In June and September there are two festivals at Listowel. Like Ballinrobe, it has an outer and an inner track. The outside track races behind the house is a much bigger course, about 1m3f; round the inner track is about a mile. It’s a fair, left-handed track with two fences going away from the stands, three on the way home and two in the home straight. They mix up flat and National Hunt racing and it can be quite testing, a bit of a slog on the flat in September. It’s a pretty much flat, left-handed track shaped like the letter D.
