Horse Racing Ireland has released its full Flat programme for June and its July fixture list.
The release included news of the Galway Festival, which will be run on its original dates of July 27 to August 2 but with some changes. The opening two days and the final two days of the meeting will feature Flat racing only, with National Hunt racing on the three cards in between.
Racing in Ireland resumes on June 8 with a meeting at Naas.
Jason Morris, HRI's director of racing, said, “We recognise that there will be a large demand for opportunities to run and our aim is to provide all Flat horses with their first run as quickly as possible following the resumption of racing by offering a balanced programme across all age groups, distances and categories. There will be 53 Flat meetings up to the end of July with this objective in mind. There will also be 22 National Hunt fixtures programmed between June 22 and the end of July, compared to the equivalent of 17 meetings in the same period last year, to cater for the demands of the jumps horse population. There will be eight-race cards run at every opportunity where stable capacity allows, with the protocols requiring one stable per horse for hygiene reasons.”
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