Betting preview for the Summer Festival There’s nothing in racing quite like the Galway Summer Festival. Run over a mammoth seven days, the week features a mix of flat and jump contests and a total prize fund of over £1.7m. All of the top trainers will be there. So too... View Article
Pat Smullen is a multiple champion jockey in Ireland and has won many of the biggest races in the world, yet this week he would not dream of being anywhere else than Galway. The unique and mildly chaotic seven-days of racing on Ireland’s west coast is unmatched anywhere in the... View Article
Trainer Dermot Weld has had a very quiet Galway Festival by his standards, but Tandem and Show Court look to hold major claims of providing the Rosewell handler with a big handicap double on this evening’s card. Tandem runs in the 2m handicap hurdle that opening’s proceedings on an ultra-competitive... View Article
The Galway Hurdle is the feature and big betting race on day four of the Galway Festival (16.45), and with Coral paying five places Bayan looks decent each-way value in a wide-open contest. Trained by Gordon Elliott, the six-year-old has won five of his 15 starts over the obstacles and... View Article
The big betting race on day three of the Galway Festival is the Galway Plate (17.30), and Rule The World looks to hold leading claims in a typically fierce and wide-open renewal of the 2m 6f feature contest. Trained by the popular Mouse Morris, the gelding has some top class... View Article
King Of Rooks wasn’t seen to best effect last time out, but had previously looked a top notch prospect, and can confirm that view by landing the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes over the flying 5f at Goodwood (15.45). The Richard Hannon trained colt shaped with bags of promise on his... View Article
Vastonea looks decent value to land the Topaz Mile Handicap on the second day of the Galway Festival (18.50) for a third time. The Kevin Prendergast trained gelding first won the race in 2012 when beating Pintura by 1/2 a length off a mark of 89, and finished a decent... View Article
Ted Veale looks weighted to provide trainer Tony Martin with back-to-back successes in the valuable Connacht Hotel Handicap over 2m at Galway today (18.50). Martin saddled Quick Jack to land a gamble in the race 12 months ago, and Ted Veal has a similar profile to his stablemate and carries... View Article
Gelding can provide trainer Tony Martin with another success in the opening race on day five of the Festival
Gordon Elliott's progressive gelding on a handy mark in Galway Hurdle on day four of the Festival