There was a time when this weekend was the centrepiece of the Irish Turf Club’s world. The Irish Derby meeting was run at their headquarters, at a venue they controlled and lorded over in front of a packed house on the plains alongside the M7.
Newbridge and Kildare Town ground to a halt for the weekend, and those in the old Turf Club rooms above the weigh room surveyed the masses with a wry smile at the health of their product.
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