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Excuse my ignorance but I assume the 4 days at Killarney this week was the Tralee festival that was.
What happened Tralee. The last I heard Austin Stacks were moving out from town and there was going to be a football pitch within the track and both woul survive. Is that knocked on the head now ?
What happened Tralee. The last I heard Austin Stacks were moving out from town and there was going to be a football pitch within the track and both woul survive. Is that knocked on the head now ?
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Absolutely nothing has happened. Track has laid idle since the final race meeting(with the exception of a couple of coursing meets) and imo the chances of development on any scale in the near future is pretty remote. There have been rumours in the locality that racing may return but much work to be done for that to happen and the appetite for same is lacking. An utter shame as I'd long considered it to be one of the better country tracks.
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Few industrial unit were built the owners wanted to build houses on it, it has turned out to be a total disaster for them
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It was unbelievable to me that the local people allowed this facility to lapse . Tralee was a good track , with decent amenities ( cant speak for the bars , never inhabit them myself ), and some very good racing given its distance from the racing training centres .
It used to be an integral part of the Rose festival . Then some clever clogs tried ( and succeeded ) to divorce the two , and from then on both suffered . Greed again , trying to turn a stellar week ( for a lot ) into two weeks . Not on , most people dont have two weeks holiday to run together , particularly if they have family and other commitments . Other issues then , golden carrot ( presumably ) being dangled , might have worked 4-5 years ago , but I suspect now dead in the water . As a regular visitor to Kerry I saw lots of the classic greed factors entering in . The locals are largely to blame for that , now I imagine the site is a bit of an albatross around their necks . Little sympathy out there for them unfortunately . Sad . |
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What is unbelievable to me is the lack of coverage. I spent over an hour last night googling for info on it and could find nothing on it. In the Racing diary I have (printed a year ago now granted) Tralee is down as a 6 day festival same as ever. It is like the filling stations in the boom years, it just disappeared overnight.
Gary on ATR never once even mentioned it. it was like the Holocaust it never existed Lest people forget this was a huge festival once third only to Galway and Listowel |
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indeed lustrumm and as kelly states a much better track than some of the kips still operating as racecourses in this country including the place that ran the festival last week
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fond memorys of the place.but in its last 10 years of existance it went downhill.no money spent on it.its a fab track for sure.the crowds that used to go there 25yrs ago were huge.dkw used to have a huge number of winners there.i remember him having 6 or 7 winners out of 9 races on one day.wally swinburn riding them all.id agree that greed was the reason it went downhill they had a great festival but didnt want to nurture it.
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Michael Kinane rode the best race of his career to win on Treble Bob in a handicap at Tralee in about 94 or 95. Crowds used to be huge. The had a reserved enclosure that you had to squeeze in to during the festival. Con Collins was the man down there. Huge gambles from his well known owners.
But nothing lasts for ever. It was a terrible place when it closed down. Good luck to Killarney, if only something could be done about getting in and out of there!!! |