Gowran Park Tips

Gowran Park is in County Kilkenny, Ireland and stages national hunt and flat racing throughout the year.

Highlights: There are plenty of quality races under both codes on the menu at Gowran Park which plays host to 7 National Hunt graded events, the highlight being the Grade 1 Thyestes Chase towards the end of January and on the flat a Group 3 fillies in September plus two listed races.

View a list of fixtures list which includes 20 meetings in total over the year. Plan your day’s racing and betting. It’s possible to book your tickets online and you can fit a round of golf in too perhaps!  

TV Channel: Racing TV

If you are going to Gowran Park races today then why not download the OLBG app to get all the latest Gowran Park tips at the course?

* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Gowran Park

Gowran Park Outright Favourite Statistics

• Flat Handicaps: 46-206 (22%) -38.28
• Flat Non-Handicaps: 54-163 (33%) -33.92
• Handicap Chases: 10-23 (43%) +12.79
• Handicap Hurdles: 13-51 (25%) +0.00
• Non-Handicap Chases: 30-47 (64%) +10.12
• Non-Handicap Hurdles: 32-74 (43%) -12.04

Flat Racing - A right-handed oval of around a mile and a half. While there are some undulations, it is essentially a galloping track and the final climb in the three-furlong straight is quite testing. 

Jumps Racing - A right-handed, oval track with a circuit of around a mile and a half. Although there are some undulations the track is essentially galloping in character and on soft ground can provide a thorough test of stamina. There are seven fences to a circuit of the chase course, which is on the outside of the hurdles track, with three situated in the three-furlong uphill home straight. The run-in is around a furlong.

Gowran Park Racecourse Address: Mill Rd, Gowran Demesne, Kilkenny, Ireland

Gowran Park Racecourse Telephone: 56 772 6225

To buy tickets for a race day at Gowran Park, head over to their official ticket booking webpage.

All the races are listed with a race time and the most hotly-tipped horse at that time will be highlighted for each race.

You’ll see the number of tips and comments made on the selection which are represented in numbers and percentages. The latest betting odds also appear alongside the name of the horse.

The best OLBG tipsters leave informed comments with their tips and this can help you understand their thinking and logic towards making this selection.

To view the comments made on the horse and to view the other tips made on other runners in the field, click/tap on ‘All Tips’.

You’ll see more information on the runners at Gowran Park such as jockey, form, weight, and age and you’ll be able to read the tips comments. The star rating system combines the popularity of a horse and its latest betting odds.

To help you quickly find the best odds for horse racing at Gowran Park, OLBG provides a price comparison tool which quick and easy to use.

Just click/tap ‘Add' To Betslip on your chosen horse and we’ll show the latest best odds. Repeat to find the best odds for your combination bets at Gowran Park to make sure you’re getting the best potential profit for your bet.

If there is no meeting scheduled at Gowran Park, head over to the racing predictions page for tips on racing elsewhere today.

You have all this useful information and it’s your decision about how you use it. You’ll probably find your own particular OLBG tipster that you like to follow as you like their logic and rationale for example.

Every month there is a horse racing tipster competition and you can view the latest table here. Click on the tipster’s username to view their tipping history as well as their monthly profit trend, LSP & strike rate.

Remember you also have the following valuable information available to you;

• You can use the most popular Gowran Park tips today to put into singles or put into a combo such as a double, treble or Lucky 15
• View and follow the tips of the most profitable tipsters from Gowran Park racecourse to narrow down your options further
• Use the OLBG star rating system to see the most valuable betting selections today at Gowran Park

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With an LSP of +97.89, the most successful stall at Gowran Park is stall 1 when backing runners over a trip of 1m1½f over the last five years. For the least profitable stall at Gowran Park, you need to look at races over 1m and focus on stall 3 as this has produced an LSP of -90.50 over the last five years.

Here we have the draw bias for Gowran Park taken into consideration races with ten or more runners, we will break down the figures by race distance, draws can be much more important over the shorter trips in which runners do not have time to find their position during the race meaning the draw is probably more important than the races over longer distances.

• Sprints (5f to 7½f)
• Mile (1m to 1m1½f)
• Middle Distance (1m2f to 1m5½f)

The following table shows a breakdown over a group of trips and shows how each position of the draw does, for example in a twelve-runner race would be Low (Stalls 1-4), Mid (Stalls 5-8) and High (Stalls 9-12), the positions will always be lowest stall number to highest.

Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Gowran Park?

With a total number of thirty-seven winners at Gowran Park, J P Murtagh leads the way for winners from trainers who have shown a profit (+59.30) for all of their runners at Gowran Park. When looking at trainers and looking for some eachway value at Gowran Park then the trainer who shows the best eachway profit is Jarlath P Fahey, whose LSP is +52.80 which has been accumulated by a total of eight placings which includes two winners. At the other end of the spectrum is Joseph Patrick O'Brien who has a terrible record at Gowran Park, of all the trainers their LSP of -109.99 is the worst, they have a 13% strike rate with thirty-six winners from two hundred sixty-seven runners.

Backing all of the C T Keane rides would have produced the most winners for a jockey here at Gowran Park with forty but you would have returned a loss by doing so, W M Lordan leads the way for profitable jockey with an LSP of +45.23 from their twenty-five winners. If you are looking for a jockey to follow in the eachway market then it is L F Roche who leads the way at Gowran Park, they have had a total of twenty-five placings which includes eleven winners over the previous five for an eachway LSP of +38.30. The jockey with the worst record at Gowran Park based on LSP is C D Hayes who has only a 5% strike rate with eleven winners from two hundred forty-three rides which have returned an LSP of -124.91.

Gowran Park Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations

Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Gowran Park based on the number of winners:

• 26 Wins: J P Murtagh & Ben M Coen
• 22 Wins: Mrs John Harrington & Shane Foley
• 22 Wins: G M Lyons & C T Keane
• 13 Wins: Joseph Patrick O'Brien & Dylan B McMonagle
• 13 Wins: A P O'Brien & W M Lordan

Gowran Park Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Gowran Park Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Who are the best national hunt jockeys and trainers to bet on at Gowran Park?

When looking at profitable trainers only, then it is John Patrick Ryan who leads the way with a total of four winners producing an LSP of +4.63 whilst W P Mullins leads the overall list with forty winners but shows a loss overall. Philip Fenton is the trainer to follow at Gowran Park if you are backing eachway as they show the best LSP of all the trainers in the eachway markets, that is +46.15 which is courtesy of their eight placings (two winners). A total of twenty-six winners from one hundred ninety-nine runners at Gowran Park have Gordon Elliott at the wrong end of the trainers' list with their 13% strike rate and worst LSP of -101.65.

Following Mr P W Mullins would have returned a profit here at Gowran Park with an LSP of +6.69 and their nine winners have them at the head of the profitable jockeys' list. P Townend does lead the jockeys' list overall with twenty-two winners but shows an overall loss. With an eachway LSP of +28.39 at Gowran Park, Brian Hayes leads the jockeys in profit for backing eachway which has been helped by their eleven placings which include a total of three winners. The jockey with the worst record at Gowran Park based on LSP is P T Enright who has only a 4% strike rate with three winners from seventy-six rides which have returned an LSP of -47.00.

Gowran Park Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations

Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Gowran Park based on the number of winners:

• 22 Wins: W P Mullins & P Townend
• 10 Wins: Henry De Bromhead & Rachael Blackmore
• 7 Wins: Gordon Elliott & J W Kennedy
• 6 Wins: Gordon Elliott & Mr J C Gainford
• 6 Wins: Gordon Elliott & D N Russell

Gowran Park Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Gowran Park Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

With a huge combined experience of horse racing between them, this content has been created and is maintained by Darren Brett, James Banting and Andy Powell. All of the data for Gowran Park Racecourse which includes the favourite statistics, draw bias and the trainer and jockey statistics have been created using results from HorseRaceBase.

Darren Brett

Tipster competition manager

Darren has worked in the horse racing industry for decades bringing to OLBG for the last 20 years a wealth of knowledge, creating much of our content on these sports. Darren also manages our Grand National Guide and is the go-to font of knowledge for the world's greatest steeplechase.

James Banting

Tipster competition assistant

James Banting, a passionate horse racing enthusiast and aficionado, brings a wealth of experience to OLBG, having attended numerous race meetings over the years. His background working with the Jockey Club provides him with a unique insider's perspective on the industry.

Andy Powell

Content editor

Andy is a seasoned professional with more than 15 years of experience in the field of horse racing. He has a thorough understanding of the sport, from analyzing complex statistical data to being part of a winning syndicate at the Cheltenham Festival. Andy is responsible for managing the horse racing trend blogs on OLBG.