This year (2021) Listowel Races celebrates 163 years of horse racing. In 2021 the Harvest Festival runs from 19th -25th September. Serious Fun, Serious Racing.
Jack de Bromhead R.I.P.
At times such as this, words just aren’t enough.
All at Listowel Races wish to extend our deepest sympathies to Henry, Heather, Mia, Georgia and Jack’s extended family.
May his gentle soul rest in peace❤️
𝐎𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐇𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐋 𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒
Listowel Race Company is pleased to announce that three-time British Champion Jockey, Oisin Murphy will ride at Listowel Races on Tuesday, September 19 🇮🇪🏇
Tickets via
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 - 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦❤️🔥
Many thanks to Mario Perez for this wonderful work of art in windswept Ballybunion today❤️
🎟️𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔.𝒊𝒆🏇
News Release
Live Horse Racing on TG4 with coverage from the Listowel Races Harvest Festival beginning on Monday 21st September
Live on TG4 from Monday 21st to Saturday 26th September
We welcome one & all @ Listowel Races. Fagan,owned by Ruth Healy from
@Listowel_ie
jumps a fence before racing. It’s true what they say… if you’ve got it, you’ve got it.
#dogs
#horses
#diversity
, we have it all in Listowel😂
Cracking photos from Healy Racing
@patcashhealy
@WJHJT
All at Listowel races would like to extend our thanks to clerk of the course, Val O’Connell for twelve years of stellar service👏🏻
There will always be a welcome for you in Listowel Val, wishing you health and happiness for the future.
“Rachael” - A role model and an inspirational figure with the humility to match her extraordinary talent.
Congratulations to Rachael Blackmore on a truly remarkable achievement.
“Dream big dreams, set big goals and enjoy the journey” 🏇
🎞Our head groundsman, Dan O’Connell was busy today preparing the birch fences ahead of racing in June. He’s a master of his craft!
Stay tuned for more behind the scenes footage ahead of racing.
#listowelraces
#behindthescenes
#groundstaff
#craft
IT’S RACHAEL’S WORLD
Our heartiest congratulations go to Rachael Blackmore who has been named WORLD SPORT STAR OF THE YEAR at the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Awards. 💚💛
Well done Rachael, from all a Listowel Races
#minellatimes
#class
#SPOTY
#iconic
We were saddened to learn of the passing of local stalwart, Danny Hannon. Instrumental in the development of on course facilities, Danny is pictured on the left at the opening of the weigh room and admin block in 1974.
May He Rest In Peace
📷 Listowel Races by John O’Flaherty
1,500 extra tickets will be on sale from 12pm tomorrow for each day of our Harvest Festival 2021 👏🏻
Link to tickets👇🏻(live from 12pm tomorrow).
#listowelraces
#horses
What a weekend of racing it was
@Fairyhouse
! It's fair to say the leading ladies stole the show,
⭐Dr
@jenepugh
was the recipient of the "Contribution To The Industry" Award.
⭐Rachael Blackmore claimed a third consecutive Hatton's Grace Hurdle aboard the undefeated Honeysuckle
𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐣𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲, 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 👏🏻
Congratulations to Kerry jockey, Jack Kennedy who registered his his 500th winner today, aboard Yeats Star in the Northern Ireland on Course Bookmakers Maiden Hurdle at Downpatrick 👏🏻🎉
📸 Healy Racing
Hey London friends : Our Harvest Festival runs from the 18th - 24th of September and you can fly Luton to Kerry return (Sept. 17-Sept. 25) for just £47 (as of 6.30pm today)🤩
Why not gather the troops & experience the fun, racing & welcome on offer in Listowel?
#londonirish
Listowel Race Company can confirm the scheduled visit of Frankie Dettori to Listowel Races has been cancelled.
Mr. Dettori received a 14-day suspension at Baden-Baden on Sunday last, with the suspension set to run from September 18 to October 1.
Full statement on our Facebook.
🎟Link to tickets (from 12pm):
A limited number of Harvest Festival tickets will be on sale from 12pm today. You can purchase yours via the above link
Please note: the link will not be live until 12pm.
#listowelraces
#ticketfairy
25,610 enjoyed the sunshine, racing & craic here yesterday. Guinness Kerry National was close, right to the post, great win for Noel Meade's Snow Falcon with Jonathan Moore on board
@ListowelRaces
125-1 shot Le Figaro Faoudel wins the Connolly's
@redmillsstore
@IrishEBF_
Auction Maiden Hurdle 😲
@KevinBrouder
the winning jockey & Eoin Christopher McCarthy the winning trainer
📸 It's a photo finish in the
@GuinnessIreland
Kerry National Handicap Chase! Cabaret Queen just holds on to the win from Moyhenna, who's late challenge wasn't enough. It's a double on the card for jockey
@PTownend
and trainer
@WillieMullinsNH
.
Desertmore House wins our highlight of the week, the €200,000 Guinness Kerry National!
