Tim Husbands is getting ready to open Leopardstown’s gates to nobody on Saturday. Foxrock’s much-celebrated four-day Christmas Festival, so popular with the folk of South Dublin, will have the atmosphere of a struggling car-boot sale. No punter can pay in. No owner can see his or her horse. For Leopardstown, which will end the year having run 19 consecutive meetings with no customers, the prospect of the same going deep into 2021 is demoralising. “We’ve had a major capital programme of over €20 million including new hospitality areas that we do want to show it off,” Leopardstown’s CEO says. “Christmas…

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