Listowel Course Guide
Listowel Racecourse is one of the jewels in the crown of rural Ireland. Located in County Kerry, Listowel holds nine race meetings every year which is divided into a two-day fixture in June and the renowned seven-day Listowel Harvest Festival in September. Racing started at the current site in 1858 and while the Harvest Festival originally started as a two-day meeting, its popularity resulted in it being gradually lengthened up to its current seven-day status in 2002. The racing highlight of the Harvest Festival is the Kerry National, a fiercely-competitive handicap chase that has grown into a highly-valuable contest. Perhaps the most notable horse to ever run on the Flat at Listowel was the Irish Derby and King George winner Alamshar who made a winning debut at the Harvest Festival in 2002.


A left-handed, sharp track of about one mile and a furlong in length, with a run-in of about two furlongs. It suits a speedy sort of horse.
Listowel is a tight track that in truth rides best when it’s soft. It’s quite tight and undulating and soft ground slows the whole thing down a bit and makes it easier to handle. The draw isn’t all that important when the ground is on the soft side, but proven stamina is very important, as the ground gets very heavy indeed at Listowel, it isn’t like anywhere else, and it takes an awful lot of getting. If the ground is on the firmer side, a low draw is a help and pace is important.


A very sharp, flat, left-handed oval track of about a mile and a quarter in extent. It very much favours the handy type and even races over three miles present little in the way of a test of stamina. There are five fences to a circuit of the chase track, with two in the home straight of less than two furlongs. The run-in is around 200 yards.
Listowel is a tight enough track in general, but they do have a couple of different tracks that they use, so there are different degrees of sharpness depending on which track they are using on that particular day. One quite unique feature of the track is the nature of the ground, as when it is testing, there are a lot of horses that just cannot handle it at all and you’ll notice the fields getting quite well strung out quite quickly. The soil down there is quite black and holding and it seems some horses just don’t perform at all on it. I would always be prepared to forgive a horse an inexplicably bad run on testing ground there for that reason. The fences there were always quite stiff.
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Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m 1f Andalusa (Good) 20 Sep 2020 4m 10.3s 2m 3f Nearly Nama'd (Good) 03 Jun 2019 4m 46.2s 2m 4f A Toi Phil (Yielding) 13 Sep 2019 4m 48.1s 2m 6f Orion D'aubrelle (Soft) 13 Sep 2018 5m 36.4s 3m Snow Falcon (Soft) 12 Sep 2018 5m 56.7s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m Turnpike Trip (Yielding-Good in places) 14 Sep 2019 3m 44.5s 2m 4f Dr Mikey (Good) 08 Sep 2019 4m 46.5s 3m Hand In My Pocket (Good) 20 Sep 2020 5m 53.4s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m Bentham (Yielding-Good in places) 14 Sep 2019 3m 49.2s 2m 4f Lowtown Charlie (Good) 03 Jun 2019 4m 53.8s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 6f 60y Fit For Function (Good) 03 Jun 2018 1m 17.74s 7f Agitare (Good) 22 Sep 2020 1m 27.51s 1m Moritzburg (Good) 04 Jun 2017 1m 40.61s 1m 1f Lady Wannabe (Good) 22 Sep 2020 1m 53.2s 1m 4f L'empathie (Soft) 13 Sep 2019 2m 42.86s 1m 6f Rock De Baune (Soft) 12 Sep 2019 3m 14.06s 