{"id":273949,"date":"2026-01-31T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:02:10","slug":"leopardstown-cautiously-optimistic-of-sunday-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273949\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopardstown &#8216;cautiously optimistic&#8217; of Sunday go-ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at Leopardstown are &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; about the chances of Sunday&#8217;s card going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the Dublin Racing Festival on Saturday was called off following a morning inspection, with 17mm of rain overnight making the track unraceable following a very wet week.<\/p>\n<p>That card, highlighted by the Irish Gold Cup, has been switched to Monday with the original second day hinging on an 8am inspection on raceday.<\/p>\n<p>Leopardstown\u2019s chief executive Mark Clayton said: &#8220;They are working away on the track. When we went out there this morning it was unraceable after 17mm of rain overnight, with 100mm during the week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were expecting 4-5mm this morning but we have had about 2mm and we are forecast a dry day today and then through until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the forecast we would be cautiously optimistic about Sunday\u2019s card but we will have an inspection at 8am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s card is due to feature an Irish Champion Hurdle clash between Lossiemouth and Brighterdaysahead, with the two-mile contest one of four scheduled Grade One events.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Dublin Racing Festival on Sunday from 1pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/racing\/#\/meeting\/20260201\/918606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leopardstown Sunday Entires<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials at Leopardstown are &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; about the chances of Sunday&#8217;s card going ahead. The first day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-273949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}