- Cashel Palace Hotel team visited Coolmore Stud for an internal team-building day.
- The hotel offers a unique Equine Concierge service for guest access to the stud.
- The Racing Royalty Experience provides behind-the-scenes access to Ballydoyle and Coolmore.
- Coolmore Stud is normally closed to the public but accessible via the hotel.
- The Magnier family’s ownership of both properties enables this exclusive hospitality.
Cashel Palace Director of Sales Karen Fleming and equine concierge Emma-Mai Roche arranged a team-building visit for the Cashel Palace Hotel staff to the Coolmore Stud, offering the sales, marketing, reservations, and events teams an inside look at the elite thoroughbred breeding operation that is a prized USP offering for guests at the hotel.. Cashel, famously, is the only Irish hotel to have an equine concierge.
The visit served as a learning experience for the high-performing team, demonstrating the standards of excellence synonymous with the Magnier family’s global horse racing enterprise. The group enjoyed a hero guest experience at the stud before a top-class lunch at Sadler’s in Fethard .
The Cashel Palace Hotel, a five-star Relais & Châteaux property in County Tipperary, provides a dedicated Equine Concierge service that facilitates rare access to Coolmore Stud . The Racing Royalty Experience, curated with Horse Country Ireland, grants exclusive behind-the-scenes tours of the private thoroughbred operations . The Equine Concierge team crafts bespoke itineraries across Tipperary’s Golden Vale, including visits to the Ballydoyle Racing Stables and the Fethard Horse Country Experience .
Coolmore Stud remains a private working farm and traditionally closes to the public, but guests of the Cashel Palace secure access through these specialised services . Located approximately a 25-minute drive from the hotel lobby in Fethard, a curated itinerary might include a morning tour of the Rock of Cashel, a gourmet lunch, and an afternoon walking tour of Coolmore Stud.
