A unique venue that stages a seven-day festival in late July/early August with two notorious fences in the dip that are close together, about seven strides apart. When you turn from the back of the castle at Galway you run downhill into the dip and climb all the way to the winning post. From there to the castle is dead level. It has a long run-in of two furlongs and with the shape of the fences you always seem to be turning to the right. It doesn’t favour horses who jump left - you lose way more ground here than anywhere else.
