PRIZE money for the four-day Shannon Airport Christmas Racing Festival at Limerick Racecourse will be over €450,000 this year and management are hoping to see 40,000 racegoers attend.

At a media launch in Limerick this week, the track’s outgoing manager Conor O’Neill described the four-day fixture as “the premier National Hunt meeting in Munster annually” and noted that recent graduates of the meeting included Faugheen, Martello Tower, Gilgamboa and Weapons Amnesty.