CORAL has signed a deal with Punchestown that will see the bookmaker sponsor at the track’s spring festival for the first time.

The €100,000 Coral Handicap Hurdle will be run on the final day of the 2016 festival on Saturday, April 30th. Last year the two and a half mile race was won by the J.P. McManus-owned Sort It Out ridden by Mark Walsh. Coral will also sponsor all races (bar one) at Punchestown on October 12th this year.