Kilbeggan Races to kick-start the Bank Holiday weekend

Kilbeggan Races kicks-off the Bank Holiday weekend with its first race meeting of the year this evening (first race: 5.15pm).

The other seven meetings of the year are scheduled for Friday, May 17; Saturday, June 2; Monday, June 24; Friday, July 19; Saturday, August 10,; Friday, August 23; and Friday, September 6.

Kilbeggan Race Committee has invested around €300,000 on building an additional 54 new stables, a new concourse area for parking horse lorries and improvement to the race track.

Paddy Dunican, Manager, said: “We are delighted with the new additional stables. Leamore Construction did a superb job on building the new block. We now have a total of 110 stables with a stable for each horse running on the day. 2012 was a great year at Kilbeggan with great racing and a significant increase in the number of people attending over the year. We are looking forward to our new season with eight race meetings planned from now until September.”

Friday’s card  includes three sponsored races - the Sean Hughes Memorial Mullingar Park Hotel handicap chase (over 3 miles, 1 furlong) is sponsored by Mullingar Park Hotel and was won by Liberty Counsel last year; the Greville Arms Hotel is sponsoring a handicap hurdle; and the European Breeders Fund is sponsoring the novice chase.