Tweet Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Naas Racecourse Business Club Spotlight Series! As anticipation mounts in Naas town with the approach of the Punchestown Festival we thought now would be the perfect time to start our Naas Racecourse Business Club Spotlight Series. The series aims to shine a light on different members of the Business Club throughout the year, celebrating their contribution to the racecourse and locality. And what better way to kickstart this journey than by sitting down with Alicia Farragher, the esteemed pub manager of Kavanaghs Naas, as we gear up for an electrif ..read more

Tweet Naas Racecourse is gearing up for a day of celebration as the course marks a century of racing excellence on Sunday, 19th May for their Royal Ascot Trials Day, and everyone is invited to come racing for free and join in the festivities at a special Centenary Raceday. Royal Ascot Trials Day is Naas Racecourse’s pinnacle flat card of the season, boasting two Group Three races in the Goffs Lacken Stakes and The Coolmore Stud EBF Fillies Sprint Stakes that can produce hot contenders for the Royal festival across the Irish Sea in June. This year’s event takes on added significance as it serve ..read more

Tweet Naas Racecourse will host an additional seven race National Hunt card next Tuesday with racegoers able to attend free of charge courtesy of the Irish National Professional Bookmakers Association.  Following the recent spell of heavy rain and a number of cancelled fixtures, Naas will stage the card to afford opportunities to a number of horses which have missed out on recent planned engagements due to the weather.  The card will feature two maiden hurdles, four handicap hurdles and a bumper with the first race on the card due to go off at 1.30pm. The Irish National Professional ..read more

Tweet One of Europe’s most lucrative juvenile races has once again attracted an initial entry of over 300 horses as the Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes at Naas Racecourse continues to garner the attention of trainers and owners on both sides of the Irish Sea and beyond. Now in its fifth year, the Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes has already offered well in excess of €1m in total prize money and the race is firmly established in the calendar as a marquee race for two-year-olds.  The Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes is for two year old horses only that are EBF eligible and whose sire established one or more ..read more

Tweet We are delighted to welcome back Micheál Orlandi of Compass Stallions to sponsor for the fourth year here at Naas Racecourse. Starfield Stud is based in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath and is home to stallions such as Dubawi Legend, Kuroshio, King of Change, Far Above & more. We caught up with Micheál for a quick Q&A ahead of his sponsorship of 3 races on our opening meeting of the flat season this Sunday. What is your background in the game? I’ve no background in the industry really but I suppose I must mention my first pony, Scoobie. He had a big part to play! How many stallions curre ..read more

Tweet Flat racing returns to Naas Racecourse on Sunday with the Irish Racing Writers Cliff Noone Memorial Madrid Handicap one of the feature races.  The seven furlong contest was famously won by the Aidan O’Brien-trained Paddington on his path to a memorable season with multiple Group 1 success following his seasonal debut at Naas.  O’Brien will be represented by top weight Military who won his maiden at Naas last season before finishing placed in Group 3 company after that.  Opposition to Military will come from 11 rivals with O’Brien’s two sons saddling runners. Joseph O’Brien ..read more

Tweet We are delighted to welcome back Micheál Orlandi of Compass Stallions to sponsor for the fourth year here at Naas Racecourse. Starfield Stud is based in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath and is home to stallions such as Dubawi Legend, Kuroshio, King of Change,  Far Above & more. We caught up with Micheal for a quick Q&A ahead of his sponsorship of 3 races on our opening meeting of the flat season this Sunday. What is your background in the game? I’ve no background in the industry really but I suppose I must mention my first pony, Scoobie. He had a big part to play! How many stallions ..read more

Tweet We caught up with our Naas RC sponsored jockey Jody Townend for a Q & A at the peak of the National Hunt season.  1) Growing up, who was your sporting hero? Nina Carberry without a doubt! 2) If you weren’t a jockey, what would you be? Probably a show jumper, I try and do a bit of it during the summer months still. Definitely something to do with horses anyhow. 3) What is your favourite track to ride at? Tramore, iv had a lot of luck around there. 4) How did you manage your recovery following breaking your back in 2018? I just took one day at a time as I had so many setbacks, the ..read more

Tweet Iconic. Prestigious. Valuable. The Leinster National is coming up on Sunday March 10th. It will be year three of our five-year sponsorship and, once again, we are delighted to be involved with Naas and this special race. This year’s renewal will again carry prize money of €100,000 and will form the centrepiece of a card that will also contain two Grade 3 contests. Hot on Naas’s heels will be the Cheltenham Festival, which will begin two days later, on Tuesday March 12th. Four days of high-class and competitive racing at Prestbury Park will, once again, grip the sporting community like no ..read more

Tweet After a successful partnership last season TRM Equine Nutrition, Europe’s largest manufacturer and distributor of nutritional feed supplements and general healthcare products for horses, has announced they will be returning to Naas Racecourse to once again sponsor six races throughout the upcoming flat season. The continued sponsorship was announced Tuesday morning at Michael O’Callaghan’s stables. TRM treated all staff to breakfast to celebrate them being the yard that topped the league for the most Best-Turned-Out Awards throughout last season at the county Kildare track. At the l ..read more