bred, stabled and trained than any-
where else in the world. It is
undoubtedly the Home of Horse
racing.
Spring at Newmarket means
world class racing on the NatWest
Rowley Mile, the `Course of
Champions', during April and May.
Nine racedays will be run on the
most historic stretch of turf in the
entire world of sport, where equine
champions have been crowned for
centuries.
The Craven Meeting is on
Wednesday and Thursday, April 15
and 16 and the Guineas Festival is
being held on Saturday and
Sunday, May 2 and 3. There is rac-
ing on Thursday evening, May 14
and on May 22 and 23, with coun-
tryside Raceday on May 24.
On the July Racecourse, Ladies'
Day is being held on July 9, during
the three-day July Festival. This
event gains in popularity every year,
attracting celebrities from the
sporting, political and show busi-
ness worlds
and it is
sure to
draw even
more in this
its ninth
year.
Racing
finishes on
the July
Racecourse
on Friday
and Saturday, August 28 and 29,
returning to the Rowley Mile course
in September.
So whether you go to the big
racing festivals, to the ever-popular
Newmarket Nights on the July
Course, from June 19 to August 14,
where Friday evening racing is fol-
lowed by live concerts, or to any of
the family-friendly fixtures, you will
enjoy the unique atmosphere
Newmarket has to offer.
For more information call 01638
663482.
NEWMARKET Carnival is one of the summer
highlights in the town and for 2009 the theme is
Music and Dance from around the World.
Held on Saturday, July 4, the floats will assem-
ble at The Severals and the parade will set off up
the High Street at 1pm to the Rowley Mile
Racecourse, where the carnival proper will begin.
There is entertainment for the whole family,
including bands playing, demonstrations by local
organisations, charity stalls and much more.
This year the town council is holding a St
George's Day celebration in the Memorial Hall on
April 23, the day itself. There will be rousing
music and other entertainment, the event starts
at 5pm and runs through to 9pm. Tickets are �5
and there will be sausage and mash and a
licensed bar.
The town council is organising a free Easter
Party for children on April 2, but places must be
booked. Call the number below. There will also
be a Christmas party for children, and anyone
interested should ring the council during October.
During the school summer holidays the town
council has arranged free entertainment for chil-
dren in the Memorial Hall Gardens, every
Thursday afternoon, from 1.30pm to 4pm, when
there will be bouncy castles, magic shows and
other entertainment.
For more information on just how much
Newmarket has to offer, call 01638 667227.
MAKE no bones about it -- the Sedgwick
Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge is a
treasure chest filled with thousands of rocks,
minerals and fossils from around the world.
For more than 100 years it has welcomed
visitors, FREE OF CHARGE, and invited them
to explore the amazing story of the Earth.
There are events and activities for families,
free learning resources and hands-on facili-
ties. Free rock, mineral and fossil identifica-
tions are given, and there is a shop selling
toys, books fossils and jewellery.
With Cambridge celebrating Charles
Darwin's bicentenary this year, there is bound
to be increased interest in the natural world,
and this is the ideal place for you to find out
more.The Sedgwick Museum is in Downing
Street in the city centre, just round the corner
from the bus station.
CAMBRIDGE is probably the most
famous university city in the world
and has sent its name, its image and
its scholars across five continents.
Many of the university buildings,
magnificent examples of architecture
in their own right, are situated in the
centre of Cambridge backing on to
the River Cam, and are uniquely
accessible.
Visitors can go into college court-
yards, chapels and some gardens at
most times of the year. Punts can be
hired on the river and provide a
most attractive means of viewing the
backs of the colleges.
Cambridge has a variety of shop-
ping facilities, ranging from large
department stores to small, special-
ist outlets, with some of the coun-
try's best new, second-hand and
antiquarian bookshops. The univer-
sity dates from the 13th century and
today has 31 colleges, among the
most beautiful being Queen's, Trinity,
Magdalene, St John's, Clare, Jesus,
Emmanuel and King's.
The University Botanic Gardens,
regarded as second in importance
only to Kew Gardens, have 40 acres
of gardens and glasshouses and are
open to visitors.
At Madingley, near Cambridge,
you will find the Cambridge
American Military Cemetery.
It is the last resting place of 3,812
American Servicemen and com-
memorates 5,125 on the Wall of the
Missing.
CAMBRIDGE University reaches a special mile-
stone with its 800th anniversary in 2009.
It was in 1209 that groups of scholars congre-
gated at the ancient Roman trading post of
Cambridge for the purpose of study, the earliest
record of the university.
The anniversary will be marked through a vari-
ety of events throughout the year.
Further information from 01223 761672 or at
www.800.cam.ac.uk
CAMBRIDGE Tourist Information Centre was
due to move -- but only just round the corner
from Wheeler Street to Peas Hill -- in
spring/early summer this year.
It will form part of a new complex alongside a
retail outlet, coffee shop and the current Live the
City treasure hunt experience. In it's place will be
a new Jamie Oliver Italian restaurant.
For further information ring 01223 457571 or
visit www.visitcambridge.org
CAMBRIDGE will this year be celebrating the
200th anniversary of the birth of the great natu-
ralist Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary
of the publication of The Origin of the Species,
as well as the huge role Cambridge University
played in shaping the man and his work.
Darwin attended Christ's College from 1828-31
and it was at Cambridge that he met his great
friend and life-long mentor Professor John
Henslow, the man who inspired him to study nat-
ural history and negotiated his position on board
HMS Beagle.
Today, the city is home to the vast majority of
Darwin's output, including specimens from his
voyage on the Beagle, manuscripts, working
papers, notebooks and journals.
The main festival will run from July 5-10 and
will be a major international and national event,
as well as one that reaches out to the local com-
munity.
It will feature a range of talks, lectures and
exhibitions, and will welcome attendees including
Sir David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Ian
McEwan.
The Fitzwilliam Museum will host a unique and
pioneering new exhibition, Endless Forms,
exploring the influence of Darwin's discoveries on
visual artists and their work (running June 16-
October 4), a new Darwin Garden will open at
the Botanic Garden, plus a permanent new exhi-
bition, Darwin the Geologist, at the Sedgwick
Museum. More details at
www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk
DARWIN DATES TO CELEBRATE
800th anniversary
Fun on the river behind the colleges at Cambridge.
Racing thrills at Newmarket.
CARNIVAL
Thoroughbreds
Legends
Home of horse racing
Famous university city
The Sedgwick really rocks...

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