“I’M a natural lightweight”, quipped Robbie McNamara, very much tongue-in-cheek, after the 19-year-old had powered Dermot Weld’s Majestic Concorde to victory in the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.

A Dublin pub will be turned into an impromptu voting centre this week when US Democrats living in Ireland ballot for the party’s Presidential nominee.