Punchestown Racecourse
The home of Irish jump racing, in Co. Kildare.
Punchestown Racecourse sits in the parish of Eadestown, roughly 5 km south of Naas in Co. Kildare and about 35 km south-west of Dublin. It is widely regarded as the home of Irish National Hunt racing, staging jumps fixtures across the season on a right-handed, undulating turf track. The hurdle course runs about one mile six furlongs and the steeplechase course about two miles. Punchestown is unusual in retaining the only cross-country banks course in Ireland, a nod to its origins in the hunting traditions of the Kildare Hunt Club. Its showpiece is the five-day Punchestown Festival each spring, the climax of the Irish jumps calendar, headed by the Grade 1 Punchestown Gold Cup and Champion Chase. The first recorded meeting dates to the mid-19th century.
The track
Right-handed · TurfRight-handed, undulating turf jumps track, and the only cross-country banks course in Ireland.
Form, draw and going analysis for Punchestown is on the way. We are building a clean Irish results dataset and will publish the numbers here once it is complete.
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