Possible Clues:

• Course isn't always written up
• Playing tie near course
• Commonly, isn't starter excluded from complimentary course?
• Racecourse in Sefton, Merseyside
• Race course
• Trainee flustered by national course
• Common is not at any time to be given up for racecourse
• What could be seen as making fair place for horse racing
• Road in front of Northern oak, say, and course
• Racecourse which hosts the Grand National