Leopardstown hosts some of the biggest flat and jumps races on the Irish calendar, and opened its doors in 1888.
With the closure if the Phoenix Park racecourse some years back, Leopardstown is the only racing venue left in Dublin (sadly). The course design was loosely based on England's Sandown Park, and the highlight of the year is the Christmas festival which lasts for four days. Leopardstown is a left-handed, fairly wide course and is roughly a mile and six furlongs in distance. The fences in the back straight are positioned close together and inexperienced horses can often be caught out. On the flat, no obvious draw bias exists.
As Leopardstown hosts some of Ireland's top flat races, it's unsurprising to see Aidan O'Brien up there as the top trainer in the past five years, with a strike-rate of nearly 24%. Had you backed each horse blindly, you would have broken even to level stakes. Jockey wise, both Jamie Spencer and Nina Carberry boast strike rates of over 20% with Tony McCoy not far behind at 19%.
At just over 38%, National Hunt favourites have one of the best records in Ireland here. In fact, had you backed each jumps jolly over the past five years, you would show a profit of nearly 27 points to level stakes. On the flat, their strike-rate is significantly lower at 31.5%.
Previous course winners have a 10.1% strike-rate when they return on the flat. That figure is slightly higher over jumps at 13.3%.