Kilbeggan Racecourse

Kilbeggan Racecourse is a horse racing venue in Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Ireland. The first recording of racing in the Kilbeggan area was in March 1840. The course is located 13 miles from the nearest, larger town of Mullingar and 57 miles from the capital city of Dublin. The presence of the M6 motorway means that the course is reachable from Dublin in approximately 1 hour.

The course is a right-handed, undulating course of one mile and one furlong with an uphill run to the finish.^[1]

References

↑ "Course Profile". Go Racing. Retrieved 13 November 2012.

External links

Horseracing in Ireland

Venues

National Hunt	Kilbeggan Punchestown

Flat	The Curragh Dundalk Laytown

Mixed	Ballinrobe Ballybrit (Galway) Clonmel Cork Down Royal Downpatrick Fairyhouse Gowran Park Killarney Leopardstown Listowel Limerick Navan Naas Roscommon Sligo Thurles Tipperary Tramore Wexford

Former Venues	Greenpark Phoenix Park Baldoyle

Named races

Regulation

Horse Racing Ireland

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