Gowran Park Racecourse
Right-handed Kilkenny dual-purpose track, home of the Thyestes Chase
Gowran Park is a turf racecourse in the Annely (Demesne) estate just outside the village of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, about 13km east of Kilkenny city. It first staged racing on 16 June 1914 and is a dual-purpose course, running both Flat and National Hunt meetings, with around 17-19 fixtures a year. The circuit is a right-handed oval of roughly a mile and a half, with notable undulations and a testing three-furlong uphill home straight that suits galloping, prominent-ridden types. Its best-known meeting is the January card built around the Goffs Thyestes Chase, a long-established staying handicap chase regarded as a key trial for the Irish and English Grand Nationals. The same fixture includes the Grade 2 Galmoy Hurdle, and the autumn and spring cards feature further graded jumps and Flat black-type races.
The track
Right-handed · TurfRight-handed undulating oval of about 1m4f with a testing three-furlong uphill home straight.
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