The Punchestown Kidney Research Fund

Another year over! Congratulations to the 2012 Charity Race winner Betty Turner. Thank you to our principle sponors Diageo Ireland, Punchestown Racecourse, The Turf Club, all the trainers and owners and all of our supporters who helped us to make 2012 another great year for PKRF. Total funds raised and a more detailed update to follow....watch this space.....!!!!

We are delighted that our charity race has been rescheduled and will take place on Tuesday  next May 8th. Entries are below.

*IMPORTANT INFORMATION*

The Diageo Ireland Charity Race will not take place this Saturday 28th April. It will hopefully be rescheduled to a later date. If so all sponsorship raised will be valid for that date. PKRF respect the decision of the Turf Club Stewards. Safety of the horses and riders must come first.   

As has been the tradition for the past 23 years, The Punchestown Charity Race will take place as the final race of the Irish National Hunt Festival on Saturday April 28th. Twenty five riders will again battle it out over 2 miles to raise money in aid of The Punchestown Kidney Research Fund (PKRF). Chairman, James Nolan, himself a transplant recipient is delighted to have Diageo Ireland as sponsors of the race once again. "We are very grateful to DIAGEO IRELAND and Punchestown for their continued support. There is still a huge interest in our charity race with over 70 applications received this year which helps us to continue funding projects that improve the lives of patients with kidney disease and promote organ donor awareness".

The 21^st running of the Punchestown Charity Race took place on Saturday 24^th April 2010. It was a fitting finale to the 2010 National Hunt Racing Festival. The race was once again kindly sponsored by Diageo Ireland, brilliantly organised by Anne Marie Molloy and run in aid of the Punchestown Kidney Research Fund (PKRF). €66,800 was raised through the Race and the Mini Marathon and the cumulative total raised by the PKRF to date now stands at a staggering €1,116,689.

Congratulations to Niall Cronin
Winner of The 2010 Race!

Read all about his experience at Herald.ie

Evening Herald Racing correspondent Niall Cronin with his horse, Prospectorous, trained by Phillip Dempsey, was the winner of the 2010 Diageo Ireland Charity Race. He was given a fantastic reception by the thousands of racing fans that stayed on to watch the curtain close on the National Hunt season–as were all 24 jockeys in this most special of Races.

• 2^nd was Martha Pisarek riding Paramount, trained by Ted Walsh
• 3^rd was Paddy McLoughlin riding Force of Habit, trained by Dermott Weld
• 4^th was hardy Eustace ridden by Sandra Hughes, trained by Dessie Hughes

2011/2010 Progress Report

We have supported the following projects:

• €10,000 – Tallaght Art Therapy Project
• €10,000 – Waterford Art Therapy Project
• €30,000 – Cancer Screening at Beaumont Hospital
• €500 – To sponsor a dialysis patient to go to Lourdes
• €15,000 – Final Paymet on 2010 Transplant Games
• €1,300 – Paid for Two Transplant Games Sports Bursaries

Darren Cawley, Linda Evans, Larry Hagman, James Nolan and Chikoyo White at Punchestown 2008.