Laytown Racecourse

Laytown Racecourse is a horse racing venue on the beach at Laytown, County Meath, Ireland. Laytown is unique in the Irish racing calendar as it is the only race event run on a beach under the Rules of Racing. The first recorded race meeting in Laytown was in 1868. The races take place on the strand for one day every September.

The stand course is a straight near-level course over six and seven furlong distances.^[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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