Photo Healy RacingThe Listowel Harvest Festival is a popular event in County Kerry and here you can find all you need about Listowel betting offers and free bets.
See below for our extensive list of the best free bet offers for new customers to use during the Listowel Harvest Festival, totalling over €1,000.
As well as new customer offers for Listowel, there are a wide range of existing customer offers available for punters to use during the Harvest Festival, including daily promotions, odds boosts, and free bets.
Dragon Of Malta has a tremendous record at this Festival. The 9-y-o has competed at the last six Harvest Festivals, notching up three wins and two second places. He arrives here off the back of some respectable efforts at Galway and Roscommon and should contend again. He is declared to run in handicaps on both Monday and Tuesday and he is one to keep on the right side of as he won on consecutive days here last year.
A number of the leading contenders for the Kerry National ran in the Galway Plate and of those horses I really like the chances of Downmexicoway. His jumping at Galway was awful. He made mistakes at both fences in the dip on the first circuit and appeared to lose his confidence, making minor errors at nearly every fence. Despite this, he ran a blinder to finish fifth and was beaten less than four lengths at the line. Listowel is an easier track and if he gets into a rhythm with his jumping on this occasion he has a serious chance.
Free bets and betting offers are available for new Irish customers, including a wide range of 'bet and get' offers, including bet365's bet 10 and get €30 in free bets.
There are a number of factors to consider before you choose your free bet offer for Listowel Harvest festival, this includes the free bet stakes, when the free bets expire, min odds to unlock your free bets, payment method exclusions and whether a promo code is required.
You will find these details in the terms and conditions below all of the free bet and betting offers in our comprehensive table above.
There are a wide range of existing customer betting offers available all year round and they really come into their own around the big events, such as the Listowel Harvest Festival. Below, we have rundown the key existing customer offers you can utilise.
Money back specials see your stake returned as a free bet or cash if the horse you have backed does not win.
Usually, your horse has to finish second or second, third or fourth to be eligible for a refund but this will vary from bookmaker to bookmaker.
As always, you will need to carefully understand the terms and conditions of a money back special offer before placing your bet.
Best odds guaranteed is a staple existing customer offer for horse racing betting although it is becoming less popular among bookmakers with some scaling back their offering.
There is still a wide range of bookmakers that have BOG which means that if the horse you have backed drifts in price by the start of the race, you will be paid at the bigger odds. it also means that if the horse you have backed shortens in price, you will be paid out at the odds you backed it at.
The time BOG kicks-in varies from bookmaker to bookmaker with some starting at 8am while others only run it from 11am. Also, with some, such as Paddy Power, you will have to opt-in to receive BOG so again, double check the T&Cs.
Price boosts do what they say on the tin. Bookmakers, particularly the likes of bet365, will boost horses to better odds that you are unlikely to find among the regular prices of any other bookie.
Each-way betting is a key part of National Hunt racing so will naturally play a big role at the Listowel Harvest Festival.
The more places a bookmaker pays out, the better so look out for bookmakers like bet365 and William Hill are usually among the best for offering extra places on the big races.
Listowel 28 9 24 Racegoers cross over the Island Bridge ahead of Day 7 of the Harvest Festival Healy Racing Photo Healy RacingListowel hosts both National Hunt and Flat racing across it's nine meetings throughout the calendar year, but the undoubted highlight is the Harvest Festival.
Staged over seven days, the 2025 renewal gets underway on Sunday 21st September and runs until Saturday 27th September.
Day two is dedicated to the Flat while the other six days showcase National Hunt racing, with the feature race of the week the Kerry National.
Offering €200,000 in prize money, the Grade 3 Kerry National is the most prestigious race hosted at Listowel and this year it will take place on at 4.23 on September 24th.
Famous winners include Monty's Pass who won the race in 2002 before winning the Aintree Grand National the following year while Cheltenham Stayers Hurdle winner Dorans Pride won it in 1997.
Below you can find the full schedule for this year's Listowel Races.
Check out the schedule in detail for day one.
Check out the full schedule in detail for day two.
Check out the full schedule in detail for day three.
Check out the full schedule in detail for day four.
Check out the full schedule in detail for day five.
Check out the full schedule in detail for day six.
Check out the full schedule in detail for day seven.
There are some trends from past Kerry Nationals that can inform your selections.
It’s no surprise that the Kerry National is the main event of the week and it’s a race that all the top trainers want to win. This year’s race will surely be a fascinating puzzle to solve with plenty of intriguing candidates to consider.
There was a substantial prize fund of €188,000 on offer last year and the first-place prize is certainly worth winning. Usually this results in a fiercely competitive race so we’ve had a look at some key recent trends which could help you find the winner.
Five of the last seven winners carried less than 11st and in some cases significantly so. Gordon Elliott’s Wrath Of Titans won it back in 2016 and the seven-year-old carried just 9-3.
Two-time Cheltenham Stayers’ Hurdle winner Flooring Porter carried 11-4 when winning two years ago and last year's winner Spanish Harlem shouldered 11-1
The only other horse to win carrying in excess of 11st is 2018 scorer Snow Falcon. Noel Meade’s gelding also had some excellent graded hurdles form, which perhaps suggests that the fences at Listowel are easier to jump than most.
Ireland’s five leading Jumps trainers have all won the race in the last decade, with Gordon Elliott, Willie Mullins and Joseph O’Brien both winning two each. This makes them worth keeping an eye on, should they send any representatives over for the race this year.
Younger horses with scope for improvement have thrived in this race in recent years. Joseph O’Brien even won it with a five-year-old back in 2022, as 142-rated Busselton came out on top. Veterans have struggled in recent years as no 10-year-olds have managed to win.
The oldest winner in the last decade is the trend-busting Flooring Porter, taking the race in 2024 at the age of nine. Five of the last 10 winners were seven-year-olds.
This statistic probably isn’t the most indicative but it’s certainly interesting that the favourite has failed to oblige in each of the last 10 renewals. The shortest SP for any winner in the last decade is 6/1, although the biggest-priced winner was only 16/1.
Before then, there are some general tips to consider before making your selections for the Listowel Harvest Festival.
These are rules you should consider before backing any horse, such as form of the horse, jockey and trianer and course form.
For Listowel specifically, it is worth noting that historically there is no draw bias in flat racing while the jumps course favours a front-running type.
In terms of trainer success at Listowel, it is the usual names with Aidan O'Brien having a 31% success rate on the Flat while over jumps, Henry de Bromhead has an18% win rate.
To get started with betting on Listowel horse racing, new customers can sign up with a bookmaker and claim a welcome offer.
The first deposit must be made using an eligible payment method, and the qualifying bet must be placed within a specified time frame.
Customers can then use their free bets to place sports bets, including horse racing and other sports.
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