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Horse and Jockey (Irish: An Marcach) [1] is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It lies on the R639 road , where it meets the N62 road to Thurles . It lies just off junction 6 of the M8 motorway , which by-passed the village in December 2008.
The Kinloch Brae Chase, currently run as the Horse & Jockey Hotel Chase, is a Grade 2 National Hunt steeplechase in Ireland. It is run at Thurles Racecourse in late January or early February, over a distance of about 2 miles and 4½ furlongs (2 miles 4 furlongs and 118 yards, or 4,131 metres) and during its running there are 14 fences to be jumped.
Leopardstown Racecourse is a horse-racing course in Leopardstown, approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Dublin city centre, in Ireland. Like the majority of Irish courses, it hosts both National Hunt and Flat racing.
Dublin postal districts have been used by Ireland's postal service, known as An Post, to sort mail in Dublin. The system is similar to that used in cities in Europe and North America until they adopted national postal code systems in the 1960s and 1970s.
Plans for the hotel were approved by Bensalem Township Council on March 13, 2023. [22] As of October 2023, construction on the Parx Casino Hotel is on hold. On June 24, 2024, Parx announced that it has purchased the Inn at Fox Chase, a 167-room hotel adjacent to the casino, which it plans to renovate and rebrand within the next year. [23]
The first racing festival held in Ballybrit was a two-day event with the first race meeting on Tuesday, 17 August 1869. The summer festival was extended to a 3-day meeting in 1959, 4 days in 1971, 5 days in 1974, 6 days in 1982 and, most recently to, 7 days in 1999.
A horse show is an event taking place over days or weeks, comprising competitions and displays in equestrian sports. These are lists of notable horse shows by country or geographical area. Australia
The name "Curragh" comes from the Irish language word Cuirreach, meaning "place of the running horse". [1] The first recorded race on the plain took place in 1727, but it was used for races before then. [2] The first Derby was held in 1866, [3] and in 1868 the Curragh was officially declared a horse racing and training facility by act of ...