04 Irish Racing / Betfair Education / 04 February 2009 / Leave a comment

Racing in the area was originally held on a nearby beach and records show meetings taking place since the 1780s.

The present course has been used since 1911 but a brand new course is under development at the nearby Lisselan, and is expected to open in the next year or two.

The highlight of the year at Tramore is the four day mid-August festival and usually attracts good fields and good crowds. The right handed undulating course is quite small at just over seven furlongs and is somewhat square in shape. The bends are difficult and many horses find it hard to perform here. Indeed, course clerk Paddy Graffan once stated that 'if you can keep a horse balanced round here, Epsom's easy!'

There are five fences to a circuit on the chase course. There are no significant draw statistics on the flat.

With 13 winners from 25 races in the past five years (52%), John Oxx trained horses simply must be noted here and have shown a decent profit thus far if blindly followed. At 28%, Joanna Morgan also has a very good record and healthy profit to level stakes when followed.

The jockey to note here is Fran Berry, who shows a win rate of nearly 44% and a fantastic profit of around £450 to £10 stakes over the past five years. On the jumps, Ruby Walsh wins one race in four on average, and following him has broken even to level stakes.

At 35%, flat favourites perform quite well here and have shown a very small profit to level stakes over the past five years. Indeed, flat maiden favourites have a fantastic strike-rate of 50%, and show a reasonable profit to boot. Jumps favourites don't perform so well at just over 30%.

Previous course winners have a 10.8% strike-rate on their return on the flat, with that figure slightly higher over jumps at 12.67%.