Wexford Racecourse

Wexford is a sharp, undulating, left-handed jumps track, roughly rectangular and under nine furlongs round. The turns are tight and the home straight is around two furlongs and slightly uphill, so the course favours speedy, handy, front-running types over galloping stayers, particularly on the hurdle course (set inside the chase course). The chase circuit has six fences, only one of them in the finishing straight. Since the 2015 switch to left-handed, jockeys have reported the uphill finish rides fairer than the old layout.

Racing in the Wexford area dates back to the 1870s, and the modern track on the edge of Wexford town has run jumps and Flat fixtures for much of the 20th century. Its most significant change came in 2015, when the course was reconfigured from right-handed to left-handed, with the winning post moved beyond the stands. Flat racing was discontinued from 1 June 2016, leaving Wexford as a National Hunt (jumps-only) venue. It is a minor track rather than one of Ireland's marquee courses.

Wexford has no Grade 1 or Grade 2 contest and no famous festival; it is a workmanlike fixture track running roughly 8–11 jumps meetings, mostly spring to autumn, including popular summer evening cards. Its one black-type race is the Michael (M.W.) Hickey Memorial Chase, a Listed event run over the late-October Bank Holiday weekend and the course's most valuable race. Past winners include horses who went on to Grade 1 level, but day to day the card is ordinary jumps racing.

Wexford Racecourse sits on the edge of Wexford town in Co. Wexford, in the south-east of Ireland, about 1km from the town centre on the Waterford road, opposite Wexford General Hospital. By road it is reached off the N25, leaving at the New Ross roundabout toward Wexford town. The venue is compact and local in character, with bars, restaurants, mobile food outlets, on-course betting and free parking. It is well known for its summer Friday-evening meetings, which draw sizeable local crowds.