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Wexford Racecourse

horse racing venue in the Republic of Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2022
Entity authorityQ16955429 ↗
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Wexford Racecourse is a horse racing venue in the town of Wexford, Ireland which stages National Hunt racing. The earliest record of racing in the area is in the 1870s.

The course formerly staged Flat racing as well as National Hunt but on 1 June 2016 it was announced that with immediate effect Flat racing would be discontinued. This followed the track being switched from right-handed to left-handed in 2015.

The course is an undulating left-handed course of one mile and two furlongs.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wexford, Racecourse and horse can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wexford Racecourse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.