Irish Champion Hurdle Weekend

[granger]

Two days of racing finalised

 

[Diamond Geezer]

What date(s) is this scheduled on ?

 

[granger]

3rd and 4th December

Very nice prizemoney

 

[Grasshopper]

I sincerely hope you mean February, PJ!!

 

[Grey]

Me too, Grassy

The prize money is so decent that the €150k for the Irish Champion Hurdle looks too low relative to some of the other races. Overall the package should capture the imagination of a lot of people.

 

[wilsonl]

Should we be calling it Irish Champion Hurdle weekend now the Irish Gold Cup is run the same weekend and is worth €50k more ?

 

[granger]

My bad gents and gals

 

[Perpetual]

What a fantastic weekend of racing and could be enough to tempt me over...

 

[wilsonl]

Great initiative and helps towards balancing the season out too. End of season festivals are fine but by and large there was a void to be filled between Christmas and March (bar the odd decent Saturday).

 

[Grasshopper]

4/6 there are no UK raiders in any of the hugely-valuable novice events.

1/5 UK trainers will be complaining about lack of opportunities for their Festival novices at around the same time.

 

[granger]

It is strange how they tend to just ignore the generous prize money frequently

Surely a few owners out there who want to try the black stuff over here

 

[Ivantheterrible]

First time over the water for me racing wise.

Had the flights booked a couple of months ago.

Moist already.

(Update: Complete lie. I had 3 days at the Galway festival in the late 90s. For the life of me I can't remember a bloody thing about it....)

 

[Grasshopper]

Myself, Digger and one-time, TRF-famed, foul-mouthed eejit Golden Cygnet (aka Sharkey), will be over for both days of the meeting.

Looking forward to meeting-up with the usual collection of misanthropes and curmudgeons.

 

[edgt]

Also will be climax of TH National Hunt tipping competition for the Tjukurrpa Trophy.
(Sure that made all the difference for the Sponsors to step up to the plate)

 

[granger]

I'm off to Sri Lanka on the Monday post racing - a sizable holiday kitty will be sought after over the 2 days

 

[Grasshopper]

Business or pleasure?

 

[granger]

Work only ever send me to business shi*holes - this one is all pleasure

 

[Grasshopper]

I was married in Waduwwa about 30 minutes south of Colombo - you should visit the shrine, if you're in the neighbourhood. :lol:

 

[granger]

I'll ensure the locals that their saviour is alive and well

 

[Perpetual]

Couldn't swing the whole weekend, but flights now booked for the Saturday

 

[Grasshopper]

Nice one, Perp.

 

[Grey]

It should be a great weekend, see you there.

 

[edgt]

Will be great to see you Ben.
If the bonus tickets with Annual Membership are good for weekend your name is definitely on one.

 

[Perpetual]

Top man Eddie and either way I'll get you a beer!

 

[an capall]

The birds were chirping loudly at 6.30AM* today and the first weekend in Feb is coming fast and tickets for Leopardstown are being arranged.

Springtime. Can you feel it?

(* Thought I could also hear Slim singing his way home to bed when I got to Donnybrook. Might just have been a bag of cats.)