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The crowds flocked to Ballinrobe Racecourse for its first meeting of the year and the course committee will be hoping for another successful meeting this coming Monday and Tuesday, May 30 and 31, in what is the 90th anniversary of the Mayo track.

Ireland’s number one horse feed manufacturer, Connolly’s Red Mills, has announced that it is to sponsor the Thyestes Chase, one of Ireland’s premier National Huntraces. The Connolly’s Red Mills Thyestes Chase will take place in Gowran Park on Thursday, January 20, where Ireland’s top racehorses will compete for a €90,000 prize fund.

Ballybrit Racecourse will play host to two days of National Hunt racing this Bank Holiday weekend as the October Galway Races get under way on Sunday. The Galway Advertiser will be giving away some pairs of tickets to the meeting in conjunction with the Galway Race Committee and Renvyle House Hotel who are sponsoring a race at Ballybrit on Sunday.

The Autumn meeting of the Galway Races begins this Saturday August 28 for three days. One of the highlights of the racing festival will be the Ardilaun Hotel-listed Oyster Stakes,which is now in its nineteenth year, takes place on the last day of the races, Monday August 30. The Ryan family of the Ardilaun Hotel first became associated with this prestigious race in 1991 and have continued their support over the years.

The greatest party anywhere in the eurozone is almost upon us and whether one deals in euros, sterling, dollars, or the Japanese yen all roads will lead to Ballybrit on Monday next as the seven-day marathon that is the Galway Race Week Festival gets under way shortly after five o clock. With more than fifty races on the menu punters will need to tread carefully through a minefield of tough maximum field handicaps and conditions contests under both Flat and National Hunt rules and with margins tight in all walks of life selective punting is advised.

The Galway Races are such an intrinsic part of the local as well as national culture, it seems like they have been taking place forever. For many people the Galway Races are the event to go to and they are looking forward to it all year long. To some the main attraction of the event is the old friends and new people you get to meet, to others it’s the atmosphere of excitement and glamour, and to others still it’s the very passion for watching horses race and perhaps engage in a little betting. Although the first Ballybrit race meeting, lasting two days, took place in 1869, a lot has changed since.

Horse Racing Ireland announced today that an additional national hunt race meeting has been added to the existing Gowran Park Racing Calendar which will take place on Saturday, March 21, 2009.

If you still haven’t got over the last attack of horse racing betting fever, well now’s your chance to get it out of your system as the Autumn meeting of the Galway Races has begun.

The Tendrleen Thyestes Handicap Steeplechase was the source of great excitement in homes, businesses and at the racetrack in Kilkenny’s Gowran Park yesterday when the horse with only an outside chance of winning took home the grand prize.

Despite the present economic crisis, thousands of Irish people flocked to Cheltenham for the four-day festival that concludes today.