Horse Racing Tips: Listowel preview, predictions and best bets for Tuesday September 23

Listowel’s harvest festival reaches a pivotal afternoon, and the programme builds towards a fascinating centrepiece at 3.50. The Edmund & Josie Whelan Memorial Listowel Stakes, a Listed mile on turf, draws a compact but revealing field where ground and pace are likely to be decisive. Read on to find the best tips and predictions in addition to the latest betting offers for Listowel racing on Listowel Tuesday September 23.

Horse Racing betting tips: Listowel Tuesday September 23 tips

Can a proven mud-lover turn Listowel’s feature into a stamina test?

• Norwalk Havoc is two-from-two on heavy and a Listed winner over 1m on that ground.
• Shane Foley shows 6 winners from 55 rides in the last 14 days (11%).
• Cristal Clere owns the highest rating (98) but drops from 1m5f to a sharper mile.

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Conditions promise to play a central role, with several runners boasting contrasting preferences and varying degrees of recent sharpness. Cristal Clere, who arrives on a mark of 98 and was placed over 1m5f last time, drops back to a mile that could test his toe. Evening Blossom, Soft Winds and Mataariki form a Joseph Patrick O’Brien trio with different profiles: one coming back from a Killarney Listed reversal, another fresh from a Listed third and the third holding steady place credentials after a Gowran handicap win earlier in the year.

From Jessica Harrington’s team come Norwalk Havoc, a horse explicitly described as a mud-lover, and the progressive three-year-old Lavender Breeze, who steps out of maidens into much deeper waters. Noli Timere and Touted Plan represent three-year-old depth from other yards, each with an angle but also clear questions at this level. It is a feature where positioning, surface affinity and the ability to lengthen when others tread water could decide everything.

Here at bettingtips4you we back clarity over clutter. We publish a single selection per event because precision matters more than volume; readers know exactly what we fancy, and accountability is built in, allowing a clean evaluation of returns over time. For Listowel’s headline act, our strongest view is simple.

Best bet of the day at Listowel: Norwalk Havoc to win the 3.50

Norwalk Havoc fits this race like a glove if the ground rides as testing as expected. The profile is unambiguous: a 97-rated specialist in deep conditions who landed a Listed contest over a mile on heavy at Leopardstown last October, and who is two from two when the mud is flying. The recent Galway run in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile reads better than it first appears; the principals dominated from the front and the surface was quicker than suits him on just his second start of the campaign.

Prior to that, he contested a Leopardstown Group 3 over 7f on soft, which was likely sharp enough. Taken together, those two spins look like conditioning runs with this very week in mind. The yard has history in this race, having lifted the last two editions with types who did not sparkle at Galway; the inference is that the team often target this occasion once the ground turns. With Shane Foley booked and operating at 11% over the last fortnight, the partnership has current momentum even if stable figures overall are modest in the same window.

Assessing the opposition strengthens the case. Cristal Clere, for all his admirable 98 rating, shaped as though a stiffer test suited him and this sharper mile might find him out late. Evening Blossom, on 96, came up short in a Listed race at Killarney and may again find one too streetwise if the emphasis is on slog rather than speed. Soft Winds, rated 94 and a good third in Listed company on the latest start, is respected and is preferred by Dylan Browne McMonagle, yet now meets a rival proven in even deeper going. Mataariki keeps running solidly in stakes races and brings place claims, but must bridge a small class gap in the mud.

Noli Timere, who strung together a maiden win and a successful handicap debut, has a heavy-ground question to answer and a recent draw that did not help. Lavender Breeze climbs from maidens and faces a steep rise, while Touted Plan’s profile suggests this assignment could simply arrive too soon. When filtered through surface dependency and proven Listed-mile ability on testing ground, Norwalk Havoc’s credentials arrange themselves neatly at the top of the pile.

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