GALWAY FESTIVAL 2019 [JULY 29th -- AUG 4th] -- DAY ONE MONDAY

DAY ONE - MONDAY
The 2019 Galway festival is a week long feast of racing, across both codes of racing and a good excuse to visit one of the great Irish venues and surrounding area, if you never been please put it on your list of places to see, it's lovely and the Irish people are second to none. 

The opening day actually doesn't start till the evening with the first race (Novice Hurdle) of the meeting due off at 5:20pm. The feature race tonight being the Connacht Hotel Handicap due off around 7:40pm. 

Once again this season we will continue to focus on the horses from trainer Dermot Weld and we will continue to track his progress this week though we might also offer one or two other selections in particular the feature races if no Weld runner is declared. And NEW for this season we intend to follow the success of JP O'Brien who often has a nice priced winner and seems to have taken well to training and has the ability to be as good as his father in time.

Going -- NH - Good             Flat - Good to Yielding.

Weather Forecast -- A high of 16C with a chance of a few showers later. Suggest you take a mac ... or stay in the bars.

DAY ONE SELECTIONS;
5:20 Galwaybayhotel.com and Galmont.com Novice Hurdle.
2m 130y [14 Runners]
WINNER TAKES ITALL [JP O'Brien]  3rd 7/1

5:55 Easyfix Handicap Hurdle.

2m 130y [23 Runners]
LINGER [JP O.Brien]   WON 9/4f

6:25 - Claregalwayhotel.ie Irish EBF Maiden (2yo).
7f [8 Runners].
SHEKHAM [D Weld].   2nd 3/1

7:05 - Claytonhotelgalway.ie Handicap
7f  [18 Runners]

DEIRA SURPRISE   [JP O.Brien].   13th 16/1

FANCY FOOTINGS   [JP O.Brien].   14th 8/1

SYRENA  [JP O.Brien].   2nd 7/1

7:40 - Connacht Hotel (Q.R.) Handicap (70-100) (Premier Handicap)

2m 179y  [23 Runners]

This is today's feature contest worth 59k euro and Dermot Weld has a runner tonight with DALTON HIGHWAY [2nd 20/1] a winner here in 2016 and has won his most recent start over 2m so should be ready to run a big race. JP O'Brien runs too as well and has CHESS GRAND MASTER  [19th 33/1] as well as SHAKESPEAR'SGALLERY  [10th 11/1].

8:10 - Eventus Handicap [3yo]

1m 4f 84y  [11 Runners]

SWITCH AROUND  [D Weld]   Non Runner.

A WAVE OF THE SEA  [JP O'Brien]   4th 6/1

MILLSWYN  [JP O'Brien]   2nd 6/1

8:40 - Monami Construction Flat Race
2m 130y  [13 Runners]
RISK FACTOR  [JP O'Brien].   2nd 5/4f

Racing, Guinness, Women, Great Craic ... Life is good.

Day One results and stats, will appear here during Monday night and we have plenty more to see and do yet before the week is out. Plenty of 2nds and just the one winner for JP, still it's only the opening day.

D Weld   2pts staked today    returns - Nil
p/l for week   -2pts
JP O'Brien   10pts staked today     returns - 3.25pts
p/l for week   -6.25pts
Overall   week p/l to date -8.25pts

Results will appear here on Monday evening along with 'Day Two' to be published shortly, we are also racing at 'Glorious' Goodwood too this week starting on Tuesday, so two top class meetings to enjoy all week long.