A CROWD of over 3,000 racegoers turned out in force to witness the return of banks racing to Knockanard after an absence of approximately 70 years, with the day surpassing even the highest hopes that the organisers could possibly have had for the day.

“It went fantastic,” landowner Jimmy O’Leary proudly declared of an idea that he had over four years earlier to remember the late Pat and Bill Moore which came to fruition last Sunday.