The racecourse at Navan first opened in 1920, and was originally known as Proudstown Park.
Recent times have seen plenty of investment in facilities - and there's usually decent prizemoney on offer, thus attracting many top horses. While it hosts plenty of flat racing, it's mainly known for its national hunt meetings, especially in the latter months of the year. The course itself is a left-handed, rectangular shape of roughly one mile and four furlongs in distance. There is a straight course of around six furlongs which meets the main track at the entrance to the straight. There is a fairly stiff, uphill finish which can become very testing on soft or heavy ground. The chase course has nine fences to a circuit. In flat sprints, lower to middle drawn horses have shown an advantage in recent years.
Once again, it's Aidan O'Brien who shows the best record here in recent years at 28%, and a profit to level stakes if blindly backed. A jockey to note here is Nina Carberry, who shows a strike-rate of over 34%, and has also proved profitable to follow.
Favourites perform quite well here at 35% and 37% on the flat and jumps respectively. In the past five years, non-handicap flat favourites have performed particularly well with a strike-rate of 44.4% and a small profit to level stakes.
Previous course winners are noteworthy on their return, with 16.1% going on to win on the flat and a show a profit to level stakes. That figure is slightly lower over jumps at 14.9% and shows a significant loss if blindly followed.