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Thu, 28/07/2022 - 02:30
The Galway Hurdle has been very good to me in recent years, but unfortunately, there’s no room at the inn for me on any of Willie’s runners this year, so I’ll be watching on from the sidelines.
Thu, 28/07/2022 - 02:30
WITH four winners in the last six renewals, the first place to start when studying the Guinness Galway Hurdle (5.05) is with the Willie Mullins horses – and he’ll have one fifth of the field running for him today, with four of the 20 runners.
Wed, 27/07/2022 - 19:41
John ‘Shark’ Hanlon was celebrating at Galway on Wednesday evening when Hewick survived dramatic late interference from a loose horse to hold on and land the feature Tote Galway Plate.
Wed, 27/07/2022 - 14:00
The 2022 Galway Races takes place next week, at full capacity for the first time in three years. 130,000 fans are expected to descend on Ballybrit for the festival. With over €2 million in prize-money up for grabs over 49 races, here is all you need to know.
Wed, 27/07/2022 - 02:30
The famous green-and-gold silks of JP McManus have been carried to victory a number of times in the Galway Plate (6.40), and he throws four darts at the board again – including 2020 winner Early Doors.
Wed, 27/07/2022 - 02:30
The Plate. One of the few races left in the calendar known so simply.
Wed, 27/07/2022 - 02:30
The quality of the Tote Galway Plate has changed immeasurably over the past decade, with a stellar field of 22 going to post for the €270,000 prize on day three at Ballybrit.
Tue, 26/07/2022 - 19:51
THEY often say to pray when all else fails and divine intervention did Brian Duffy no harm after Magic Chegaga (6/1) overcame travel problems en route to Galway before landing the €120,000 Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap at Ballybrit yesterday.
Tue, 26/07/2022 - 02:30
Stradivarius (Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup – Today)
Tue, 26/07/2022 - 02:30
ADO McGUINNESS has been the man to follow in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap as the Dublin trainer aims for a famous four-timer in today’s feature at Ballybrit.
Tue, 26/07/2022 - 02:30
The style, the feathered -sequinned-towering -blooming hats, the fake tan, the make-up, the nails and fresh blow-drys – it would bring a tear to your eye.
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 22:06
If he were alive today, I’d love to send Albert Einstein the Galway race card to see if he could figure out today’s feature race, the Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap (6.40).
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 19:52
IT has been like a stone in his shoe since he joined the weighing room as a teenager, but Patrick Mullins finally got his hands on the prestigious Connacht Hotel Handicap when making it 16th-time lucky aboard Echoes In Rain (11/4 favourite) as the Galway Races kicked off last night.
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 02:30
Just about the last person likely to get stressed about replacing Frankie Dettori on Stradivarius in tomorrow’s Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup is Andrea Atzeni, although even he admits he would not be human if the nerves did not kick in at some stage.
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 02:30
There was a limited attendance at the Galway Festival last year, but at long last, we are back to normal at Ballybrit with restrictions lifted and full crowds expected for the first time since 2019.
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 02:30
This will be my 15th attempt to try and win the most valuable amateur race in the calendar. Like a paper cut in the corner of my mouth, it does niggle. But Sir Gordon Richards needed 28 tries to win the Epsom Derby, I tell myself, so on we go again.
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 02:30
Ado McGuinness may be a Group One trainer now, with the dual top-flight success of A Case Of You, but his business model remains based on picking off big pots in prestigious handicaps.
Mon, 25/07/2022 - 02:30
There’s nothing quite like the Galway Races and it would be fitting if Dermot Weld, the ‘King of Ballybrit’, kicked things off in style today.
Sun, 24/07/2022 - 02:30
When John Hanlon was utilised by his under 14 hurling selectors for his considerable height and heft at full-forward to cause carnage for the likes of teammate and now fellow trainer, the Cheltenham Festival and English greyhound Derby-winning Paul Hennessy to pick up the pieces, he inherited the sobriquet by which he is far better known now.
Sat, 23/07/2022 - 02:30
Seven days of madness awaits from Monday onwards at the Galway Races so it's probably only natural that things should take a bit of a pause this weekend as a Ballybrit storm looms around the corner.