Kempton Park races for the first time on Wednesday since the sudden announcement on Tuesday that the Jockey Club, its owner, feels compelled to sell it off for housing to fund a new all-weather track near its HQ in Newmarket. But there will be several hundred more chances for racegoers to visit the historic track, which opened in 1878, before the earliest possible date for its demise in 2021, and the seven races on a floodlit all-weather card are unlikely to tempt too many extra visitors to Sunbury on a cold January evening.
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