An otherwise run-of-the-mill meeting produced a very special moment at Tramore Racecourse last night as jockey Andrew McNamara, one of the true gentlemen of the weigh-room, bowed out aboard a winner on his final ride in the saddle.

The Guinness Galway Hurdle is the feature on day four of the Galway Festival and favourite Quick Jack should take a world of beating.

Riviera Sun might be capable of giving Barry Geraghty his first win as retained rider for J P McManus in the Roscommon Rated Novice Hurdle tonight.

Bryan Cooper followed-up Monday’s win on The Game Changer with a superb treble in sunny Roscommon last night, providing Gigginstown House Stud with a double on Gangster and Cape Glory before following-up on Phangio for Colin Bowe.

Kilavullen-based owner/trainer TJ Nagle appears to have an outstanding prospect on his hands in the form of Just A Par as the son of the Grand Lodge-sired stallion Island House destroyed the opposition under Richard O’Dea in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s well-attended Galway Hunt point-to-point fixture at Dartfield outside Loughrea.