Christmas crackers: The eight Grade One races in Ireland you cannot miss
By Tom Thurgood@tdthurgood
Thu 24 Dec 2020
Shreds of wrapping paper all over the living room? Tea and turkey sandwiches? Contrived laughter from the jokes in suspect Christmas crackers?
Christmas conjures certain immediate memories for all of us and among it all is probably my favourite meeting of the year in the Leopardstown Christmas Festival. What’s not to love about four days of top-class action at Foxrock over the festive period?
There is certainly much to anticipate this year with the Grade One contests for the senior two-mile hurdlers, two-mile chasers and the staying chasers over three miles looking well up to scratch.