Congratulations to trainer Martin Brassil, rider
@RickyDoyle94
and owners Bernard Carroll and Anthony Vaughan
💪🏻Craftsmen at work
🌴 palm laying🌴
There’s much more to a fence than meets the eye!! Our
groundsmen have been laying palm this week & as a
result, the fences are looking pristine.
⭐️well done team⭐️
Congratulations & best wishes to the great Kevin Manning who has announced his retirement from the saddle.
He did so following his success aboard Vocal Studies at Galway today.
Well done on a tremendous career Kevin, from all at Listowel Races 👏🏻
📸 Healy Racing
Congrats to local man Gearoid Brouder who tasted his first success as a trainer at
@GowranPark1
yesterday. There Astrophysicist ran out a convincing five length winner under Shane Foley. Well done Gearoid, from all at Listowel Races. 🏇
#listowel
#oneofourown
#localtalent
A fantastic finish to our €60,000 Liam Healy Memorial Lartigue Hurdle!
Samui provides
@DannyGilligan8
with another big prize, landing the spoils for
@gelliott_racing
🏆
💃 Prairie Dancer with a brilliant performance, making all in the Liam Healy Memorial Lartigue Hurdle!
Trainer
@JosephOBrien2
will be happy with that performance and a strong ride from J J Slevin 👏
🙌🏻Former Listowel winner, Hewick, wins Bet365 Gold Cup (G3) at Sandown Park Racecourse🏆⭐️
Trained by John ‘Shark’ Hanlon, the seven year-old cost just €850 at Goresbridge Horse Sales in 2017. 😮
We would certainly love to welcome him back here in September 👏🏻
📸Healy Racing
Live Horse Racing on TG4 with coverage from the Listowel Races Harvest Festival beginning on Monday 9th September. Coverage starts Mon:- 2:10, Tues:- 1:55, Wed:- 1:45, Thurs:- 1:45, Fri:- 1:45.
Easy Game finishes ahead of Ballyoisin in the
@WeAreKerry
Group Chase after the two battled all around the course.
A treble on the day for the
@WillieMullinsNH
&
@PTownend
partnership.
Busselton, trained by
@JosephOBrien2
and ridden by
@JJjslevin
, wins the €200,000
@GuinnessIreland
Kerry National. Hewick, running a mighty race under top weight, had just headed him when unseating his rider at the final fence. 🥇
What a race! N'golo wins the Seamus
@betmulvaney
Bookmaker Novice Hurdle. Malone Road beaten for the first time. A great ride by Champion Jockey
@PTownend
. Congratulations to trainer
@WillieMullinsNH
and his team 👏
🌱Current going at Listowel 🌱
🐎Flat track: Yielding.
🐎National Hunt track: Good.
🌧 That is after two mls of rain overnight. Further rain is forecast for this morning, with showers this afternoon. Unsettled conditions are expected to continue.
#listowelraces
#going
#racing
It should be “a fantastic flight of asses” - John B. Keane. The below article featured in The Kerryman newspaper in Sept. 1960 & documents efforts made to recover from a fire that devastated the stand the previous year. festivities were not restricted to the racecourse it seems👇🏻
Simply Sideways bolts up!
A fine season continues for the six-year-old with victory in
@thetotecom
Handicap for trainer Tim Doyle and jockey Sean Bowen 👏
The closing race of the 2022 Listowel Harvest Festival goes the way of Thecompanysergeant who makes all under John Gleeson to land the Brendan Daly Memorial INH Flat Race for trainer
@d_g_hogan
👏
Vera Verto runs out an excellent winner of our day-five showpiece, the Listowel Printing Works Handicap.
A career-best here from the five-year-old on a week to remember at the Harvest Festival for
@gavincromwell1
!
👑 The Lady reigns supreme
A smart performance from Lady Wannabe who shows a good turn of foot to capture our Listed feature Edmund & Josie Whelan Memorial Listowel Stakes for
@fozzystack
&
@chrishayes24
White hot! 🔥
@garyfcarroll
brings up a treble - and trainer Joe Murphy a double - after Grey Leader readily wins the one-mile
@IrishStallionFarms
EBF Median Auction 🏇
Four-timer! Baron Samedi continues his fine run of form with success in the Listowel Printing Works Handicap under Dylan Browne McMonagle for
@JosephOBrien2
👏
Going- Flat- Good to Yielding, Good in places. Nat. Hunt- Good. Changeable from Tuesday. Up to 10 mls rain Tuesday/Wednesday. Monitoring Nat. Hunt track. Bumpers today and tomorrow on Hurdle Track. Outside track for National Hunt racing and for Flat races frm 1 mile 1 furlong up.
Flying Scotsman is not for stopping in the Listowel Printing Works Handicap, forging ahead close home to win in first-time blinkers for the
@waynemlordan
and
@JosephOBrien2
combination 🏆