The Curragh Course Guide
The Curragh is the most important racecourse in Ireland for thoroughbred racing. It has recently undergone an exciting redevelopment with facilities to match anything worldwide.
Highlights: Home of the Irish 1,000 & 2,000 Guineas, along with the Irish Derby, Irish Oaks & Irish St. Leger. The Irish Classics are five of the eleven Group 1 races staged at the Curragh throughout their season from May through to November.
The other Group 1 races are the Tattersalls Gold Cup, Irish Pretty Polly Stakes, Phoenix Stakes, Moyglare Stud Stakes, Flying Five Stakes and National Stakes.
Also featured at the Curragh racecourse are some big handicaps with the Irish Lincoln, Irish Cesarewitch and the Irish Cambridgeshire.
Also noteworthy is the Group 2 Greenlands Stakes, which is run at the Irish Guineas Festival, as is the Emerald Mile Handicap, a valuable premier handicap run over a mile.
Plan your day’s racing or betting by checking out their website. You’ll get all the information you need for all the big race days and festivals taking place at The Curragh.
TV Channel: Racing TV
If you are going to the Curragh races today, then why not download the OLBG app to get all the latest Curragh tips at the track?
* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Curragh
Curragh Outright Favourite Statistics
- Flat Handicaps: 68-344 (20%) -57.75
- Flat Non-Handicaps: 94-239 (39%) -6.29
Curragh Racecourse Map
Flat: The Curragh is a right-handed horseshoe-shaped course with a circuit of two miles, with no sharp bends and a straight run-in of three furlongs uphill. The Curragh includes a straight mile course and two round courses; it is a very fair galloping track.
Curragh Racecourse Address: Newbridge, Co. Kildare, R56 RR67, Ireland
Curragh Racecourse Telephone: 45 441 205
To buy tickets for a race day at Curragh, head over to their official ticket booking webpage.
Irish Champions Festival
Sunday at the Irish Champions Festival
The Sunday of the Irish Champions Festival is hosted at the Curragh with four Group 1 races, the highlight being the Irish St Leger. Aidan has not been as dominant in this, with just seven wins, two behind both Vincent O'Brien and Dermot Weld.
| Race | Last Winner | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Blandford Stakes | Barnavara (IRE) 3yo - 6/1 | Mrs John Harrington Shane Foley |
| Bold Lad Sprint Handicap | Tango Flare (IRE) 6yo - 50/1 | Patrick T Foley Luke McAteer |
| Flying Five Stakes | Arizona Blaze (GB) 3yo - 11/2 | Adrian Murray David Egan |
| Irish St Leger | Al Riffa (FR) 5yo - 3/1 | Joseph Patrick O'Brien Dylan Browne McMonagle |
| Moyglare Stud Stakes | Precise (IRE) 2yo - 11/2 | A P O'Brien Ronan Whelan |
| National Stakes | Zavateri (IRE) 2yo - 15/2 | Eve Johnson Houghton Charles Bishop |
| Northfields Handicap | Shaool (IRE) 4yo - 11/2 | J P Murtagh Ben Coen |
What’s the best way of using these betting tips from the Curragh?
You’ll see a list of times for the races and the runners on the card at the Curragh, with the most popular tipped horses highlighted for your convenience.
You’ll also be able to view the latest betting odds for each selection alongside some information from the OLBG tipsters on why they have chosen that particular horse.
You’ll also have available to you the number of tips made on a particular selection represented in numerical & percentage form.
There’s a useful star rating which is created using the popularity of the tip and the current odds. The data is extremely useful and can change as more tips come in for each race.
If you like the look of a particular runner and tipster, you can click on the bubble to read the comments made for that Curragh runner, or you can also view all the runners, tips and comments by clicking on the right-hand side of the screen.
A great feature for punters is the ‘Add To Betslip' feature. As you would on an online bookmaker’s site, you add your selections.
Build your OLBG betslip to view the best odds for your Curragh bets using our price comparison feature. So handy to use and you’re ensuring you’re getting the best betting price!
If there are currently no tips for the Curragh because of no meeting, head over to the main racing predictions page for picks from other courses today.
How to use the Curragh betting tips
It’s up to you how you want to use these Curragh betting tips to your advantage. You can use all of the elements highlighted above, such as the most popular Curragh tips today, the most profitable Curragh tipsters or the star rating to see the most valuable tips from the Curragh.
You may be happy with a particular betting app or online service, but it might not be the best offer for today’s racing at The Curragh. It would be an idea to check out an in-depth report as to who the best bookmakers for horse racing are, and ensure you have an account with one of them.
