Cork Racecourse
Dual-purpose Munster track on the banks of the Blackwater.
Cork Racecourse (Cork Racecourse Mallow) sits on the banks of the River Blackwater just west of Mallow town in Co. Cork, on the main Killarney Road in the Munster province. Opened in 1924 as Mallow Racecourse, it is a dual-purpose venue staging both Flat and National Hunt racing across roughly 20 fixtures a year. The track is a right-handed, broadly oval and galloping turf circuit of about a mile and a half, with a straight sprint course and good natural drainage that keeps the ground from becoming heavy despite the riverside setting. It is best known for its jumps feature, the Grade 2 Hilly Way Chase in December, and the Cork Grand National handicap chase, alongside Flat black-type races such as the Munster Oaks. The area's racing heritage traces to the 1752 Buttevant-to-Doneraile match, regarded as the first steeplechase.
The track
Right-handed · TurfA flat, fair, right-handed galloping oval roughly a mile and a half round, with a straight sprint chute and a four-furlong home straight; jumps circuit has eight fences per circuit, three in the home straight.
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