Tipperary set for ‘mind-blowing’ track

IRELAND could have a new state-of-the-art racecourse by the spring of 2013.

Tipperary set for ‘mind-blowing’ track
Wed, 28 Oct, 2009 - 00:00
Pat Keane

The course, which will be based on an 800 acre site close to the Tipperary village of Two-Mile-Borris, will include both a National Hunt track and an all-weather flood-lit surface and will form part of a massive €460m investment announced at the Horse and Jockey Hotel near Thurles yesterday.

It is envisaged that it will be a Grade 1 track and also due to be built is a Premier greyhound facility on what will be called The Tipperary Venue.

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