Galway Race Committee yesterday announced that Guinness has renewed its festival sponsorship for a further five years to the value of €1million.

Shark Hanlon’s Hidden Cyclone came back to something approaching his best form when storming away with the Southampton Goodwill Chase at Listowel yesterday.

DERMOT WELD wasted no time smashing the record for the number of winners trained at the Galway festival when Rainforest Magic took his score for the week to twelve in the opening Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Ballybrit last night.

I was absolutely thrilled with No One Tells Me’s run in the Galway Hurdle on Thursday. She really ran an absolute cracker to be fifth in what I think was a great race.

Rising star Joseph O'Brien bagged another big Galway winner as he finished with a wet sail on the Charlie Swan-trained Rajik to land the feature Guinness Handicap on the fifth day of the festival meeting.

GALWAY Race Committee yesterday announced a host of new sponsors, at the launch of the Summer Festival Meeting 2010.

Pat Smullen notched a brace on day six of the Listowel Harvest Festival when guiding Rose Hip (13-2) to victory in the feature Guinness Handicap today.

DANNY MULLINS, the rising young star of flat racing, drove the Paul Cashman-trained 20-1 shot Glitter Baby to a decisive victory in the featured Guinness Handicap at Galway last night.

The fifth day of the Galway Races takes place this evening, with a seven-race card due to get underway at 5.10pm.

Kieren Fallon showed he has lost none of his finesse in the saddle with a last-to-first success aboard Settigano in the Guinness Handicap at Listowel.

DERMOT WELD saddled the 3,000th winner of his career in Ireland at Galway last night when Clearing The Water took the 1759 EBF Maiden before a crowd of 28,341.

RORY CLEARY, fresh from his victory aboard Palace Star in Tuesday night’s McDonogh Handicap, added another big-race success to his portfolio when partnering High Priestess to take the featured Guinness Handicap at Galway last night.

ATHLUMNEY LAD, despite the fact Michael Kinane will surely put up about 3lbs over-weight, could be the answer to the featured Guinness Handicap at Galway this evening.

CLOONE RIVER, second in the race a year earlier to Sabadilla, went one better when powering to victory in the Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit yesterday.

FEATURE event at Galway tonight is the Guinness Handicap and, like all the main events at the meeting, this looks very difficult to solve.

PAT VERLING struck a blow for the smaller man when training and riding Sabadilla to a tremendous success in yesterday’s Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit, before an attendance of 37,394.

POPULAR Wexford handler Paul Nolan enjoyed far and away his biggest success to date when Say Again produced a smooth performance to take the Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit yesterday, before an all-time record crowd of 38,882.