Remodelled Curragh must boost spectator appeal or risk venue becoming white elephant via IrishTimesSport
Whether that continues to be the case when the Guineas Festival kicks off this evening remains to be seen. A positive weather outlook, combined with the prospect of genuinely top-class action, might provoke a surge, although it would be an upswing from a low base.
This is in a venue originally supposed to cater for up to 30,000 — a figure disputed by the current Curragh management — with capacity in the grandstand alone for up to 13,000 customers. It was also a first post-pandemic Guineas so in the context of other sports benefiting from resurgent fan interest.The track’s two biggest days of the season are the Derby and its leg of Champions Weekend, which last year produced official attendances of 11,300 and 6,700 respectively.
As with every other track, the real financial action is off-course. Those ponying up media rights money probably won’t have much change from a quarter of a million euros for the three Guineas Festival fixtures alone. Gate revenue pales in comparison. Closer to home, so too does Punchestown, which had more than 120,000 racegoers through its five-day festival last month: 35,334 went on the Friday alone. That was actually down more than 5,500 on a year previously. Presumably, a lot of them were the same locals who drive past the Curragh.
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