1m 6f 170y Law Girl (Good) 03 Jun 2018 3m 22.73s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L W P Mullins 28 7 €157,694 25% €2.88 H de Bromhead 30 5 €162,740 16.67% €5.75 J P Ryan 19 3 €39,503 15.79% €9.33 G Elliott 24 2 €41,300 8.33% -€13.50 E Bolger 4 2 €12,320 50% €3.25 J Queally 2 2 €21,464 100% €6.83 Joseph P O'Brien 18 1 €9,240 5.56% -€17.20 M Hourigan 4 1 €10,472 25% €5.00 Mrs J Harrington 4 1 €18,450 25% €3.00 E McNamara 12 1 €23,600 8.33% -€9.50 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L W P Mullins 34 10 €95,961 29.41% -€16.72 Joseph P O'Brien 37 7 €74,963 18.92% €11.23 G Elliott 30 4 €61,270 13.33% -€26.52 G P Cromwell 27 4 €37,378 14.81% -€1.00 J E Kiely 6 3 €47,238 50% €54.00 Padraig Roche 11 2 €17,796 18.18% -€3.50 E McNamara 34 2 €17,340 5.88% -€26.50 H de Bromhead 23 2 €19,108 8.7% -€27.90 Mrs Y Dunleavy 9 2 €14,783 22.22% €19.00 M Brassil 7 2 €19,520 28.57% €20.10 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L W P Mullins 15 3 €22,016 20% €1.91 G Elliott 7 2 €14,291 28.57% -€3.17 N Meade 4 2 €12,175 50% €4.00 J P Ryan 6 1 €7,092 16.67% -€1.50 Peter Fahey 5 1 €7,092 20% -€1.00 Ms M Mullins 4 1 €7,092 25% -€1.75 P A Fahy 6 1 €7,392 16.67% -€1.50 G P Cromwell 3 1 €8,274 33.33% €0.75 P J Gilligan 2 1 €7,683 50% €3.00 R P O'Keeffe 1 1 €5,400 100% €20.00 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Joseph P O'Brien 34 8 €106,971 23.53% €0.25 A P O'Brien 24 7 €120,809 29.17% -€7.01 J S Bolger 33 5 €61,156 15.15% -€3.70 W P Mullins 15 4 €40,848 26.67% -€4.75 J G Murphy 24 4 €43,968 16.67% €26.00 D K Weld 36 3 €25,551 8.33% -€28.00 W McCreery 19 3 €34,167 15.79% -€6.75 Mrs J Harrington 31 2 €22,862 6.45% -€20.00 John Patrick Murtagh 20 2 €38,124 10% -€12.00 J A Stack 20 2 €30,508 10% €7.00 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L P Townend 15 6 €144,779 40% €12.13 Rachael Blackmore 17 4 €147,400 23.53% €10.75 Miss A B O'Connor 4 3 €22,367 75% €6.25 M P Walsh 11 2 €31,050 18.18% -€0.25 L P Dempsey 9 2 €47,200 22.22% €21.00 S F O'Keeffe 10 1 €17,700 10% -€6.50 D J O'Keeffe 11 1 €12,600 9.09% -€6.67 D E Mullins 11 1 €15,990 9.09% -€9.67 K J Brouder 8 1 €23,600 12.5% -€4.50 D J Mullins 7 1 €12,915 14.29% -€3.25 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L P Townend 34 11 €106,433 32.35% -€8.72 M P Walsh 28 6 €64,615 21.43% €13.58 K J Brouder 34 4 €40,935 11.76% €114.00 D J O'Keeffe 30 3 €101,450 10% €8.50 P T Enright 35 3 €73,100 8.57% -€17.50 D N Russell 12 3 €29,260 25% -€2.84 D Meyler 18 3 €56,549 16.67% €21.50 D F O'Regan 13 3 €57,350 23.08% €7.75 S D Torrens 10 3 €57,600 30% €16.88 S W Flanagan 26 2 €12,600 7.69% -€5.00 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Mr P W Mullins 15 3 €20,484 20% -€8.84 Mr J J Codd 7 2 €14,291 28.57% -€2.17 Mr M J O'Hare 5 2 €12,175 40% €2.00 Mr F Maguire 10 1 €5,400 10% -€7.00 Mr R Deegan 10 1 €7,392 10% -€5.50 Mr E P O'Brien 8 1 €8,008 12.5% €32.00 Mr B O'Neill 3 1 €7,092 33.33% €2.00 Mr D G Lavery 2 1 €7,092 50% €1.50 Mr W J Gleeson 3 1 €8,624 33.33% €10.00 Mr T Reilly 1 1 €6,775 100% €16.00 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D O'Brien 20 6 €97,025 30% €1.75 G F Carroll 31 6 €66,118 19.35% €37.00 K J Manning 34 5 €61,156 14.71% -€4.70 C D Hayes 49 4 €51,897 8.16% -€20.25 S M Crosse 10 4 €47,992 40% €20.25 W J Lee 43 3 €35,352 6.98% -€31.25 S Foley 44 3 €24,480 6.82% -€29.50 J A Heffernan 23 3 €39,800 13.04% -€14.76 W M Lordan 24 3 €44,523 12.5% €24.00 L F Roche 21 3 €24,315 14.29% -€9.50
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