A mixed venue, with flat and National Hunt, Cork recently installed a seven-furlong straight track due opening in 2019. The chase course is on the outside, hurdles and flat on the rest of it. On the banks of a river, Cork can get quite dry in the summer and wet in the winter but they do a good job to manage it as it’s not an easy racecourse to look after. It can flood quite regularly, a bit like Worcester in England, and with four fences in the back straight and three in the home straight it stages a lot of racing. Cork is a fair, fast, dead level right-handed track. If you were drawing a racecourse you would draw Cork.
