This year's Galway festival is off with a bang, and although Dermot Weld failed to find a winner he had two seconds including a 20/1 shot in the feature race [Dalton Highway] which got us a return on the place markets. JP O'Brien got us off the mark on the opening day but still slightly behind for day one, it is still early days. The second day is another evening meeting and will begin at 5:20pm with a 2m Novice Hurdle. The feature race tonight being the Colm Quinn BMW sponsored Handicap over a mile and that gets underway at 7.40pm.
As mentioned on day one as per recent seasons 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 -- Good to Yielding (NH) and Good (Flat).
Weather Forecast -- A high of 18C with a chance of a few showers during the course of the evening.
DAY TWO SELECTIONS;
17:20 Colm Quinn Bmw Novice Hurdle (listed)
2m 110y [5 Runners]
FINE BRUNELLO [JP O'Brien] 4th 10/3.
17:55 Latin Quarter Beginners Chase
2m 2f 54y [18 Runners]
JACK DILLINGER [JP O'Brien] 6th 12/1.
7f [12 Runners]
AZILA [D Weld] 5th 2/1f.
19:05 Caulfield Industrial Irish Ebf Maiden
7f [19 Runners].
TRANCHEE [D Weld] 8th 15/2.
19:40 Colm Quinn Bmw Mile Handicap
1m 123y [18 Runners]
This is our featured race for the evening on day two, each of our trainers will be represented it appears with JASSAAR [D Weld] and NUMERIAN [JP O'Brien]. Jassaar [11th 5/1] is a well bred 4yo gelding for owner Hamdam Al Maktoum and won well at the Curragh then runner up in a similar contest so clearly in good order and might be strong in the better even in a large field such as this. Numerian [6th 9/2] is a 3yo who ran fifth in the Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot latest and back off his 9lb lower mark here should be right there.
20:10 Caulfield Industrial Handicap
1m 123y [18 Runners]
SCORPIAN BLACK 1st Reserve [D Weld]. NON RUNNER
20:40 Caulfieldindustrial.com Handicap
7f [16 Runners].No selections for either trainer here.
D Weld 4pts staked today Returns today - 1pts.
p/l for week -5.00 after Day 2
JP O'Brien 3pts staked today Returns today - 0pts.
p/l for week -9.75 after Day 2
Overall week p/l to date -14.75 after Day 2
Results to update later tonight, and Day Three featuring the Galway Plate should be ready by then, along with some info from Goodwood this week. I hope you will have a great week of quality racing.
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