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January 28, 2008

Ballymore Sponsorship for Punchestown Festival

 

Ballymore Properties have announced their sponsorship of the added fifth day of the Punchestown Festival.

The two-and-a-half-mile Ballymore 25th Anniversary Hurdle  will be the feature event of the Saturday racing. Worth a total of €220,000, this will be the most valuable handicap hurdle ever run in Britain and Ireland.

The Ballymore sponsorship brings the total prize fund for the Punchestown festival to €3,000,000.

The Punchestown National Hunt Festival will take place from April 22nd to the 26th.