''A Day at the Races'' is the fifth album by British rock group Queen, released in December 1976. ''A Day at the Races'' was the band's first completely self-produced album, and the first not to feature producer Roy Thomas Baker. Recorded at Sarm East, The Manor and Wessex Studios in England, ''A Day at the Races'' was engineered by Mike Stone. The title of the album followed suit with its predecessor ''A Night at the Opera'' in taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers.

In recent years, a number of publications have cited ''A Day at the Races'' as one of the band's finest works. The album peaked at number one in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands. It reached number five on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and was Queen's fifth album to ship gold (500,000 units shipped) in the US. It subsequently reached platinum status (one million shipped) in the US. - Wikipedia