Having access to the best betting odds when betting at The Curragh can mean the difference between profit and loss.
Curragh Draw Bias
✅ With an LSP of +79.25, the most successful stall at Curragh is stall 5 when backing runners over a trip of 6f over the last five years.
❌ With an LSP of -139.80, the most unsuccessful stall at Curragh is stall 10 when backing runners over a trip of 6f over the last five years.
Here we have the draw bias for Curragh taken into consideration in races with ten or more runners. We will break down the figures by race trips. Draws can be much more important in shorter trips, where runners do not have time to find their position during the race, meaning the draw is probably more important than in races over longer distances.
- Sprints (5f to 7½f)
- Mile (1m to 1m1½f)
- Middle Distance (1m2f to 1m5½f)
The following table shows a breakdown of a group of trips and shows how each position of the draw does, for example, in a twelve-runner race would be Low (Stalls 1-4), Mid (Stalls 5-8) and High (Stalls 9-12). The positions will always be the lowest stall number to the highest.
Curragh Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Curragh?
A P O'Brien is the leading trainer here at Curragh with one hundred sixty-four winners, but you would have recorded a loss if you backed all of their runners, whilst following J A Stack would have returned the most winners (sixteen) from a profitable trainer. If you are more of an eachway player, then you may want to know which trainer is best to follow at Curragh, and that would be Charles O'Brien, who shows the best eachway LSP, which is +47.41, thanks to their twenty placings (eight winners). With an LSP of -216.29 at Curragh, Mrs John Harrington heads the list for worst trainers at this course, which is a result of forty-three winners from five hundred fifty-seven runners, which is a strike rate of 8%.
Whilst Ryan Moore is the most successful jockey at Curragh with a total of one hundred thirteen winners, if you backed all of their rides, you would be showing a loss. L F Roche is the most successful jockey at Curragh for those who show a profit if backing all their rides, thanks to a total of sixteen winners and an LSP of +27.87. If you are looking for a jockey to follow in the eachway market, then it is H J Horgan who leads the way at Curragh. They have had a total of six placings, which includes two winners for an eachway LSP of +60.72. The jockey with the worst record at Curragh based on LSP is Ben M Coen, who has only an 8% strike rate with thirty-six winners from four hundred seventy-one rides, which have returned an LSP of -230.42.
Curragh Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Curragh for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 50-119 (42%) +33.37 - Backing Ryan Moore rides when in a Maiden race
Curragh Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations at Curragh based on the number of winners:
- 106 Wins: A P O'Brien & Ryan Moore
- 40 Wins: Joseph Patrick O'Brien & Dylan B McMonagle
- 39 Wins: G M Lyons & C T Keane
- 33 Wins: Mrs John Harrington & Shane Foley
- 31 Wins: J P Murtagh & Ben M Coen
Curragh Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| J A Stack | 185-16-49 | +1.38 | -21.43 |
| Edward Lynam | 173-14-42 | +10.25 | -8.44 |
| M C Grassick | 151-14-28 | +20.50 | +2.45 |
| Andrew Oliver | 132-10-28 | +95.88 | +41.39 |
| Charles O'Brien | 65-8-20 | +56.46 | +47.41 |
| Tracey / Halford Collins | 68-6-14 | +9.00 | -5.62 |
| Gerard Keane | 48-5-9 | +2.00 | -9.00 |
| T D Easterby | 10-5-5 | +5.50 | +1.33 |
| A J Martin | 55-4-8 | +5.50 | -13.24 |
| John O'Donoghue | 50-4-8 | +30.00 | +2.60 |
Curragh Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| L F Roche | 246-16-54 | +27.87 | +10.64 |
| R M Mulligan | 41-6-11 | +34.50 | +18.80 |
| Sam Ewing | 48-4-10 | +11.33 | +2.08 |
| William Buick | 12-4-7 | +4.40 | +3.71 |
| David Allan | 6-4-4 | +6.50 | +3.13 |
| M A Enright | 77-3-12 | +45.50 | +19.43 |
| Oisin Orr | 54-3-11 | +57.50 | +15.66 |
| S Coen | 23-3-5 | +2.00 | +4.14 |
| Miss G Benson | 8-3-5 | +19.50 | +12.32 |
| H J Horgan | 44-2-6 | +112.50 | +60.72 |
With a huge combined experience of horse racing between them, this content has been created and is maintained by Darren Brett, James Banting and Andy Powell.
*All of the data for Curragh Racecourse, which includes the trainer and jockey statistics, has been created using statistics available from HorseRaceBase. The data includes all races throughout the last five years (2021 to 2025).
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