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Brian Kavanagh Named Curragh Chief Executive

Brian Kavanagh, whose 20-year tenure as chief executive officer of Horse Racing Ireland comes to an end upon the conclusion of his latest term in September, will in November take up the role of chief executive officer of The Curragh. Kavanagh takes over from Pat Keogh, who has been in the role since July of 2019.

Padraig McManus, chairman of the board of The Curragh, said, “The board are looking forward to welcoming Brian into his new role as CEO of The Curragh Racecourse and training grounds, and look forward to Brian leading The Curragh as we prepare for racing post-Covid world and growing the world-class training ground facilities here at The Curragh together with the strong, committed team we have already in place.

“We also want to put on record how extremely grateful we are to Pat Keogh for the tremendous job he has done, and his leadership of The Curragh Racecourse and training grounds over the last two years.”

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Curragh To Inspect Ahead Of Guineas

Heavy rain in Ireland in the last 24 hours has left the Curragh racecourse partly waterlogged, forcing a 7.30am inspection on Saturday ahead of the first of two Classic race days this weekend.

The racecourse's chief executive Pat Keogh confirmed that the course is currently unraceable. He said: “We got a lot more rain than we anticipated overnight. We were forecast 15 millimetres at the most in the last 24 hours, and we got 35 millimetres. It's come completely out of left field, unfortunately.”

He added, “The track would not be raceable today. Most of the track is raceable, but there are a few [waterlogged] areas and we will look to get that off the track.

“We're hopeful, but we will have a precautionary inspection tomorrow morning.”

Along with the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, the first of two days of racing is also set to feature three further Group races, while the G1 Irish 1,000 Guineas and G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup is set to be staged on Sunday.

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Voting Open for 2020 The Curragh Awards

The nominees for the 2020 The Curragh Awards were released on Monday. Awards will be given on the Leading Riding Performance, Leading Training Performance and the Horse of the Season. To view the nominees and vote, go to www.curragh.ie/awards until Nov. 22. There will be a virtual award ceremony on Nov. 26 at 8 p.m.

“The Curragh Awards acknowledge the outstanding achievements during 2020 at The Curragh and presents an opportunity for the public to be involved in determining the champions of the season,” said The Curragh CEO Pat Keogh. “Despite the cancellation of the traditional annual awards ceremony at The Curragh due to the Covid-19 pandemic this year, the public can celebrate achievements and join The Curragh for the Virtual Awards.”

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Juddmonte New Sponsor of Irish Oaks

Juddmonte will sponsor the G1 Irish Oaks for the next three years, The Curragh announced via Horse Racing Ireland on Wednesday. The 2020 edition is slated for Saturday, July 18. The distinctive pink, green and white silks have been first past the post three times in the fillies’ Classic-Wemyss Bight (GB) (Dancing Brave) in 1993, Bolas (GB) (Unfuwain) in 1994 and Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) took the 2017 edition. In 2020, Prince Khalid Abdullah’s operation will be represented by homebred fillies G1 bet365 Fillies’ Mile victress Quadrilateral (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and Pocket Square (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}). Both of Aidan O’Brien’s 1000 Guineas winners–Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the English and Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the Irish equivalent–are also set to line up.

“We are very grateful to His Highness Prince Khalid and the team at Juddmonte for their generous support of The Curragh,” said The Curragh Chief Executive Pat Keogh. “These are very challenging times for all of us and having a great name like Juddmonte sponsoring the Irish Oaks is a great vote of confidence for Irish racing. Juddmonte’s global operation has been associated with some of the greatest thoroughbred horses of our time and is synonymous with quality and prestige which connects well to the sponsorship of an Irish Classic race.”

Added Juddmonte Chief Executive Douglas Erskine Crum, “Juddmonte is very supportive of The Curragh and we are delighted to sponsor this prestigious Classic for the first time. We feel strongly that Juddmonte should demonstrate our support and appreciation of Irish racing and breeding.”

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