Durbanville Racecourse

Horse racing has been staged at Durbanville since around 1898. Races were held partly for recreation but also to finance the accommodation of the hunting club’s dogs. The last amateur Durbanville Gymkhana Club race meet was held in 1955. It was then renamed the Durbanville Turf Club and, finally, the Cape Hunt and Polo Club. It amalgamated with the Milnerton Turf Club under the umbrella of the Cape Turf Club. It is one of two racecourses in the Western Cape and is a left-handed 2000m near oval course, with a run-in of 600m and no straight course.

The course adjoins the Durbanville Nature Reserve, a 6-hectare piece of protected land that is host to about 130 species of plants, three of which exist only in Cape Town and 10 that are threatened with extinction.

21 Bowlers Ave Durbanville