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Cork Racecourse is both a flat and National Hunt racecourse located in Mallow, Ireland. While the course is normally well-attended by locals, you can watch a Cork Racing live stream free of any subscription costs.

Read on to find out how you can see every one of the races shown live from Cork.

You can also watch replays of all UK and Irish races covered by Racing TV and At The Races for free on their Horse Racing Archive at bet365.

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Since its opening in 1924, Cork’s popularity is such that many routinely visit the course all year round to make the most of the good quality racing on offer.

The track is also host to the Easter Festival, a three day meeting which brings in record crowds on a yearly basis; It is the most popular time for the racecourse.

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The flat course is a distance of twelve furlongs and is in the shape of an oval. Therefore the track can host the vast majority of flat races all the way up to 1m6f.

The Cork Course

The course also has an additional two furlong straight attached which enables six furlong and seven furlong races to be purely races on a home straight. This was built in 2017 and makes the course only the second track in Ireland that is able to host such races.

The bends on the track are relatively sharp, which means that races over seven furlongs often have a slight bias towards the lower inside draw as there is less distance to travel and horses can swoop off the bend and use the rail to guide them over the line.

The course can  often favour the front running types as the way the race often pans out means that those caught in behind don’t have enough time or energy to latch on to the pace.

The National Hunt course is a track that many are fond of due to how meetings there rarely get abandoned, even in the winter months. The track is besides a river so when downpour is excessive then it can lead to the course becoming flooded.

However, over time the silt has worn into the track and made it quite drainable due to the sand. This means that even when water does land on the surface, it does become absorbed or filter away quite quickly.

The course itself is also a right-handed oval shaped course. The track itself is incredibly flat, with those who can keep up a fast gallop often benefitting from how the track is structured as they benefit from the extensive stretches of flat, clean grass.

However, the bias to gallopers is not significant and all in all it is an incredibly fair track. Although there are no uphill or downhill patches, the course does take a fair bit of riding from the jockeys.

This is due to how frequent the fences are on both the back straight and the home straight, four on the back and three coming up to the finishing line.

The bends on both the hurdles and chase circuits are incredibly wide and, when there are a reasonable amount of runners, a good few gaps frequently open up – it would be a surprise for owners and jockeys to justify a loss with getting caught in behind on the bends.

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Cork hosts several notable races throughout the year, the most noteworthy being The Hilly Way Chase. The steeplechase is usually run in December and is open for five-year-olds and older.

The race is a Grade 2 contest and is run over a two mile trip, currently the race is under sponsorship by the Kerry Group, an Irish food company. In 2019, there were just three runners, Ballyoisin, Great Field and Cilaos Emery.

The latter returned an emphatic victory at 4/5 odds, the winner had Ballyoisin seven lengths behind and they were the only two to finish as Great Field unseated four from home. Cilaos Emery went on to finish fourth in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham three months later.

Cork is well worth a visit no matter where you are in the country, the venue is everything you’d expect from a traditional track but with its modern day twists.

The parade ring has huge viewing areas for fans to gather round and take their pick, as well as easy access to the winner’s enclosure to watch jockeys and owners collect their prizes.

Cork is picturesque, traditional and a great day out for friends and family.

Here’s the ideal way to get ready for the Cork racing live stream. Watch this video which shows the finish to all the races on an exciting days National Hunt Racing in November, 2017.

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