RORY CLEARY, fresh from finishing top flat jockey jockey at the Galway Festival, was on the mark again at Tipperary last night when guiding Nic’s Colleen to a smooth success in the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Handicap.

KEVIN PRENDERGAST’S Defi can win a fascinating little four-runner Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Tipperary this evening.

KEVIN PRENDERGAST’S Defi can win a fascinating little four-runner Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Tipperary this evening.

A BALLYBRIT virgin, my first foray at the Galway Races was akin to a blinkered nag staggering shoeless at a donkey derby.

CHARLES BYRNES, a trainer with a terrific record on the big occasion, did it again at the first stage of Galway last night when Rockstown Boy finished late and fast to decisively land the GPT Handicap.

DEFI, the most experienced horse in the field - along with outsider, Mickey Shoes - gets the nap to take the GPT Access Equipment EBF Maiden at the first stage of the Galway Festival this evening.