Punchestown Festival 2022 Betting

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The Punchestown Festival is a five-day celebration of Irish National Hunt racing at it’s very finest and brings the curtain down on the Irish Jumps Racing season each year with almost a race for race repeat of the Cheltenham Festival which will have taken place a month or so earlier in England.

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Punchestown Betting Markets

Betting at the Punchestown Festival is frenetic over all of its 39 races spread across five wonderful days of top-class racing. With 11 more races than the famous Cheltenham Festival, and spread perfectly over an extra day than the March showpiece, it truly is a unique occasion for local trainers and jockeys to be a part of. Likewise, the same duly applies to those brave enough from the UK and France to venture over and tackle their foes on Irish home soil.

That makes for competitive betting heats each and every day and with races like the famous Punchestown Gold Cup, the Champion Novice Hurdle, the Champion Chase, the Stayers Hurdle and the Racing Post Champion Bumper. It’s easy to see why Punchestown is only usually eclipsed by the Cheltenham Festival itself in terms of National Hunt Racing betting activity, with all of the best horse racing betting sites offering odds on each race.

Punchestown Ante-Post Betting

Markets for the key Punchestown Festival races will open with bookmakers usually in the immediate aftermath of the Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals. Many of the best horses will run at all three of these events - with some top horses landing the coveted double or treble - so the best bookmakers out there will wait to know the results of these events before pricing up the same horses to take the spoils at the Punchestown equivalent. Consider this when drawing up your horse racing betting strategy.


Frequently Asked Questions

When is the Punchestown Festival 2019?

What time does the Punchestown Festival start?

When does Punchestown finish?


Punchestown Festival 2019 Grade 1 Races Schedule

Tuesday 30th April - Champion Chase Day

Wednesday 1st May - Punchestown Gold Cup Day

Thursday 2nd May - Champion Stayers Hurdle Day

Friday 3rd May - Champion Hurdle Day

Saturday 4th May - Festival Family Day

When is Next Year’s Punchestown Festival?

The Punchestown Festival 2020 will take place between Tuesday the 28th April and Saturday 2nd May, 2020.

Punchestown Festival Feature Races

Punchestown Festival Tickets

Unlike the Cheltenham Festival the Punchestown Festival rarely sells out even though it will be attended by approximately 125,000 people over the course of 5 days.

Tickets are readily available through the official Punchestown Festival website and vary from between €30 per ticket to €50 per ticket for some of the more exclusive enclosures.

The event is a huge social draw and plenty of hospitality options are available and the betting options at the track include the usual ring of bookmakers, on-course betting shop and the Irish Tote.

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