Ruby Walsh on 39-length Listowel win: Judging pace an art everyone gets wrong from time to time

The 'strange times' continue but the races were pretty much the same

Costalotmore wins Wednesday’s bumper at Listowel by a whopping 39 lenghts after being given too much leeway by the other jockeys in the race. Picture: Healy Racing

The 162nd edition of the Listowel races draws to close on the banks of the river Feale this afternoon in a much different way to every other edition that has gone before it.

Never has it had such little impact on the local or surrounding areas, never before has the town been so quiet while the races where on and never before has the place not needed to be cleaned when race week finished.