Down Royal Race Course

Down Royal Racecourse is a horse racing venue near Lisburn in Northern Ireland. The most valuable race run there is the Ladbrokes Champion Chase, run at the Northern Ireland Festival of racing in November. The most valuable flat race to be run there annually is the Ulster Derby.Racing has beentaking place on the current course, at Maze near Lisburn, since, the early 18thCentury on land donated by Arthur Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, but thehistory of Down Royal goes further back to 1685 when King James II issued aRoyal Charter and formed the Down Royal Corporation of Horse Breeders.

Maze is an electoral ward (and a townland) in the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council (formerly Lisburn City Council) area of Northern Ireland. It predominantly lies in County Down although its northwestern corner lies in County Antrim, the division being the River Lagan. The Maze electoral ward consists of the settlements of Mazetown, Long Kesh, Culcavy, Aghnatrisk, Halftown and Ravernet.

Mazetown or Maze (possibly from Irish an Mhias, meaning 'the basin', otherwise known as an Mhaigh meaning "the plain") is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It was named after the townland of Maze. The village and townland sit on the southern bank of the River Lagan, which separates it from Lurganure.