Horse Racing Ireland tweak next year's fixture schedule with Ryder Cup at Adare Manor

HRI have released 2027 fixtures plan with Listowel Harvest Festival starting and finishing a day later than usual

Love Me Tender and Harry Cobden win the Thorn Plant Hire Beginners Steeplechase at Listowel on Thursday. Picture: Healy Racing.

Next year’s Listowel Harvest Festival will start and finish a day later than usual due to the Ryder Cup being staged at Adare Manor.

The seven-day marathon normally starts on a Sunday and ends the following Saturday but next year the meeting will start on Monday, September 20 and finish the following Sunday, on September 26, the HRI said on Thursday as they published a fixtures plan for 2027.