Cork Racecourse Mallow will host the most valuable Nursery to be run in Ireland this year, the €50,000 Irish EBF Auction Series Nursery Handicap over six furlongs. The race is one of the Auction Series finals, where combined prizemoney on offer is €170,000. To enter you must have run or declared and balloted from at least one race in the Irish EBF Auction Series and entries close on Thursday 21st September for the six furlong contest.
As the yearling sales become the main focus of attention off the track for trainers, many connections will make their purchases with the 25 valuable qualifying races of the Irish EBF Auction Series and additional two lucrative final races firmly in their mind. Joe Foley, Chairman of the Irish EBF said: “The Irish EBF Auction Series, now in its ninth year, is a booming success and hitting all the targets it set out to achieve when created by the Irish EBF board and HRI. The main purpose of the series was to give valuable race opportunities to horses bought at the middle to lower end of the auction market. Now trainers and owners are sourcing yearlings to target at the series and with a good horse you can win significant prize money, increase their value, sell them on or target one of the two finals available to them. It’s a win-win series.”