Being a child, there is no immediate action John can take, so he puts his desire for revenge aside and settles back into life at Plover’s Barrows farm with his mother and two younger sisters, Annie and Lizzie.Īt fourteen, John has his first encounter with the eight-year-old Lorna after climbing a hill behind a steep waterfall and unexpectedly finding himself in the Doone Valley. John is twelve years old when his father is attacked and killed by a gang of Doones, a once noble family who fell out of favour at court and fled to an isolated Exmoor valley where they have since been leading wild and lawless lives. Set in the south west of England in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of John Ridd, a yeoman farmer, and his love for the beautiful Lorna Doone. Blackmore’s 1869 classic, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, has all of these things and more. The racetrack is located in very close proximity to the Limerick Junction railway station, and approximately two miles from the town of Tipperary itself.A clan of murderous outlaws, a dashing highwayman, stolen jewels, family feuds, political intrigue, lots of beautiful scenery and a tender love story: R.D. The chase course is set out inside the hurdles track with six fences to a circuit and two in the home straight of two and a half furlongs the run-in is around a furlong.ĪBOUT: Known as Limerick Junction until its renaming in 1986, Tipperary’s biggest event of the year is the “Super Sunday” held on the first Sunday of October - although it is also very popular during the summer for its evening meetings.
NATIONAL HUNT: Tipperary is a flat, left-handed, oval track with a circuit of about nine furlongs in extent. A high draw has been slightly favoured at five furlongs, more so on soft going.
There is a straight track of five furlongs that joins with the main track at the entrance to the two and a half furlong straight.
FLAT: Tipperary Racecourse is a left-handed, flat, oval track of a mile and two furlongs in length.
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