Belmont Park Racecourse is Perth’s winter racing venue, hosting weekly race meetings between the months of May and October.

Belmont Park is located at Burswood on the banks of the Swan River and is adjacent to Perth’s new football and sports stadium that opened in 2018.

Racing at Belmont Park began more than 120 years ago and was also the site of Western Australia’s first harness race meeting in 1910.

The Western Australian Trotting Association continued to conduct race meetings at Belmont Park and Claremont Showgrounds until harness racing commenced at Gloucester Park in 1913.

Belmont Park racecourse has a circumference of 1699m with the home straight measuring 333m.

Belmont Park is an oval shaped course with sweeping turns and starting chutes for races over 1400m, 1650 and 2400m. However the main chute is for the 1000m sprints.

Given it is hosts all the winter racing, it is renowned as a fine wet weather track due to excellent drainage that rarely sees a winter meeting lost due to the weather.

The winter carnival at Belmont Park features several Group 3 races including the Belmont Sprint, Hyperion Stakes and Strickland Stakes.