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09 Sept 2025

Seven-race National Hunt card at Clonmel has been cancelled

Significant rainfall has made course unfit for racing

Seven-race National Hunt card will be held at Clonmel Races

The race meeting scheduled for Powerstown Park, Clonmel this afternoon has been cancelled

Horse racing at Clonmel today has been cancelled following an inspection earlier this morning. 

Significant rainfall has made the track unfit for racing. 

"Following a further five millimetres of rain overnight, unfortunately the track is now unfit for racing and the fixture scheduled for today has been cancelled," Clerk of the course Lorcan Wyer said. 

"The extra rain overnight has brought us to 15 millimetres since declarations on heavy ground and that is now 43 millimetres of rain since our previous meeting a fortnight ago," he stated 

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