The,History,Curragh,Racecourse sports The History Of The Curragh Racecourse
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The five and six furlongs are straight and an adjoining chute feeds into the home straight, which stages races of up to one mile. The home of Irish flat racing, the 'Curragh' means 'place of the running horse', and the very first race there is recorded to have been in 1727, but chariot racing has been documented as occurring there as early as the third century. The first ever Irish Derby took place there in 1866 and ever since then the majority of Irish flat racing has taken place at the Curragh. The 1868 Curragh of Kildare Act settled the right of common pasture and preserved the use of the Curragh for the purposes of horse racing and training. The Act defined the area of the Curragh as being 4870 acres and the management of it was handed over to a dedicated ranger. In 1870 the Act was updated to specify that only sheep could be grazed on the Curragh while the 1921 treaty saw the lands being passed over from the British crown to the minister for finance, and then onto the minister for defence who now administers the lands. In 1961 Act went on to allow the enclosure of some of the Curragh and sheep were no longer allowed to graze on the land and 1964 saw bye laws being introduced which further regulated the use and management of the Curragh.The home of Irish flat racing and the largest horse training centre in the country, the Curragh has been host to all the great names in racing such as Alamshar, Galileo, and High Chaparral. And who could forget the famous but ill-fated Shergar? The Curragh is also a world-renowned training centre and numerous stud farms, including the National stud have developed on the Curragh's fringes. It is estimated that twenty-six percent of all the horses trained in Ireland are trained on the Curragh and many of the horses trained there have gone on to win major races worldwide. Prime examples are Vintage Crop and Media Puzzle who won the Melbourne Cup in 1993 and 2002 respectively and were both trained on the Curragh by Dermot Weld. Other recent Curragh success stories are world champion Sea The Stars, Sinndar who won the Epsom Derby, Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace and the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Davy Lady.The Curragh hosts the majority of top Irish flat races, with nineteen race meetings from March to October, including all five of the Irish classics: the Darley Irish Oaks, Boylesports Irish 1000, the 2000 Guineas and The Irish Field St Leger as well as many more great races. One of the reasons why the racecourse is so good for flat racing is the fact that it has excellent drainage - one of the many reasons why it has been used for horse racing for hundreds of years and more than likely will continue to do so for many more. There has been a much-heralded redevelopment plan for the Curragh, announced in February 2006 with the Aga Khan aiding the project by gifting the nearby Strand House Hotel to the Turf Club. The building work was originally due to finish in the summer of 2008 but unfortunately nothing has yet been done - we can but wait and see! Article Tags: Irish Flat Racing, Irish Flat, Flat Racing
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