Listowel Racecourse

Listowel Racecourse is a horse racing venue in the town of Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland which stages both National Hunt and Flat racing. The course is flat and run left handed over a rectangular shaped circuit measuring just over a mile. The current racecourse which is close to the town centre first opened in 1858 and celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 2008.^[1]

Festival

Listowel's major race festival, the harvest festival, which was originally known as the North Kerry Hunt Steeplechase Meeting takes place each year in September over seven days with both national hunt and flat races taking place. It is one of the final festivals to take place in the summer, the last before Christmas and second only to the Galway Races in attendances. In total nine meetings take place each year with a two-day meeting every June.

Guinness Kerry National

The most valuable race run at Listowel is the Guinness Kerry National. It is run on the Wednesday of the Harvest Festival over a distance of 3 miles. Previous winners include the Aintree Grand National winner Monty's Pass.

References

↑ "Course Profile". Racingsight.co.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2012.

External links

Horseracing in Ireland

Venues

National Hunt	Kilbeggan Punchestown

Flat	The Curragh Dundalk Laytown

Mixed	Ballinrobe Ballybrit (Galway) Clonmel Cork Down Royal Downpatrick Fairyhouse Gowran Park Killarney Leopardstown Listowel Limerick Navan Naas Roscommon Sligo Thurles Tipperary Tramore Wexford

Former Venues	Greenpark Phoenix Park Baldoyle

Named races

Regulation

Horse Racing Ireland

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