About Irish Champions Festival 

About irish Champions Festival 

Irish Champions Festival is the showcase of the Irish Flat season. It’s a sporting and social event like no other, combining history, glamour, excitement and prestige to provide a sporting spectacle like now other.

It is one of the leading international racing festivals, now in its ninth year, this special event is run over two days at two of Ireland’s leading racecourses, the newly redeveloped Leopardstown, and The Curragh. Featuring prize money of €4.5 million, the year’s renewal boasts a strong programme, including six Group 1 races and the final Classic of the Irish Flat season. While the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes and the Coolmore America ‘Justify’ Matron Stakes lead the way at Leopardstown, the Comer Group International Irish St Leger, the Flying Five Stakes and two of the best juvenile races of the year, the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes and the Moyglare Stud Stakes feature at The Curragh. Champions Festival will again attract many of the world’s best racehorses, owners, trainers, and jockeys. A festival not to be missed.