Carrowniskey Races — Full Stride on the Strand

Six horses on the rail at Carrowniskey, running left to right on pale sand under a piled Atlantic sky. Blue and white silks, a grey in the middle of the field, the white posts ticking past. Behind them the sea is working and a pickup waits out on the hard sand where the tide has gone.

This is the picture people mean when they say beach racing. No grandstand. No turf. Just a measured line on Louisburgh strand and riders who know the going changes every furlong.

Taken on Carrowniskey Beach, County Mayo, on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.

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