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.

What a start it was for the Galway festival with an increase in attendance figures on the Monday from last year.

I have said it more than once here that you just have to take what racing throws at you. It’s a great leveller and some days you get a kick in the teeth but on others things work out well.

THE past week has been an extremely eventful one. Overall, it has been very successful but with just a bit of luck it might have been even better.

THE Aidan O’Brien-trained Zoffany bounced back from his Coventry Stakes defeat at Royal Ascot to justify 4/7 favouritism in the listed Golden Fleece 2-Y-0 Stakes, last night’s feature at Leopardstown.

ON a low-key, pre-Royal Ascot weekend, Aidan O’Brien and Johnny Murtagh doubled-up with two of Ballydoyle’s lesser-lights, Emperor Hadrian and Ferdinand Magellan, at Navan last night.

It never ceases to amaze me the crowds they get at race meetings west of the Shannon. I was in Ballinrobe on Tuesday evening and I couldn’t get over it.

STUNNING VIEW can get us away to a solid start by landing the 8-runner radissonhotel.com EBF Maiden at the first stage of the Galway Festival tonight.

ROYAL County Star, currently in the form of his life, can complete a hat-trick in the Dromahane Chase at Cork tonight.

WE’RE hoping that Tatenen can continue the great run of our novice chasers in the Intercasino.co.uk Molyneaux Novice Chase at Aintree today.

KALDERON made it two from two over fences when capturing the Grade 3 Kilbegnet Novice Chase for Tom Hogan and Paul Carberry at Roscommon yesterday.

DREAMY GENT, partnered for the first time by very much in-form Barry Geraghty, can land the nap in the Kilbegnet EBF Novice Chase at Roscommon today.

ONCE-raced Apt gets the nod to land the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Galway this evening.

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PHILIP FENTON’S Caim Hill is the nap choice to complete a four-timer in the Cunningham Higgins Specialist Cars Novice Hurdle at Galway this evening.

Rookie rider Paul Townend was the toast of Ballybrit as Indian Pace gave him the biggest victory of his fledgling career in the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

A future star of the National Hunt game was born at Ballybrit yesterday when 17-year-old Paul Townend guided Indian Pace to a thrilling victory in the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

Rookie rider Paul Townend was the toast of Ballybrit as Indian Pace gave him the biggest victory of his fledgling career in the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

JOHN KIELY’S Indian Pace should go close in the Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit this afternoon and gets a sporting nap vote.

PROFOUND BEAUTY has a leading chance in the Listed Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

DREAMY Gent made an impressive chasing debut in the Martin Tyrrell Auctioneers Beginners Chase at Ballinrobe last night.

DREAMY GENT is napped to make a winning debut over fences in the Martin Tyrrell Actioneers’ Beginners Chase at Ballinrobe this evening.

Blue Bajan staked an early claim for top jumping honours next winter by showing a terrific turn of foot to win the totepool Swinton Handicap Hurdle at Haydock.

SHANE JACKSON, one of the rising young stars of Irish racing, gave Dark Bolero a copybook drive to land the featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

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BREAKING SILENCE, a very costly failure at Tralee, gets the nap to redress the balance in the Kevin McManus Beginners Chase at Listowel today.

TONY MARTIN’S Leg Spinner toyed with his rivals on the way to landing the williamhill.ie Handicap Hurdle at Galway yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

CONNA CASTLE, despite the fact Davy Russell will have to put up a couple of pounds overweight, is the choice to land the William Hill Galway Plate at Ballybrit this afternoon.

TODAY’s Galway Plate is a cracking contest, which is going to severely test the skills of punters.