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Horse Racecourses
Equine Business Team
 The industry we reviewed
was horse racing. We
picked 5 racecourses to
compare and contrast
 Punchestown
 Leopardstown
 Galway
 The Curragh
 Aintree
 Breeding sector contributes over 2m to the
Irish economy
 It employs over 16,000 people
 There are 27 racecourses in the Republic of
Ireland
 Across all Irish racing festivals attendances
reached 462,938
 Total attendances at all race meeting in
Ireland reached just under 1.2m
 In comparison to race meeting attendances
in the UK that reached 6.15m
 Punchestown-located Naas Co. Kildare, 18 race fixtures per
annum, Punchestown festival held in April, attendance this year
reached 101,715, active on Facebook and Twitter
 Leopardstown-located Foxrock Dublin, 23 fixtures per annum,
student race day March, active on Facebook and Twitter
 Galway-located Ballybrit Galway, 12 fixtures per annum, Galway
festival August with attendance of 144,315, active on Facebook
and Twitter
 The Curragh- located in Kildare, 19 fixtures per annum, Irish Duty
Free Derby in June, active on Facebook and Twitter
 Aintree-located Liverpool UK, 6 fixtures p/a, John Smith Grand
National, active on Facebook and Twitter
 Punchestown- Home page well marketed,
scattered and unorganized, provided a lot of
information
 Leopardstown-attractive promotion on page,
easy to use, sign up to members club
 Galway-attractive, plenty of pictures,
extensive information
 The Curragh-poor promotion, easy to
navigate. Plenty of info
 Aintree-high quality and appealing
advertising, good media centre, substantial
info, not as easy to use as other sites
 Punchestown-up-to-date, receives a lot of
traffic, have over 1,430 tweets, follow 326
people, have 4,091 followers
 Leopardstown-3,175, follow 725 people, have
4,308 followers
 Galway-tweet monthly, 232 tweets,
following 194, have 3,957 followers
 The Curragh-regular tweets, mentioned more
than Aintree, 2,406 tweets, following 1,923
people, have 6,136 followers
 Aintree-up-to-date tweets, 2,738 tweets,
follow 1,771, have 8,744 followers
 Punchestown-20,951 fans, most talked about out
of the 5 tracks, 1,633 people talking about it,
ticket booking link, video link and events link
 Leopardstown-20,368 fans, 184 people talking
about it, provide contact info and links to their
other social networks and ticketmaster link
 Galway-58,229 fans, 625 people talking about it,
few posts and no link to ticket booking
 The Curragh-8,553 fans, 210 talking about it,
post regularly, ticket booking link and contact
details
 Aintree-20,867 fans, 323 people talking about it,
not updated regularly, provide links to other
social networks
 Leopardstown-
Instagram, Flickr,
YouTube
 Galway-Pinterest
 Aintree-YouTube and
Flickr
 Punchestown and the
Curragh do not have
any other social
networks
 Punchestown - no app available, not user
friendly for smart phones, images and map
unavailable to smart phones
 Leopardstown - no app, website
accommodates smart phone users
 Galway - no app for smart phones, website
designed to suit smart phone
 The Curragh-no smart phone app, website
not smart phone friendly
 Aintree-has a mobile app, Itunes download,
main website not user friendly to smart
phones
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 We put it into our blog
 We put it onto sociamedia.ie
 We made a video
 We put it on our social networks including
Twitter
 We found that:
 Galway most popular on Facebook
 Aintree has the most followers on Twitter
but the Curragh has the most out of the Irish
racecourses
 Galway posts the most blogs
 Aintree is the only track to have a mobile
app
 The best website is Galway

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  • 2. The industry we reviewed was horse racing. We picked 5 racecourses to compare and contrast Punchestown Leopardstown Galway The Curragh Aintree
  • 3. Breeding sector contributes over 2m to the Irish economy It employs over 16,000 people There are 27 racecourses in the Republic of Ireland Across all Irish racing festivals attendances reached 462,938 Total attendances at all race meeting in Ireland reached just under 1.2m In comparison to race meeting attendances in the UK that reached 6.15m
  • 4. Punchestown-located Naas Co. Kildare, 18 race fixtures per annum, Punchestown festival held in April, attendance this year reached 101,715, active on Facebook and Twitter Leopardstown-located Foxrock Dublin, 23 fixtures per annum, student race day March, active on Facebook and Twitter Galway-located Ballybrit Galway, 12 fixtures per annum, Galway festival August with attendance of 144,315, active on Facebook and Twitter The Curragh- located in Kildare, 19 fixtures per annum, Irish Duty Free Derby in June, active on Facebook and Twitter Aintree-located Liverpool UK, 6 fixtures p/a, John Smith Grand National, active on Facebook and Twitter
  • 5. Punchestown- Home page well marketed, scattered and unorganized, provided a lot of information Leopardstown-attractive promotion on page, easy to use, sign up to members club Galway-attractive, plenty of pictures, extensive information The Curragh-poor promotion, easy to navigate. Plenty of info Aintree-high quality and appealing advertising, good media centre, substantial info, not as easy to use as other sites
  • 6. Punchestown-up-to-date, receives a lot of traffic, have over 1,430 tweets, follow 326 people, have 4,091 followers Leopardstown-3,175, follow 725 people, have 4,308 followers Galway-tweet monthly, 232 tweets, following 194, have 3,957 followers The Curragh-regular tweets, mentioned more than Aintree, 2,406 tweets, following 1,923 people, have 6,136 followers Aintree-up-to-date tweets, 2,738 tweets, follow 1,771, have 8,744 followers
  • 7. Punchestown-20,951 fans, most talked about out of the 5 tracks, 1,633 people talking about it, ticket booking link, video link and events link Leopardstown-20,368 fans, 184 people talking about it, provide contact info and links to their other social networks and ticketmaster link Galway-58,229 fans, 625 people talking about it, few posts and no link to ticket booking The Curragh-8,553 fans, 210 talking about it, post regularly, ticket booking link and contact details Aintree-20,867 fans, 323 people talking about it, not updated regularly, provide links to other social networks
  • 8. Leopardstown- Instagram, Flickr, YouTube Galway-Pinterest Aintree-YouTube and Flickr Punchestown and the Curragh do not have any other social networks
  • 9. Punchestown - no app available, not user friendly for smart phones, images and map unavailable to smart phones Leopardstown - no app, website accommodates smart phone users Galway - no app for smart phones, website designed to suit smart phone The Curragh-no smart phone app, website not smart phone friendly Aintree-has a mobile app, Itunes download, main website not user friendly to smart phones
  • 12. We put it into our blog We put it onto sociamedia.ie We made a video We put it on our social networks including Twitter
  • 13. We found that: Galway most popular on Facebook Aintree has the most followers on Twitter but the Curragh has the most out of the Irish racecourses Galway posts the most blogs Aintree is the only track to have a mobile app The best website is Galway