Wexford Racecourse
Sharp, undulating left-handed jumps track on Wexford Harbour
Wexford Racecourse sits at Bettyville on the Newtown Road, about a kilometre west of Wexford town on the main Waterford road, opposite Wexford General Hospital. The current course opened on 15 October 1951, though racing in the area dates back to the 1870s. Long a dual-purpose venue, it switched from right-handed to left-handed racing in 2015, and Flat racing was discontinued on 1 June 2016, leaving it a National Hunt (jumps) track. The turf circuit is roughly a mile and a quarter, an undulating oval that is sharp with tight turns and a slightly uphill home straight, favouring handy, speedy horses. Its best-known fixture is the Autumn Festival over the October Bank Holiday weekend, headlined by the Listed M.W. Hickey Memorial Chase.
The track
Left-handed · TurfUndulating left-handed oval of about 1 mile 2 furlongs, sharp with tight turns and a slightly uphill finishing straight; six fences to a chase circuit.
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